Trade & Transaction Reporting Services

Identify failings in the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of your MiFID/MiFIR and EMIR regulatory reporting with our team of experts.

The requirement to report details of transactions has existed for many years but, as regulations have evolved, this has become increasingly onerous and complex. The FCA has identified improved regulatory reporting as one of its supervisory priorities, having already levied fines of varying sizes totaling more than £130m for reporting errors or omissions under MiFID and EMIR.

Our award-winning trade and transaction reporting solutions help your firm identify failings in the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of your trade and transaction reports. The prompt identification of errors can significantly reduce the cost and reputational risk from regulatory scrutiny and enforcement as well as the operational burden of re-reporting.

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Our solutions

Systems and Controls Reviews

For one-off or recurring reviews of the controls surrounding your firm’s reporting framework.

By looking at both the design and operation of those controls, we help ensure that you have the appropriate monitoring, oversight and governance arrangements in place to facilitate correct reporting. These reviews are available for a combination of reporting regimes, in addition to the ARRMA service or as a standalone service.

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For a regular, cost-effective solution to analyse the data included in your firm’s reports and identify issues relating to the accuracy, completeness and timeliness.

By blending technology with consulting services, our award winning solution helps firms undertake meaningful monitoring that would otherwise require intensive, expensive and burdensome internal resources. Our reviews can be conducted monthly or quarterly with costs determined on a sliding scale to reflect report volumes.

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Training

We provide training for topics including transaction reporting, EMIR, market abuse, trade surveillance, senior management obligations, governance and compliance officer roles and responsibilities.

These are delivered by one of our specialist trainers and can be customised to meet your firm’s needs.

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Solution Spotlight

Free transaction reporting review

Take advantage of a complimentary one-time ARRMA lite reporting analysis to help identify the percentage of your reports featuring an error.

97% of firms analysed by our award-winning ARRMA service have shown errors in their reporting* and many firms are still in breach by not incorporating market data processor (MDP) data in their MiFIR transaction reporting monitoring.

Book your free review to assess the state of your transaction reporting today.

Our team

Charlotte Longman

Charlotte Longman

Managing Director and Lead, ACA's Regulatory Reporting & Assurance (ARRMA) Service
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Andraé Young

Principal Consultant
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Why work with us?

Our deep expertise

Our deep expertise in compliance and market surveillance technology can help strengthen your trade and transaction reporting programme, identify potential business and compliance risks, and avoid potential problems arising with key stakeholders, regulators, and current and prospective clients.

Our specialist team

Our specialist team has performed numerous EMIR and MiFIR reviews, from high-level control testing to full scope data analysis, logic specification and control design projects.

Our insights and benchmarking

We provide insights from quantitative ARRMA peer analysis to help you understand how your firm compares to its industry peers. This benchmarking is a valuable addition to your firm’s management body reporting as part of ongoing governance.

Latest trade and transaction reporting insights

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Abide Closure – What Happens Next?

With CME winding down Abide, its European regulatory reporting platform, many firms now face a complex, time-critical move to an alternative transaction reporting provider. We explore what this means for affected firms and what's needed to ensure ongoing compliance.

Compliance Alert
  • Trade & Transaction
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Transaction Reporting: Seven More to Study

Following on from Market Watch 59, the FCA has just published Market Watch 62 where yet again it is taking aim at the numerous data quality issues seen in MiFIR transaction reports. The FCA’s persistent focus on the topic and the fact that many firms do not appear to be taking on board their observations make it increasingly likely that the FCA’s patience might be wearing thin.

Compliance Alert
  • Trade & Transaction
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MiFID II transaction reporting – Firms are still getting it wrong

Whilst the FCA’s priorities appear, for the time being, to be on understanding the nature and scale of reporting data errors and how they are addressed, failings under MiFID I moved it to take several high-profile enforcement actions. It is imperative that firms get to grips with their MiFID II transaction reporting processes and data quality checks as soon as possible.

Compliance Alert
  • Compliance
  • Trade & Transaction
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Transaction reporting: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

Numerous firms who have undertaken complex, expensive and burdensome projects to build their reporting frameworks have mistaken the light at the end of the implementation tunnel as the end of the MiFID II challenge. Some firms are looking the wrong way down the tunnel, and others might well be watching the FCA enforcement train leaving the station.

Compliance Alert
  • Compliance
  • Trade & Transaction
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FCA Signals Continued Focus on Market Abuse with Market Watch 58

With the publication of recent Market Watches in quick succession, the FCA appear to be increasing its focus on this topic in an attempt to improve standards and ensure that the UK has a clean, orderly and transparent market in which participants can trust.

Compliance Alert
  • Trade & Transaction
  • FCA

Featured webcasts

MiFIR Transaction Reporting: A Practical Guide

Join us on Monday, 19 July at 11:00am BST for a complimentary webcast to mark the forthcoming launch of AIMA’s MiFIR Transaction Reporting Guide that has been developed with the support of ACA Group.

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EMIR Refit: Reporting Checklist

The most recent phase of the amended European Market Infrastructure Regulation (“EMIR REFIT” or simply “REFIT”) came into effect on 18 June 2020. These latest requirements are designed to simplify a derivatives regime currently seen as burdensome to some market participants, particularly those whose risk profile is unlikely to impact macro stability.

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