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European Parliament votes to ban “naked” credit default swaps on sovereign debt and restrict “naked” short sales

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • European Union
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  • November 28 2011

On November 15, 2011, the European Parliament adopted a regulation banning any person or legal entity in the European Union (“EU entities”) from entering into “naked,” or uncovered, credit default swaps (“CDS”) on sovereign debt and restricting uncovered short sales on shares and sovereign debt (the “Regulation”) after November 1, 2012