ESMA_QA_936

Status: ✅ Answer Published

Link to ESMA Q&A tool: https://www.esma.europa.eu/publications-data/questions-answers/936

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Regulatory Context

Regulation : SFTR

Level 1 Regulation: Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) Regulation (EU) 2015/2365- MDP

Level 2 Regulation: No information available

Level 3 Regulation: No information available

Topic: * LEI (Legal Entity Identifier)

Subject Matter: Reporting of the Jurisdiction of the issuer

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Question

Submission Date: 23 March 2023

Should the fields 2.53 and 2.92 ‘Jurisdiction of the issuer’ be populated with the country code of the registered office of the issuer or of the country where the head office is located?

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ESMA Answer

Answer Date: 23-03-2023

[ESMA 74-362-893 SFTR Q&A 15] These fields should be populated with the country of the registered office of the issuer (fields 2.54 and 2.93 ‘LEI of the issuer’), corresponding to the ‘Legal address’ in GLEIF data.

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