ESMA recently closed a consultation on the Securities Financing Transaction Reporting regulation (SFTR). The scope of SFTR includes “commodities lending”, which could be taken to include certain activities undertaken by commodity and energy market participants. SFTR covers Non-Financial Counterparties (NFC), as well as Financial Counterparties (FC). Earlier this year the start dates of reporting were … Continue reading
The Securities Financing Transaction Reporting (SFTR) implementing regulation has now been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. This sets the start of reporting dates. The first date is 11th April 2020 for Investment Firms. The date for NFCs is 11th January 2021. The final set of documents can be found here. Previous … Continue reading
As the working year of 2019 opens, it is worth taking a few moments to consider what will keep us busy in the regulatory world of energy and commodity trading over the coming months. As usual on this blog, we will focus on Europe, with an eye on the rest of the world. The era … Continue reading
Last week, the European Commission adopted several level II texts relating to the Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR). The rules require that transactions in repurchase agreements, securities lending/borrowing, commodities lending/borrowing, buy/sell back and “reuse” of collateral are reported to authorised Trade Repositories. The rules will apply to a wide range of entities, including non financial counterparties, … Continue reading
The 2018 working year starts today for most, which provides a good opportunity to consider the months ahead. Start of year The end of 2017 has been unsurprisingly busy, with several pieces of news posted since our “end of year” entry. In addition to today being the first day on which Swiss “FC-” and “NFC+” … Continue reading
There has been a great deal of discussion on the future of EMIR following the EMIR review in 2015. Some of this has focused on whether the reporting of trades under EMIR should move to a one sided model, or possibly one with “enforced delegation” when a financial counterparty trades with a “small” non financial. … Continue reading
ESMA have issued a final report on the Securities Finance Transaction Reporting rules, which can be found here. The associated press release is here. SFTR will require all market participants to report “securities financing” transactions, which includes commodities lending, to Trade Repositories. Page 60 of the document, section 4.2.4.3 addresses some commodity specific issues. It refers … Continue reading
See here for an article by Ian Sutherland on The OTC Space about implementing regulatory change and technology. While the article is focused on banking , the energy and commodity sector is in the process of grappling with similar issues. These are the ones of whether to approach regulatory change on a strategic or tactical … Continue reading
For many, today is the first working day of 2017, which is also the original start date of MiFID II, before it was delayed by a year. With an eventful year behind us, what can we expect in the coming months, both on paper and in reality? Rules There is one year to go until … Continue reading
ESMA have issued a discussion paper on SFTR, the Security Financing Transaction Reporting rules. The paper can be found here. SFTR requires that all securities financing transactions be reported to a Trade Repository. This includes commodities lending and commodities financing. It is likely that commodity and energy market participants will be caught by these rules … Continue reading
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