EMIR Reporting: Industry Asks for More Time
On 31 July, five industry associations – the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), the British Bankers’ Association (BBA), Associazione Italiana Intermediari Mobiliari (ASSOSIM) and the German Banking Industry Committee (DGSV) – wrote to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) regarding concerns about the implementation of trade reporting under EMIR.
ESMA recently confirmed that reporting for all five asset classes – interest rate products, credit derivatives, foreign exchange, commodities and equity derivatives – would commence on 1 January 2014. Previously it had been the case that implementation would be a two-stage process, with reporting for interest rate products and credit being introduced first.
The authors of the letter are understandably concerned with the operational risk associated with a ‘big bang’ approach to reporting, noting that it is also inconsistent with the position previously adopted by ESMA, the EU Commission, the EU Parliament and the EU Council. They are also of the opinion that it will be impossible to support delegated reporting from 1 January 2014. They fear that the net effect is that many clients would not be on-boarded by 1 January 2014 and there would likely be a large number of inaccurate and failed reports initially, frustrating the high-level ambitions of EMIR to bring transparency to the market.
The authors propose the following solution:
Date |
Asset Class |
Deadline |
20 January 2014 (Day T) |
Credit and Rates |
Reporting start date for legal entities undertaking own reporting |
T+90 days |
Equities, Commodities, FX |
Reporting start date for legal entities undertaking own reporting |
T+180 days |
Credit and Rates |
Collateral reporting start date for legal entities undertaking own reporting |
T+180 days |
All |
Reporting start date for legal entities delegating their reporting |
T+270 days |
Equities, Commodities, FX |
Collateral reporting start date for legal entities undertaking own reporting |
T+360 days |
All |
Collateral reporting start date for legal entities delegating their reporting |
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