The UK Financial Services Authority’s proposals to increase disclosure of positions in contracts for difference has so far met with a mixed response.
On the back of concerns that some market players, namely hedge funds, are using CFDs to secretly build up substantial positions in companies, the regulator issued a consultation paper in November in which it proposed two possible frameworks for increasing CFD disclosure. CFDs are a type of equity derivative, which means they fall outside normal equity market disclosure rules.
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