Published: Friday, 2 Nov 2012 | 7:23 AM ET

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Short-sellers around the globe will be unmasked starting on Friday as new European rules come into effect.

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU regulator, has issued new rules on the short-selling of securities indicating that anyone with short positions of greater than 0.2 percent in an EU company’s shares must report it to regulators.

Positions of more than 0.5 percent will be publicly released, naming both the company and the short-seller. Public disclosure is triggered any time that level is hit with each 0.1 percent increase or decrease after that.

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