Press releases 2011

-         LSEG facilitates FSA’s requirement for customer reporting of exchange derivatives through UnaVista
-         UnaVista’s reference data to assist customer Aii integration

London Stock Exchange Group today announced that their leading transaction reporting service UnaVista is now approved to report all exchange traded derivatives using the Alternative Instrument Identifier (Aii).

The announcement follows the FSA’s formal declaration of the new date for mandatory reporting of exchange derivatives using Aii as the 13 November 2011. UnaVista clients can commence reporting exchange traded derivatives from the 8 August 2011 when the FSA’s new ZEN system goes live.

Mark Husler, Head of Business Development at the London Stock Exchange Group said:

“Offering transaction reporting for derivatives ensures UnaVista customers’ have a single solution for all their regulatory reporting needs across all markets and asset types.”

To help customers with the introduction of the new Aii code, UnaVista also provides global derivatives reference data covering over 80 markets, mapped to ISIN and SEDOL symbologies.

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Tom Gilbert                                       Press Office +44 (0)20 7797 1222 
                                                         newsroom@londonstockexchange.com

Notes to editors:

About UnaVista

UnaVista is the London Stock Exchange’s secure, hosted platform for all validation, matching and reconciliation needs. UnaVista offers a range of business solutions including Post-Trade Services, Data Solutions and Reconciliations. UnaVista, which processes on average 35 million rows of data on a daily basis, is hosted at the London Stock Exchange reducing the installation time and cost and improves the accessibility. UnaVista’s transaction reporting service provides all of the basic validation provided by other ARMs, as is mandated by MiFID, but also provides additional validation to protect firms against future regulation changes and significantly reduce the risk of providing incorrect data to the FSA.

About London Stock Exchange Group:

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) sits at the heart of the world’s financial community. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe's leading fixed income market; and Turquoise, offering pan-European and US lit and dark equity trading. Through its markets, the Group offers international business unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets.

The Group is a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software and also offers its customers around the world an extensive range of real-time and reference data products and market-leading post-trade services. 

Headquartered in London, United Kingdom with significant operations in Italy and Sri Lanka, the Group employs around 1500 people. Further information on London Stock Exchange Group can be found at www.londonstockexchangegroup.com.