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30th March 2021

ESMA Proposes Amendments to MiFIR Transactions and Reference Data Reporting Regimes

What is happening?

  • ESMA has published Final Report on its recommendation to update MiFIR transaction and reference data reporting obligations

  • The European Commission to review proposals

  • European Parliament to ratify then implementation timescale to begin

  • Estimated timescales to go live – 3 years.

What are the high impact proposals?

  • Update to TOTV definition to include products currently listed on Sis (79)

  • The definition of index to be brought in line with benchmarking regulation (100)

  • INTC to be replaced with a unique code per grouped order (185)

  • Additional data required to identify clients (188)

  • The removal of the short sale indicator (215)

  • Buyback transactions to become in scope for reporting (235)