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PASLA conference: Australian regulators under fire

03 March 2010

Global Investor/isf brings you all the top news from the 7th annual PASLA conference in Hong Kong.

Australian regulators have been criticised for the short selling bans they put in place in the wake of the global financial crisis and for the onerous restrictions that still exist today.

Delegates at the PASLA/RMA conference on Asian securities lending in Hong Kong were told that the Australian market is operating at a disadvantage to its neighbouring Asian...


 

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