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On Tuesday May 18, 2010, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) temporarily prohibited naked short sales of debt securities of euro zone countries admitted to trading on a domestic exchange on the regulated market as well as naked short-selling transactions in shares of the following companies from the financial sector:
Aareal Bank AG, Allianz SE, Generali Deutschland Holding AG, Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche Börse AG, Deutsche Postbank AG, Hannover Rückversicherung AG, MLP AG, Münchener Rückversicherungsgesellschaft AG.
On May 19, 2010, BaFin has published FAQ lists "Frequent Questions concerning General Decrees of May 18, 2010“ in this context.
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Please find further information about incident handling in the Emergency Playbook published on the Eurex webpage under Support --> Emergencies and safeguards. Detailed information about incident communication, market re-opening procedures and best practices for order and trade reconciliation can be found in the chapters 4.2, 4.3 and 4.5, respectively. Concrete information for the respective incident will be published during the incident via newsboard message.
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