Transaction-level reporting under EU markets regulation: MiFIR Article 26 trade reports to NCAs, EMIR derivatives reporting to trade repositories, SFTR for securities financing transactions, and the ESMA active account requirement under EMIR 3.0. This section also covers EMIR initial margin reporting and the IM model authorisation regime now applying to firms above the IM threshold. Articles explain the field-level requirements, lifecycle events (new, modify, terminate, error correction), reconciliation expectations, and the most common reporting errors that trigger NCA queries. Start with the MiFIR transaction reporting guide for the Article 26 fundamentals or the EMIR reporting guide for derivatives reporting essentials.
Form PF reporting is the confidential return an SEC-registered investment adviser files on its private funds once the adviser and its related persons hold at least $150 million in private fund assets under management on the last day of a fiscal year. The duty sits in rule 204(b)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940…
RTRS reporting is the duty, set by MSRB Rule G-14, for every broker, dealer and municipal securities dealer to report each purchase and sale of a municipal security to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s Real-Time Transaction Reporting System (RTRS). From 1 July 2026 the Rule G-14 RTRS Procedures require a trade executed during the RTRS…
On 18 September 2026 the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority published the minutes and supporting slides from the first meetings of their Transaction and Post-trade Reporting Harmonisation Taskforce, held on 3 July 2026. The papers are the clearest public signal yet of where UK transaction reporting harmonisation is heading across UK MiFIR,…
On 15 September 2026 the ECB published a letter, dated the previous day, in which the Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo) formally asked Swift to move its 2026 securities message upgrade onto the TARGET Services June 2027 release. AMI-SeCo’s purpose is practical: the group is trying to protect the testing…
On 12 December 2025 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions published a joint review of how the uncleared margin requirements framework has been implemented, and the headline for reporting and collateral teams is that nothing in the rulebook moves. The review found no material issues with the framework…
ESMA opened a consultation on 18 August 2026 on the technical standards that turn EMIR Article 7d into a working return, and comments close on 12 October 2026. Article 7d, added to EMIR by Regulation (EU) 2024/2987 (EMIR 3), requires clearing members and clients that clear contracts through a central counterparty recognised under Article 25…
On 8 September 2026, the Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS) begins the first, dry-run stage of the fail fee framework for Government of Canada (GoC) securities. During this stage, CDS calculates indicative 50 basis point fees for chargeable seller-side DvP fails in GoC bills, nominal bonds, real return bonds and strips. CIMPA and CDS, on…
On 14 August 2026 ESMA confirmed that the reworked weekly commodity derivatives position reporting framework goes live on 3 September 2026. From that date, an investment firm or market operator operating an EU trading venue whose relevant contract is subject to the Article 58 weekly-reporting obligation must submit the weekly report to ESMA using the…
11 October 2027 is the government-supported first trading date for the UK T+1 transition. HM Treasury has committed to legislate for that date, but its latest published statutory instrument is still draft and subject to affirmative parliamentary approval. Under the draft, UK CSDR Article 5(2) would require in-scope transactions in transferable securities executed on a…
On 3 August 2026 the Financial Conduct Authority published PS26/15, the policy statement that finalises its overhaul of UK transaction reporting. From 3 April 2028, firms reporting under UK MiFIR will populate 52 fields instead of 65, will no longer report foreign exchange derivatives, and will drop roughly 7 million instruments that trade only on…