ICMA reports second week of SFTR findings 30 July 2020London Reporter: Natalie Turner
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Since 13 July 2020, all trade repositories (TRs) authorised under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), are required to publish a set of summary statistics for the previous week.
These currently include Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Regis-TR, UnaVista and the Central Securities Depository of Poland (KDPW).
SFTR data shows that 1.37 million SFTs for the week with a cash value €16.46 trillion and a collateral value of €20.5 trillion.
Repos accounted for 95.7 percent of the total value and 35 percent of the total number of trades, representing €15.76 trillion and 478,202 transactions, respectively.
Meanwhile, securities lending represented 64.9 percent of the total number of reported transactions (887,483), but only 4.2 percent (€698.2 billion) of the total value of reported trades.
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