Europe’s new rules on securities financing transactions require firms to collect and report a mass of new data. This is a challenge, but also an opportunity A spike in market volumes and volatility ...

In terms of products, Repurchase Agreements, Securities Borrowing and Lending, Buy Sell Backs, and Margin Lending (in relation to Prime Brokerage business) are in scope for SFTR. There is a total of ...

LSEG units announce new deal for reporting of Securities Financing Transactions ahead of new regulations due in April next year. LCH’s RepoClear is to use UnaVista as its trade repository for ...

With the European Union’s Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) countdown clock ticking, the industry is awaiting the official publication by International Organization for ...

SimCorp, a leading provider of integrated, front-to-back, multi-asset investment management solutions and services to the world’s largest buy-side institutions, today announces the successful SFTR go ...

LONDON, Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Finastra announced today that it has launched a tailored, Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) reporting tool that will help banks prepare for the ...

Industry-wide testing of the European Union’s incoming Securities Financing Transactions Regulation is due to start, although the schemas to send data to the trade repositories are not yet available.

Although the final rules are yet to be published, the reporting requirements are likely to take effect in the first quarter of 2020, which means firms should be assigning project teams and technology ...

For most firms, it simply means more time to complete testing and raise the quality of the data that will be reported. Nobody is taking the opportunity to simply slow things down and relax. The ...

SFTR is similar to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir), but Emir covers over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives while SFTR governs securities financing trades. The regulations may be ...