SEC moves to close loopholes in short-selling rule
James Langton
Investment Executive, 14 June 2007
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to take additional steps that it believes will close loopholes in its short-selling rule, Regulation SHO, further reducing persistent failures to deliver stock within the standard settlement period.
The SEC voted to adopt final amendments to its rules that, it says, will further reduce fails to deliver in certain equity securities. Regulation SHO, which became fully effective in January 2005, provides a regulatory framework governing short sales of securities.
