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.
On 6 July 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published the first stage of its effectiveness assessment of the EMIR Active Account Requirement, together with the first annual report of the Joint Monitoring Mechanism. The rule applies to financial and non-financial EU counterparties that are subject to the EMIR clearing obligation and meet…
On 6 July 2026 the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) selected Etrading Software (Netherlands) B.V. to run the EU’s OTC derivatives consolidated tape, naming it the consolidated tape provider for over-the-counter derivatives under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). It is the third and last asset class under Article 27da of MiFIR to…
Luxembourg counterparties that clear euro or Polish zloty interest rate derivatives face their first round of EMIR active account reporting around the end of this month. ESMA’s supervisory guidance sets the first report under Article 7b of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation for 31 July 2026, covering the stretch from 25 June 2025, when the…
On 2 July 2026, ESMA put a price on something reporting teams have grumbled about for years. The regulator published its final report on the transaction reporting simplification agenda and estimated that cutting duplication across EMIR, MiFIR and SFTR could save the industry up to EUR 1 billion a year. The figure sits at the…
Last updated: June 2026 For the first time, the UK bond consolidated tape gives the market a single feed showing the price and size of UK bond trades across venues and over-the-counter activity, close to real time. The trade report your firm publishes for a corporate bond no longer disappears into a venue feed that…
Last updated: June 2026 A platform migration in securities settlement is the kind of project that looks like an IT problem until the first cross-border trade fails on a date nobody mapped. On 23 June 2026 the Riksbank decided to open contract negotiations with the Eurosystem to settle Swedish krona securities transactions on TARGET2-Securities, the…
Last updated: June 2026 When a clearing member defaults, what decides whether the rest of the market keeps trading is rarely whether the CCP has enough margin on file. It is whether the operational machine around the default works under pressure: can client positions be ported to a surviving member before the porting window closes,…
Last updated: June 2026 Get the EMIR 3 clearing obligation calculation wrong and the error does not stay small. A counterparty that miscounts its positions can either declare itself out of scope when it is in, or open an account it never needed at a central counterparty and start paying for clearing capacity it cannot…
Last updated: June 2026 If you run a UK EMIR reporting function, the news that the Bank of England and the FCA have reviewed their Memorandum of Understanding on financial market infrastructure looks like a non-event. Two regulators tell each other they cooperate well. No template changed, no deadline moved. Easy to file and move…
Last updated: June 2026 An energy trading desk can hedge a winter gas position perfectly and still fail two reporting regimes at once. The same forward sold on a regulated venue lands in an EMIR trade repository feed, an ACER data collection under REMIT, and, for many firms, a MiFID II position report. Miss a…