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US short-sale disclosure requirements proposed by SEC for institutional investment managers

( February 25, 2022, 18:25 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed requiring institutional investment managers to report short sale-related information on a monthly basis to the agency, which would then make public aggregated data about large short positions for each individual security. Broker-dealers who now have to identify each sale order that they effect as either “long,” “short,” or “short-exempt” would also have to mark purchase orders as “buy to cover” if the purchaser has a short position in the same security. Firms also would have to report “buy to cover” information to the Consolidated Audit Trail, a massive warehouse of trades and orders used by regulators to track possibly illegal activity.Statement and documents follow below:...

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