Earlier than expected by most of the market participants ESMA published the Final Report – Technical standards on reporting, data quality, data access and registration of Trade Repositories under EMIR REFIT on December 17, 2020.
The document itself consists of nearly 300 pages and will have a significant impact on the reporting logic under EMIR.
The key proposals included in the technical standards are:
- Alignment with international standards – in particular the global guidance developed by CPMI-IOSCO on the definition, format and usage of key OTC derivatives data elements reported to TRs, including the Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI), the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) and other critical data elements. The introduction of these changes into the EU regulatory framework will foster global data harmonisation and will facilitate compliance for those entities that are subject to derivative reporting requirements in non-EU jurisdiction(s);
- End-to-end reporting in ISO 20022 XML – ESMA proposes that XML schemas developed in line with ISO 20022 methodology are used not only for the communication between the TRs and authorities (as is the case now), but also for reporting from TR counterparties, similar to the requirements in place under SFTR. A fully standardised format for reporting will eliminate the risk of discrepancies due to inconsistent data. While end-to-end reporting in ISO 20022 XML is expected to further enhance data quality and consistency, by reducing the need for data cleaning/normalisation and facilitate their exploitation for various supervisory and/or economic analysis;
- Harmonised data quality requirements across TRs – another cornerstone of the technical standards relates to the enhanced and harmonised data quality requirements for data validation and data reconciliation processes, that take place at the TRs once derivatives are reported to them;
- Simplified rules for extension of registration from SFTR to EMIR – ESMA clarifies the relevant documentation to be provided by TRs willing to extend their registration from SFTR to EMIR in line with the existing requirements for extension from EMIR to SFTR; and
- Standardised process for data access – ESMA includes references to standardise the type of information and the timeline for setting up data access for authorities.
The original publication as well as the related documents can be found here.
