The UK Government has introduced the Short Selling Regulations 2024 to Parliament, confirming for the first time that it will continue the work initiated by the previous government on short selling.

AIMA has been actively engaged in consultations on these regulations for several years and will continue to work closely with the UK Treasury and the FCA.

AIMA CEO Jack Inglis commented: “The current requirement for individual investment managers to disclose their short positions publicly has long acted as a barrier to greater trading activity in the UK given how it opened the door to copycat trading by a firm’s competitors. We believe that replacing the ill-conceived requirement with aggregated information on short positions at issuer level will increase trading activity on UK equities markets to benefit investors and the wider UK economy.”  

Learn more about AIMA's advocacy work on short selling regulation here.