Trade & Transaction Reporting Services

Ensure your MiFID/MiFIR and EMIR reports are accurate, complete, and timely with expert support.

Regulatory reporting has become increasingly complex, with the FCA prioritizing enhanced reporting oversight. Over £130m in fines have already been issued for MiFID and EMIR reporting failures. Prompt error identification reduces compliance risks, regulatory scrutiny, and the cost of re-reporting.

Our award-winning trade and transaction reporting solutions help firms detect and remediate reporting issues efficiently, minimizing regulatory and operational burdens.

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Our solutions

Systems and Controls Reviews

Assess and enhance your reporting framework with expert-led reviews.

We evaluate the design and operation of your reporting controls, ensuring robust monitoring, oversight, and governance. Available as a standalone service or integrated with ARRMA, these reviews cover multiple reporting regimes.

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Ongoing, cost-effective transaction reporting analysis.

ARRMA combines advanced technology with expert consulting to identify errors and ensure reporting accuracy. Our monthly or quarterly reviews provide deep insights while reducing the burden on internal resources.

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Training

Specialist training on regulatory reporting and compliance.

We offer tailored training on transaction reporting, EMIR, market abuse, trade surveillance, governance, and senior management obligations—delivered by industry experts.

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Solution Spotlight

Free transaction reporting review

Discover how compliant your reports are with a free ARRMA one-time analysis to identify the percentage of your reports with errors.

97% of firms analyzed by ARRMA have reporting errors and many firms remain non-compliant by failing to incorporate Market Data Processor (MDP) data in MiFIR transaction reporting.

Book your free review to assess your reporting framework today.

Our team

Charlotte Longman

Charlotte Longman

Managing Director and Lead, ACA's Regulatory Reporting & Assurance (ARRMA) Service
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Andraé Young

Principal Consultant
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Why work with us?

Our deep expertise

Our deep expertise in compliance and market surveillance technology can help strengthen your trade and transaction reporting programme, identify potential business and compliance risks, and avoid potential problems arising with key stakeholders, regulators, and current and prospective clients.

Our specialist team

Our specialist trade and transaction reporting service team has performed numerous EMIR and MiFIR reviews, from high-level control testing to full scope data analysis, logic specification and control design projects.

Our insights and benchmarking

We provide insights from quantitative ARRMA peer analysis to help you understand how your firm compares to its industry peers. This benchmarking is a valuable addition to your firm’s management body reporting as part of ongoing governance.

Latest trade and transaction reporting insights

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Case Study: Global Investment Firm Turns to ACA's ARRMA to Boost Transaction Reporting

Examining how ACA's transaction reporting team and ARRMA services helped a global investment firm to identify several areas where improvements could be made, creating a usable roadmap for compliance with transaction reporting, as their firm grows into a multiple new asset classes.

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  • Trade & Transaction
  • FCA
  • Compliance
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FCA Market Watch 69: Focus on Market Conduct and Transaction Reporting

The regulator discusses firms’ arrangements for market abuse surveillance - drawing on their observations from engaging with small and medium-sized firms.

Compliance Alert
  • Compliance
  • RegTech
  • FCA
  • Trade & Transaction
  • Trade Surveillance
  • ComplianceAlpha
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Transaction Reporting Still Not a Priority for Firms, Despite Recent ESMA Fine

New research reveals that confidence among financial services firms in the quality of their own transaction reporting is declining – down to 65% from 87% in 2021. This confirms concerns around inaccurate regulatory reporting leading to fears of undetected market abuse and an inability to monitor for systemic risks.

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  • Compliance
  • FCA
  • Trade & Transaction
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Transaction Reporting: A Common Good, Commonly Wrong

Startling findings have detected that most firms are struggling with their transaction reporting obligations under MiFIR / EMIR. Results reveal more than 6M transaction reporting errors identified across a sample of 30 review projects, averaging 200,000 errors per review. This means that regulators are not receiving the data they need to successfully identify market abuse and systemic risk.

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  • Compliance
  • FCA
  • Trade & Transaction
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Transaction Reporting Errors Expose Huge Gaps for Market Abuse and Systemic Risk Monitoring

ACA Group research has detected more than 6 million transaction reporting errors across a sample of 30 review projects, averaging 200,000 errors per review, with 97% of reports under MiFIR/EMIR contain inaccuracies. These errors expose huge gaps for market abuse and systemic risk monitoring.

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  • Compliance
  • Trade & Transaction
  • ACA News
  • FCA
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Key Regulatory Timelines for 2022

To help firms prepare for the new year, we’ve created a simple visual timeline of key financial services regulatory milestones for you to download, keep, and reference throughout 2022.

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  • Compliance
  • ESG
  • Brexit
  • SEC
  • Managed Services
  • Trade & Transaction

Featured webcasts

MiFIR Transaction Reporting: A Practical Guide

Join us on Monday, 19 July at 11:00am BST for a complimentary webcast to mark the forthcoming launch of AIMA’s MiFIR Transaction Reporting Guide that has been developed with the support of ACA Group.

Webcast

EMIR Refit: Reporting Checklist

The most recent phase of the amended European Market Infrastructure Regulation (“EMIR REFIT” or simply “REFIT”) came into effect on 18 June 2020. These latest requirements are designed to simplify a derivatives regime currently seen as burdensome to some market participants, particularly those whose risk profile is unlikely to impact macro stability.

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News

ACA Group Acquires Global Trading Analytics to Offer Clients Leading Transaction Cost Analysis Capabilities

ACA Group Acquires Global Trading Analytics to Offer Clients Leading Transaction Cost Analysis Capabilities

Five ACA Group Leaders Recognized Among the 2&20 Top 100 Most Influential People in the Service Provision for Alternative Investment Firms

Five ACA Group Leaders Recognized Among the 2&20 Top 100 Most Influential People in the Service Provision for Alternative Investment Firms

ACA Group Recognized as RegTech100 Company for Fifth Consecutive Year

ACA Group Recognized as RegTech100 Company for Fifth Consecutive Year