24 February 2020

ICMA’s ERCC publishes guide to reporting under the SFTR

The new reporting regime introduced by SFTR will start its phased implementation in April 2020 and will require detailed reporting by EU-incorporated or located entities of all securities financing transactions (including repo and reverse repo) to authorised trade repositories.

The regulation introduces granular daily reporting requirements for repos and other types of SFTs. The ICMA guide aims to help members interpret the regulatory reporting framework specified by ESMA and sets out complementary best practice recommendations to provide additional clarity and address ambiguities in the official guidance. It is supplemented by a suite of sample reports and an overview of repo life-cycle event reporting.
ICMA has played a leading role in guiding the industry response to the challenges of SFTR reporting, through the ERCC’s dedicated SFTR Task Force which represents over 150 firms covering the whole spectrum of the market. The group includes reporting firms from both buy-side and sell-side but also market infrastructures and third-party service providers offering solutions to help reporting firms comply with SFTR. The guide published today is based on feedback from members of the SFTR Task Force and defines a market consensus on over 70 issues.
Complementing the work on best practices, ICMA actively provides support and technical training on the requirements of SFTR, running numerous workshops and webinars, operating a well-used ‘help line’ for members and participating in industry events.
Martin Scheck, ICMA’s Chief Executive commented: ‘Intensive cross industry collaboration through the task force coordinated by ICMA reflects the scale of the challenge that SFTR poses to repo and other SFT markets. It has succeeded in creating a clear and authoritative ‘how to’ guide for anyone obliged to report under SFTR and will support the objective of the regulation by facilitating good data quality from the market to enhance transparency’.

Full guide

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