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1. Introduction
With this circular, Eurex Clearing announces the production launch of CCP Release 17.0 on Monday, 18 November 2019. All Clearing Members who clear Repo and Securities Lending transactions and respective Settlement Institutes are affected by the introduction of CCP Release 17.0.
Production start: 18 November 2019
2. Required action
Report changes to be introduced with this release might have an impact on report processing of Clearing Members for Repo (Repo Contracts, Repo Trade Confirmation) and Clearing Members for Securities Lending (Loan Obligations, Loan Confirmations). In order to be prepared for start of production, please check the internal processing of the above-mentioned reports.
3. Details of the initiative
As announced with Eurex Clearing circular 076/19 and documented in the “Functional Release Notes”, this release introduces enhancements and changes for the implementation of technical standards according to Article 4 of the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) with regards to the extension of trade registration of securities financing transactions. Eurex Clearing decided to update CCP reports for Repo and Securities Lending business by additional fields, which can be used in participant’s reporting towards the regulator.
Unless the context requires otherwise, terms used and not otherwise defined in this circular shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Clearing Conditions of Eurex Clearing AG.
4. Further information
| Recipients: | All Clearing Members, Basic Clearing Members, Disclosed Direct Clients of Eurex Clearing AG and vendors |
| Target groups: | Middle + Backoffice, IT/System Administration, Auditing/Security Coordination |
| Contact: | client.services@eurexclearing.com |
| Web: | Initiatives Page CCP Release 17.0 |
Related Eurex Clearing circular: | |
| Related Newsflashes: | Eurex Clearing Readiness Newsflash | Documentation update for CCP Release 17.0 and changes to reports with C7 Release 6.0 |
| Authorised by: | Heike Eckert |