In 2014 the Australian securities exchange stopped offering exchange traded CFDs that they had launched in 2007, it had become clear that the majority of CFD trading occurred over-the-counter and the offering provided by the exchange was not attractive enough to create a viable on exchange market [REF].
In June 2009, the UK regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) implemented a general disclosure regime for CFDs to avoid them being used in insider information cases [REF].