Investec Bank plc
UK short positions the FCA published under this name: 4 companies and 10 disclosures between 20 Nov 2015 and 11 Aug 2016. Each figure is that position as a percentage of the company's issued share capital, not a money value, and percentages are not comparable or summable across companies.
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Positions open when the register closed
No position was still open in the register's final snapshot of 10 Jul 2026: every chain below had already fallen back below the 0.5% publication threshold.
Full disclosure history
Every disclosure the archive holds, grouped by company and ordered oldest first within each chain. A chain begins when the position first crossed 0.5% and ends either at the freeze or at the last disclosure before it fell back below the threshold.
MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC
closed 11 Aug 20163 disclosures · peak 2.05% · first 9 Aug 2016 · last 11 Aug 2016
9 Aug 2016 2.05% · 10 Aug 2016 2.01% · 11 Aug 2016 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
PROSPEX OIL AND GAS PLC
closed 3 Jun 20162 disclosures · peak 2.33% · first 2 Jun 2016 · last 3 Jun 2016
2 Jun 2016 2.33% · 3 Jun 2016 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Atlas Development & Support Services Ltd
closed 19 Feb 20162 disclosures · peak 0.52% · first 17 Feb 2016 · last 19 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016 0.52% · 19 Feb 2016 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Lonmin PLC
closed 11 Dec 20153 disclosures · peak 0.63% · first 20 Nov 2015 · last 11 Dec 2015
20 Nov 2015 0.51% · 7 Dec 2015 0.63% · 11 Dec 2015 0.00%
The chain ends here: the register holds no later disclosure, which normally means the position fell back below 0.5%.
Frequently asked questions
- Which UK companies did Investec Bank plc short?
- The FCA's named register recorded Investec Bank plc against 4 UK companies between 2015 and 2026, across 10 disclosures. No position was still open when the register closed on 10 Jul 2026.
- Is this list current?
- No. It is a frozen archive. The FCA stopped publishing position-holder names on 13 July 2026 and now publishes one anonymous aggregate per company per day, so no new named UK disclosure exists after 10 Jul 2026. Today's UK figures are on each company's own page.
- Was this the whole of Investec Bank plc's UK short book?
- No. Only net short positions of 0.5% or more of a company's issued share capital were published with the holder's name. Smaller positions were reported to the FCA privately and never appeared in the register, so the archive is a floor, not a full book.
Source: the Financial Conduct Authority's daily short positions file, captured on 10 Jul 2026 from fca.org.uk and archived unchanged. Figures are as the FCA published them; this site is not affiliated with the FCA. Nothing here is investment advice.