On April 26, 2018, the Financial Stability Board opened a second consultation on governance of the Unique Product Identifier. The FSB identified UPIs in September 2014 as a critical element towards a mechanism to produce and share global aggregated derivatives reporting data, along with the development of a unique transaction identifier and the harmonization of other key data elements. The receipt of aggregated derivatives reporting data will enable national regulators to better assess systemic risk and perform other market oversight functions.
The purpose of the UPI is to uniquely identify OTC derivatives products that regulators require, or may require in the future, to be reported to trade repositories. The UPI system will assign a code to each OTC derivative product which maps to a set of data elements describing the product in a corresponding reference database, the UPI Reference Data Library. The Library will be administered by either one or a number of UPI Service Provider(s).
This second consultation paper seeks feedback on specific issues relating to the UPI Governance Arrangements, including fee models and cost recovery, intellectual property, standardization and potential restrictions on the activities of a UPI service provider. The FSB is also asking for feedback on whether a single UPI service provider model would be more suitable than having a competitive multi-UPI service provider model.
The consultation closes on May 24, 2018. The FSB intends to finalize the UPI governance arrangements and identify one or more UPI service provider(s) by mid-2019.
The consultation paper is available at: http://www.fsb.org/wp-content/uploads/P260418-1.pdf.
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