ESMA Approves ICE Trade Vault Europe as Trade Repository

IntercontinentalExchange Group ICE announced today that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has approved ICE Trade Vault Europe Limited (ICE Trade Vault Europe) as a Trade Repository (TR) for the reporting of swaps and futures trade data to meet requirements of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). ICE Trade Vault Europe was approved to collect trade data in the commodities, credit, interest rate and equity derivatives asset classes, and joins ICE Trade Vault U.S. as well as planned ICE repository services in Asia and Australia. Unique to EMIR, European trade data reporting also will encompass exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs). "We appreciate ESMA's detailed and comprehensive application process for trade repository applicants and we are pleased to launch this new and essential element of European market infrastructure," said David Peniket, Managing Director of ICE Trade Vault Europe. "Thanks to ICE's sophisticated technology and connectivity to execution venues and clearing houses, customers will find an accommodating and seamless service to meet the new reporting requirements under EMIR." In June 2012, ICE Trade Vault, LLC (ICE Trade See full press release
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