SFTR Solution

Meet your Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) reporting obligations

What is SFTR?

As part of the policies identified by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to increase transparency across Securities Financing Transactions (SFTs), the EU introduced the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR). The regulation includes a number of new rules for market participants including a requirement to report all SFTs to an approved Trade Repository (TR). The trade-reporting regulation mandated under Article 4 of the draft SFTR legislation will compel the securities finance industry to radically restructure its data architecture – integrating numerous and often disparate, data sources to enhance transparency.

SFTR Product Brochure - French Version

SFTR Product Brochure - German Version

SFTR Reporting Timeline

How IHS Markit can help you comply with SFTR

IHS Markit, in partnership with Pirum Systems, offers a fully hosted data and end-to-end reporting solution for SFTs, which sets an industry wide standard, providing the foundation needed to reconcile trading activity down to the UTI and LEI level of granularity. The SFTR solution offers participants turnkey connectivity to trade repositories. This modular, fully hosted, solution leverages our proven track record of delivering industry wide reporting solutions and our 10 years of partnership with the securities lending community.

Key benefits:

  • Built-in infrastructure and relationships – Tap into the existing relationships that IHS Markit has built across the securities finance industry. Our network of data contributors, built over the last 10 years, represents $15 trillion of inventory held by over 120,000 underlying funds. We process and match over 3 million transactions daily using a reporting spec that already covers the majority of fields required by the latest draft of the SFTR legislation. Flexibility – Use the solution’s modular nature to meet your individual needs and structure. 
  • Flexibility – starts with the data ingest architecture all the way down to trade reporting as the solution will be connected to every trade repository.
  • Future-proof compliance – Get a solution that has the flexibility to deliver transaction reporting across future legislation, which might require transaction reporting, as well as any additional transparency/risk reporting framework that could be mandated across the securities finance industry.

Customers

  • Securities finance
  • Repo
  • Asset Managers
  • Sovereign Wealth Funds
  • Pension Funds
  • Securities Lending Traders
  • Prime Brokers

SFT transactions include:

  • Repo/reverse repo and buy/sell back
  • Securities loans and borrows
  • Commodities loans and borrows
  • Prime brokerage margin lending transactions
  • Collateral re-use

Who must comply with SFTR?

  • Financial counterparties (FCs)
  • Non-financial counterparties (NFCs)
  • EU-based entities, including their non-EU-based branches
  • Non-EU entities, where the SFT is concluded by an EU-based branch

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