Circulars
27 Nov 2017

Transmission of a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) of issuers - Reference data transmission according to Art. 4 of the regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 on market abuse and Art. 27 of the regulation (EU) No. 600/2017 on markets for financial instruments

Since the entry into force of Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 on market abuse (Market Abuse Regulation, MAR) on 3 July 2016 and due to the coming into effect of Regulation (EU) No. 600/2014 on markets for financial instruments (MiFIR) on 3 January 2018, the respective exchanges are obligated to transmit reference data for all traded securities on a daily basis.

Apart from transmitting specific securities- and admission-related data, the respective reference data reports must include the reporting of a Legal Entity Identifier (“LEI”) of the issuer. Moreover, with the implementation of MiFID II/MiFIR, this reference data will be used as basis for transaction data reporting from January 2018.

Market Status XETR

XETR

The market status window is an indication regarding the current technical availability of the trading system. It indicates whether news board messages regarding current technical issues of the trading system have been published or will be published shortly.

Please find further information about incident handling in the Emergency Playbook published on the webpage under Data & Tech > Information Channels > Emergency procedures. Detailed information about incident communication, market re-opening procedures and best practices for order and trade reconciliation can be found in the chapters 4.2, 4.3 and 4.5, respectively. Concrete information for the respective incident will be published during the incident via newsboard message

We strongly recommend not to take any decisions based on the indications in the market status window but to always check the production news board for comprehensive information on an incident.

Emergency procedures

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