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DTCC Adds End-to-End EU Transaction Reporting With New MiFID ARM
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced the launch of its EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) on November 10, 2026. The end-to-end transaction-reporting service is built on a cloud-native platform and is intended to improve reporting accuracy, data quality and compliance efficiency.
The EU service joins DTCC’s UK MiFID ARM, launched in May 2026, and its Global Trade Repository (GTR). Clients can access all three through a single-sign-on portal, creating one entry point for EU and UK transaction reporting alongside GTR’s derivatives and securities-financing-transaction reporting.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) says its transaction-reporting exchange mechanism covers requirements for reporting transactions to competent authorities under Article 26 of the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) and related technical standards. The associated technical documents specify how reporting entities submit transaction reports to national competent authorities and how those authorities exchange the reports among themselves. Firms can report directly or through an ARM, and DTCC’s service is designed around the operational work supporting that obligation: submitting data, monitoring quality, managing exceptions and correcting reports.
Submission Controls and Correction Tools
The service documentation describes automated quality controls, exception management and status tracking to help users identify and resolve reporting issues. A dedicated 24/7 back-reporting channel handles historical submissions and corrections, while support for multiple submission channels and formats provides flexibility for firms’ reporting systems. Together, those functions cover current submission monitoring and later remediation within one reporting workflow.
Dashboards and reporting tools deliver near-real-time visibility into submission status, exceptions and data quality. Users can review insights, trend analysis and anonymized peer-comparison data to support issue prioritization and remediation. Implementation includes a dedicated onboarding team and a single point of contact, with self-service administrative tools for ongoing administration.
“DTCC’s EU-MiFID ARM extends our proven global reporting capabilities, enabling firms to meet evolving regulatory requirements across jurisdictions and regimes through one trusted provider,” said Michele Hillery, DTCC managing director and head of Repository and Derivatives Services.
An Established Reporting Network
DTCC reports that GTR supports derivatives and securities-financing-transaction reporting to more than 70 regulators across 24 global reporting regimes or jurisdictions, and that more than 5,000 firms worldwide use its regulatory-reporting services. Those figures describe the established operation into which the EU ARM is being introduced.
The launch extends that operating model to EU transaction reporting, combining multi-regime access with automated controls, a dedicated correction channel and analytics. For firms coordinating EU and UK transaction reporting with GTR submissions, the practical question is whether consolidated access and integrated controls can reduce the work of resolving exceptions and maintaining reporting quality across jurisdictions.
