On March 28, 2018, ESMA published final Guidelines on Internalized Settlement Reporting under the Central Securities Depositories Regulation. The CSDR, which introduces common standards for settlements across the EU, will apply directly across the EU from January 1, 2023 to transferable securities issued after that date and, from January 1, 2025, to all transferable securities. The CSDR requires settlement internalizers to report the aggregated volume and value of all securities transactions that they settle outside of securities settlement systems to their national regulator on a quarterly basis. Settlement internalizers are firms that execute transfer orders on behalf of clients or on own account other than through a securities settlement system. National regulators must, without delay, transmit the information received from settlement internalizers to ESMA and inform ESMA of any resulting potential risk. RTS on internal settlement (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/391) provide the content of internalized settlement reporting and ITS (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/393) provide the templates and procedures for reporting and transmission of the information.
The Guidelines on Internalized Settlement Reporting aim to ensure the consistent application of the requirements under CSDR and the related technical standards. The Guidelines set out the scope of data to be reported to national regulators and the entities responsible for reporting the information. The Guidelines also provide the process for submission of information by national regulators to ESMA. The Guidelines will apply to national regulators and to settlement internalizers from the date that they are published on ESMA's website in the official languages of the EU.
The final Guidelines on reporting internalized settlement are available at: https://www.esma.europa.eu/pressnews/esma-news/esma-finalises-guidelines-how-report-internalisedsettlement?_sm_au_=iVVPjP5JfRPm2WtQ.
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