BaFin’s shorting ban hits liquidity, but not fatal
Germany’s Federal Financing Supervisory Authority (BaFin) banned uncovered short-selling of euro-zone government bonds and their CDS by German banks as of midnight last night, raising fears that liquidity in covered bonds would be hit and a reopening of the benchmark market delayed.
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