On March 11, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the following new webpages on the Securities Financing Transactions (SFTR):

  1. an overview of SFTR (available here);
  2. an overview of the EU SFTR reporting obligations (available here); and
  3. a non-exhaustive library for EU and UK SFTR links and information (available here).

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On March 19, 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a public statement regarding the reporting requirements and registration of EU trade repositories (TR) under the Securities Finance Transactions Regulation (SFTR) in light of the recent adverse developments of the COVID-19 pandemic (the Public Statement).
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