ICMA ERCC Ops Group publishes overview on SFT reporting regulations and impact analysis

22 December 2015

The ICMA ERCC Operations Group is actively working towards a better understanding of the regulatory requirements, their impact on the post-trade processing of repo transactions as well as solutions to help firms establish an efficient operating model to manage the changes.

The first step is to obtain a clear understanding of the various regulatory requirements. For this purpose, the ERCC Operations Group has published a detailed overview of all relevant regulatory initiatives on the identification and reporting of SFTs, including some background on each of the regulations and a summary of the key provisions. This paper is regularly updated and extended as the regulatory requirements continue to evolve. More recently the briefing paper has been supplemented by a set of slides, which aim to present in a simplified and clear way the operational challenges presented by the various regulations. The slides include flow diagrams which help to illustrate the impacts on the different stages of the repo lifecycle and include references to the more relevant sections of the detailed overview paper.

This impact analysis serves as a problem statement but also sets out the agenda for the ERCC Operations Group by identifying a number of key areas of work where further harmonisation and standardisation may prove beneficial. While the impact analysis currently covers all the different SFT reporting initiatives, it is intended to add a separate section on CSDR requirements as soon as the related technical standards have been finalised by ESMA (expected in January 2016).

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