The UK’s Financial Services will adopt a new disclosure regime for Contracts for Difference, the FSA said Tuesday.The new rules, which will take effect June 1, cover financial instruments, which give a legal right to acquire shares or have a similar economic effect to shares. Under the new regime, shares and such financial instruments will […]
The UK’s Financial Services has published rules that will implement a new disclosure regime for contracts for difference.The FSA published a consultation paper about CFDs in November 2007, and announced plans to implement a general disclosure regime for long CFD positions back in July. The goal is to address concerns about voting rights and corporate […]
Canadian securities regulators have granted relief from certain regulatory requirements that will enable the distribution of contracts for difference (CFDs) to ordinary retail investors.A CFD is a derivative that allows investors to obtain economic exposure to the price movement of an underlying financial instrument, such as a share, index, market sector, currency, treasury or commodity, […]
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