On February 21, the European Union adopted a regulation on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps. The regulations are intended to introduce common EU transparency requirements and harmonize the powers that regulators can use in exceptional situations where there is a serious threat to financial stability. As we discussed in an October 2010 post, the regulation was initially proposed by the European Commission in a few years ago.
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