Regulation (EU) 2015/2365 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on transparency of securities financing transactions and of reuse and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (SFTR) imposes an obligation to report securities financing transactions (SFTs), which requires counterparties and central counterparties to ensure that the details of any SFT contract they have concluded and of any modification or termination of the contract are reported to a Trade Repository.

According to the SFTR, counterparties may delegate the reporting of the details of SFTs to a third party.

ATHEXClear provides the SFTR service in order to facilitate Clearing Members and their clients in the fulfilment of their reporting obligations in accordance with the SFTR.

The SFTR service enables Clearing Members to delegate to ATHEXClear, in accordance with article 4 of the SFTR, the reporting of:

• Any transactions concluded by a Clearing Member in the Securities Lending Mechanism of ATHEX with ATHEXClear and with the Clearing Member's clients, for which the reporting obligation lies with the Clearing Member.
• Transactions concluded by a Clearing Member's clients with the Clearing Member in the Securities Lending Mechanism of ATHEX, for which the reporting obligation lies with the clients and the latter have authorised the Clearing Member in this respect.
• Securities financing transactions and reuse, as well as any modification or termination of the respective contracts, which have been concluded over-the-counter or in other regulated markets by the Clearing Member or by its clients that have authorised the Clearing Member in this respect. 

Listed below you will find all the relevant texts, material and links relating to the SFTR service.

Documents - Material

Description
1.Application - Contract of SFTR Service Application - Contract for the procurement of the SFTR Service, concerning the participation of the Clearing Member to the SFTR Service
2.General Terms of the Contract of SFTR Service   2a. Terms of protection of personal data during the provision of the SFTR Service
3.Technical Specifications of  SFTR Service The technical specifications of the service (are part of the contract). Also, the present document contains information about the way in which ATHEX Clear reports the transactions.
4.Pricing Policy of SFTR Service Detailed description of the pricing policy for the SFTR Service.
5.Customer details file template for transactions cleared by ATHEX Clear A template for the Customer details file that the Clearing Members should submit to the ATHEX Clear, in order to register their customers' data for the needs of SFTR Service.
6.File Template for Clients' Guarantees File template for Clients' Guarantees. This file have to be uploaded on a daily basis if Clearing Member calculates margin differently than ATHEXClear.
7.Customer details file template for transactions non cleared by ATHEX Clear A template for the Customer details file that the Clearing Members should submit to the ATHEX Clear, in order to be able to report transactions for the Legal Entity contained in the file.
8.File registration  SFTR application user manual User Manual for the WEB application for submission of the files, according to the SFTR Service.

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