UK: delayed disclosure of liquidity support - FSA consultation

The UK's Financial Services Authority has published a consultation paper in which it proposes amending the Disclosure and Transparency Rules (DTR) in order to clarify that, in a limited set of circumstances, financial institutions admitted to trading on a regulated market and in receipt of liquidity support from the Bank of England can delay disclosure of this fact.

There is unlikely to be unanimous support for this proposal, not least because of the argument that the proposal (which is clearly designed to support financial stability) undermines the transparency of the market. The FSA nevertheless states in its consultation paper that its proposal is consistent with Article 3 of the European Market Abuse Directive (2003/124/EC) which recognises certain circumstances in which delayed disclosure can be justified. These circumstances are reflected in the current version of DTR 2.5. 

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