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UK to stop disclosing identity of stock market short sellers, FT reports
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on October 27, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on October 27, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
The UK FCA plans to anonymize short sellers' identities, publishing only aggregated short positions. This aims to enhance privacy for investors.
(Reuters) -Britain's Financial Conduct Authority will announce new rules under which short sellers will no longer have their identities disclosed in public, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
The financial watchdog is expected to shift to publishing the total short positions of investors betting against a company's share price on an anonymized and aggregated basis, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
((Reporting by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler))
Short selling is the practice of selling a security that the seller does not own, with the intention of buying it back later at a lower price to profit from the decline in its value.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is a regulatory body in the UK responsible for overseeing financial markets and protecting consumers by ensuring that financial firms operate fairly and transparently.
Market regulation involves rules and laws that govern financial markets to ensure fairness, transparency, and efficiency, protecting investors and maintaining market integrity.
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