Short selling restrictions

In line with regulatory instructions concerning Short Selling of UK, US, Irish, German and French Financial Stocks and all Australian Financial Instruments, we wish to inform our customers that short selling in the mentioned instruments is temporarily prohibited.

Whilst we do our utmost to enforce these new trading rules, please remember that we provide an execution only service and it is ultimately your responsibility to ensure that you abide with any regulatory restrictions on short selling.

We will endeavour to keep this list up to date but cannot guarantee its accuracy and it should be used as a guide only.

UK
1Aberdeen Asset Management Plc
2Admiral Group Plc.
3Alliance & Leicester Plc
4Alliance Trust Plc
5Arbuthnot Banking Group Plc
6Aviva Plc
7Barclays Plc
8Bradford & Bingley Plc
9Brit Insurance Holdings Plc
10Chesnara Plc
11Close Brothers Group Plc
12European Islamic Investment Bank Plc
13F&C Asset Management Plc
14Friends Provident Plc
15HBOS Plc
16Highway Insurance Group Plc
17HSBC Holdings Plc
18Investec Plc
19Islamic Bank of Britain Plc
20Just Retirement Holdings Plc
21Legal & General Group Plc
22Lloyds TSB Group Plc
23London Scottish Bank Plc
24Novae Group Plc
25Old Mutual Plc
26Prudential Plc
27Rathbone Brothers Plc
28Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc
29RSA Insurance Group Plc
30Schroders Plc
31St James's Place Plc
32Standard Chartered Plc
33Standard Life Plc
34Tawa Plc


Irish
1Bank of Ireland
2Allied Irish Banks
3Irish Life and Permanent
4Anglo Irish Bank Corporation


France
1Allianz
2AXA
3BNP Paribas
4Credit Agricole
5Dexia
6Societe Generale


Germany
1Aareal Bank
2AMB Generali
3Commerzbank
4Deutsche Bank
5Deutsche Borse
6Deutsche Postbank
7Hannover Ruckversicherung
8Hypo Real Estate
9MLP
10Muchener Ruckversicherung-Gesellschaft


Australia
The ASIC has prohibited the shorting of all indices and stocks. For more information please visit http://www.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf