High-profile representatives from the hedge fund industry will appear this morning before the influential Treasury Committee at the UK's House of Commons as the Committee continues its investigation into the banking crisis with what promises to be a lively meeting, given the recent furore over the introduction and suspension of the ban on short-selling bank stocks.

09:45 - The meeting has just begun, and presumably referring to the high attendance to listen to the event Committee chairman John McFall is calling for people to stop moving around in the room.