RE: Hargreaves landsown31 Mar 2018 11:55
There is an alternate interpretation of this shambles. Maybe, despite assurances they they do not "lend out" shares they hold, perhaps actually they do. They could have been lending our shares, and have been caught out due to the corporate action and don't actually hold enough shares to cover the transfer. They may be scrambling now to buy shares to complete the transfer having literally been caught short, hence the recent rises in SP.
This is all speculation, but as someone who uses HL, in part because of that assurance that shares bought through them would not be used for the purposes of shorting, I would have to consider this a significant breach of trust (if not missappropriation of my shares, or even plain theft) and would be considering my financial relationship with HL very very carefully.