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In forceMarkets and infrastructureLast checked 13 November 2026

Securities financing transaction reporting (SFTR)

A regulatory return listed by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), European Union.

The Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) requires securities financing transactions (repos, securities or commodities lending and borrowing, buy-sell back and sell-buy back transactions, and margin lending) to be reported, to make the build-up of leverage, pro-cyclicality and interconnectedness in these markets more transparent; ESMA sets the technical standards, leveraging the same reporting-obligation design as EMIR. Source

The facts

Who files
All counterparties to securities financing transactions, financial or non-financial, reporting to Trade Repositories (TRs) registered with ESMA, not to ESMA itself. Source
How often
Trade-by-trade, as securities financing transactions are concluded, modified or terminated. Source
Deadline
Not restated on the page read; the current validation rules were updated 8 March 2023 and applicable from 11 September 2023. Source
Format
XML. ISO 20022 XML schemas, in three message sets: counterparty and TR data exchange, inter-TR data exchange, and TR to authority data exchange. Source
How it is filed
The format above is what the library records; what could not be verified is on the ESMA's page.
Status
In force
Group
Markets and infrastructure

Templates (0)

The library lists no templates for this return.

Reporting is message-based (ISO 20022 XML schemas), not a template with named schedules. Source

Validation rules

The ESMA publishes the checks it runs on this return. They could not be counted from the published material. They are written for people to read; software cannot run them as published. Source

Validation by TRs of counterparties' submissions, reconciliation of data between TRs, and response mechanisms; the published validation rules were last updated 8 March 2023.

The rules, on esma.europa.eu

Counts are in the ESMA's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.

Public data

No published data from this return was found. ESMA has published a first overview of EU securities financing transaction markets based on reported data (as of April 2024), an aggregate market report rather than firm-level filed data. Source

Official documents (2)

The ESMA's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 13 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

Knowing exactly what is collected, in what format and under which rules is the first step to real-time supervision. Line4 builds SupTech software for financial regulators that runs checks like these as each return arrives.

Line4's own text, and the way Line4 has collected and arranged these records, are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Please credit: “Source: Line4 regulatory submissions library (CC BY 4.0), https://www.line4.ai”. The facts themselves belong to no one. The regulators' document titles, template names, quoted terms and documents belong to them and are not covered by this licence: see ESMA's reuse terms. This describes what regulators publish. It is not legal or regulatory advice: always rely on the regulator's own text. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any regulator.

Source: European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), https://www.esma.europa.eu. The plain-English summaries are Line4's own; ESMA does not endorse this library.

Last checked 13 November 2026.