Delegated regulation 2019/358 - Supplement to Regulation 2015/2365 with regard to regulatory technical standards on the collection, verification, aggregation, comparison and publication of data on securities financing transactions (SFTs) by trade repositories - Main contents

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 81/30

To ensure the high quality of the SFT details reported to trade repositories, trade repositories should verify the identity of the report submitting entities, the logical integrity of the sequence in which SFT details are reported, and the completeness and correctness of those SFT details.

For the same reason, trade repositories should reconcile the details of each SFT report received. A standardised process should be specified to enable trade repositories to conduct reconciliation in a consistent manner and to reduce the risks of details of SFTs not being reconciled. Certain details of SFTs, however, might not be identical due to the specificities of the technology systems used by the entities submitting the report. Certain tolerances therefore need to be applied, so that minor differences in the reported details of SFTs do not prevent the authorities from analysing the data with an adequate level of confidence.

It is to be expected that report submitting entities will over time improve their reporting, both in terms of a reduction of the number of rejected reports and in terms of reconciled reports. They should however be given sufficient time to adapt to the reporting requirements, in particular to prevent the accumulation of non-reconciled trades immediately after the reporting obligation starts to apply. It is therefore appropriate that in a first phase only a reduced set of fields should be reconciled.

Report submitting entities and entities responsible for reporting, if applicable, should be able to monitor their compliance with their reporting obligations under Regulation (EU) 2015/2365. They should therefore be able to access certain information, on a daily basis, in respect of those reports, including the result of the verification of those reports, as well as the progress of the reconciliation of the reported data. It is therefore necessary to specify the information that a trade repository should make available to these entities at the end of each working day.

To facilitate the integrity of the details of SFTs, the direct and immediate access referred to in Article 12(2) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2365 should be provided in a harmonised and consistent manner. To standardise the reporting, minimise the costs for the industry and ensure the comparability and consistent aggregation of data across trade repositories, it is appropriate that all output reports and exchanges are delivered in XML format templates and follow a methodology that is widely used in the financial industry.

Access to position level data on the exposures between two given counterparties is essential to enable the entities referred to in Article 12(2) of Regulation (EU) 2015/2365 to determine potential sources of systemic or non-systemic risks to financial stability.

To provide an adequate level of transparency to the public with regard to SFTs, the criteria used for the aggregation of...