Dutch market regulator the Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has incorrectly published the details of hundreds of previously private short-selling trades by international hedge funds, including bets against Dutch banks by George Soros. The error means details of hedge fund short trades going back to 2012 were published on AFM’s website earlier this week before being taken down. European market rules introduced after the financial crisis require hedge funds to report their short positions ‒ bets that a company’s shares will fall in value ‒ to regulators. But only those that are larger than 0.5 percent of a company’s...