PASLA was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1995 and is an association of firms that are active in the business of borrowing and/or lending securities in Asian markets.
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PASLA provides a collective voice and an industry consensus on issues that affect the development of the securities lending business.
PASLA works with regional regulators and exchanges to assist in the further development of the securities lending business.
The Bursa Malaysia, a PASLA member, is pleased to announce the release of their updated Approved Securities (“AS”) list effective 4 July 2025.
For the full list of 445 stocks, of which 360 stocks are Shariah-compliant*, and more information, please see the below links.
https://www.bursamalaysia.com/trade/post_trade/securities_borrowing_lending/sbl_eligible_securities
https://www.bursamalaysia.com/trade/post_trade/securities_borrowing_lending/sbl_circulars
*as per the list of Shariah-compliant Securities issued by the Shariah Advisory Council of the Securities Commission Malaysia effective 30 May 2025.
The HKIRD has announced with immediate effect, that the filing requirement for Return of Stock Borrowing Transactions has been revised from a semi annual to an annual basis.
For more details, please see the attached link (and the provided PDF).
A report from Taiwan Focus mentions that the Financial Supervisory Commission has removed measures to limit short selling.
"In a statement, the FSC, the top financial regulators in Taiwan, said on Friday that it has decided to remove measures to curb short selling, effective Monday, ending more than one month of restrictions.
After U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs on April 2 against countries that enjoy a trade surplus with the United States, the FSC imposed the measures on April 7 to counter volatility on the equity market.
Among the measures implemented, the FSC cut the limit of intraday sell orders for borrowed securities from 30 percent of the average trading volume of the stock over the previous 30 trading sessions to only 3 percent.
Now, the ratio of average trading will return to 30 percent from Monday, the FSC said"
Previously announced short selling measures have been extended again according to various reports.
Currently, there has been no confirmation on the duration of this latest extension.
PASLA, and our Taiwan Working Group, will look to update our member firms with additional information as it becomes available.
The FSC has announced a 1 week extension to the temporary short selling measures that were due to expire Friday 11th April.
The information on the FSC website is currently in Chinese only
https://www.fsc.gov.tw/ch/home.jsp?id=96&parentpath=0,2&mcustomize=news_view.jsp&dataserno=202504120001&aplistdn=ou=news,ou=multisite,ou=chinese,ou=ap_root,o=fsc,c=tw&dtable=News&secureweb=OUTLOOK
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Membership is open to any organisation that is a regular borrower or lender of securities or regularly enters into repo transactions. The Board may decide to confer honorary member status on institutions that do not meet this definition.
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