short sale

Definitions over time (1)

20/07/2017 – 01/01/2019 Article 2, Regulation (EU) 2017/1131 Scope: Whole act

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

‘short sale’ means any sale by an MMF of an instrument which the MMF does not own at the time of entering into the agreement to sell, including such sale where, at the time of entering into the agreement to sell, the MMF has borrowed or agreed to borrow the instrument for delivery at settlement, not including: a sale by either party under a repurchase agreement where one party has agreed to sell to the other a security at a specified price with a commitment from the other party to sell the security back at a later date at another specified price; or an entry into a futures contract or other derivative contract where it is agreed to sell securities at a specified price at a future date;

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