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Regulatory Reporting Using LEI in Canada In Canada, the LEI threads through the reporting frameworks supervised by the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) — principally CSA Multilateral Instrument 96-101 — identifying the reporting entity and its counterparties.
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), through the CSA Derivatives Committee; the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) for federally regulated institutions; and the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) for dealers oversee the frameworks that reference the LEI. The headline regime is CSA Multilateral Instrument 96-101, alongside prudential and statistical reporting.
As the reporting-party and counterparty identifier across derivatives, transaction and prudential reporting.
Reports are rejected at DTCC Data Repository (US) LLC and ICE Trade Vault Canada, and the reporting obligation remains unmet until the LEI is reinstated.
Annual renewal and accurate reference data prevent the lapse that causes most reporting failures.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), through CSA Derivatives Committee; OSFI for federally-regulated institutions; CIRO for dealers.
A lapsed or inaccurate LEI.
CSA Multilateral Instrument 96-101.