Question 3.6.4

Question 3.6.4

Related documents: II.3.6 of the Frequently Asked Questions

Question relates to the reporting of executions under back loaded nonstandard contracts.

According to II.3.2 of FAQs, an execution completed before 7 April 2016 does not need to be reported. Executions with delivery period extending beyond 7 April 2016 need to be reported. However, as the deadline for backloading of nonstandard contracts is 7 July 2016, the questions are:

a. Does an execution with a delivery period ending before the nonstandard contract is back loaded need to be reported?

b. If yes, what is the deadline for reporting such an execution? Should it be reported within 30 days of the end of the delivery period, even if this is a date earlier than 7 July 2016 (in which case the nonstandard contract should be back loaded not later than the date of reporting of the execution)? Or should such an execution be reported only when the nonstandard contract is back loaded, even if this falls later than 30 days from the end of the delivery period of the execution.

Answer to the second question of II.3.6 of FAQs (which probably should be properly marked as question 3.6.2, instead of 3.6.1) suggests that only executions with delivery periods ending after a nonstandard contract is actually back loaded are reportable. This would mean that executions with delivery period ending after 7 April 2016 but before the nonstandard contract is actually back loaded (which can happen by 7 July 2016) would not be reportable at all. We are not clear if this was the actual intention of the Agency.

As a follow up question: when new executions of a back loaded contract are reported after the backloading is done, do the data reported by each of the counterparties regarding such executions need to match? Many Xxxx market participants are reporting to me that they have significant difficulties in agreeing with some counterparties how the historical contracts are to be reported and it is quite likely that several back loaded contracts will be reported by each of the respective counterparties differently (with non-reconciled data). I would greatly appreciate your input on this. My understanding is that in case of back loaded contracts both data reported by the two counterparties under table 2 and data reported under table 1 for executions of back loaded contracts are not required to match.


Answer

Executions under the framework of non-standard contracts with a delivery period ending before the nonstandard contract is back loaded do not need to be reported.

Criteria for back loading are more relaxed. Please refer to TRUM Annex II, e.g. Example 4.05 to see the differences in the back loaded contract reported by two counterparties.

Updated: 
10/07/2017