Trade Reporting Field of the Week: Investment Firm Indicator

This week’s Trade Reporting Field of the Week looks at the Investment Firm Indicator field in MiFIR reports.
Trade Reporting Field of the Week: Report Executing Entity ID

For this Friday’s Trade Reporting Field of the Week, TRAction reviews the Executing Entity ID field in MiFIR reports.
Trade Reporting Field of the Week: Venue Transaction ID

For today’s Trade Reporting Field of the Week, TRAction is exploring the Venue Transaction ID field.
Trade Reporting Field of the Week: TRN

For today’s Trade Reporting Field of the Week, TRAction reviews the Transaction Reference Number field.
Trade Reporting Field of the Week: Report Status

TRAction’s new Trade Reporting Field of the Week series reviews the 65 MiFIR fields. This week we kickstart the series with the Report Status field.
LEI Requirements

There are certain fields within EMIR, MiFIR and SFTR which require populating with an LEI or specifically ‘ISO 17442 Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) 20 alphanumerical character code’
Update: the all-new User-Friendly Guide to Transaction Reporting in Europe and UK is here

TRAction is pleased to introduce the updated User-Friendly Guide to Transaction Reporting in Europe. The team at TRAction have refreshed our well-known guide for those reporting under EMIR and MiFIR/MiFID II in both the UK and Europe.
ESMA Q&A Update – MiFID II and MiFIR Market Structures Topics

There has been an addition to the Q&As where trading venues are allowed to set instrument-level trading hours for specific financial instruments as long as the trading hours are announced to the public and market participants.
Do You Need to Report (MiFIR) Trade Time in Milliseconds?

When reporting transactions to regulatory bodies, there are variations in the data format that is required from region to region. An example of this difference is the accuracy of the timestamp that is deemed acceptable. Under MiFID II/ MiFIR,milliseconds are required in an attempt to increase the transparency and detail of the information passed to the regulator.
Trade Reporting for Foreign Payment/Money Transfer Providers

Globally there are a host of foreign exchange brokers which allow their customers to move currency to and from different countries and currencies. These companies are subject to different requirements based on the jurisdiction where they are based and the role they play in the market.