Ensure UK Short Selling Regulation revision receives robust democratic oversight
I would like to ask the Treasury Committee to take a keen interest in the current process of reviewing, with regard to amending, the UK regulation of Short Selling.
In response to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the EU proposed a raft of changes to regulate this practice. Some of these were implemented, but those addressing the massive issue of "naked shorting," were never introduced.
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