Foreign Exchange Compliance Automation

Derivative Trade Reporting

Streamline your foreign exchange derivative trade reporting workflow. Turn your investment in compliance technology into a high ROI partnership.

1000's

Hours

Saved in managing trade reporting obligations

100%

Accuracy

FX derivative trade reporting

<15 Cents

Per Transaction

For most reporters using Kooltra & KOR Financial

Global institutions offering FX products have derivative trade reporting obligations

  • Any company offering foreign exchange derivatives (i.e., T+2 or greater settlement) will have an obligation to report trades to one or multiple securities regulators, including CFTC (US), CSA (Canada), ASIC (Australia), MAS (Singapore) and many others.
  • In addition to reporting trades, company's are also required to report ongoing lifecycle events (i.e., option exercises, option expiries), mark-to-market valluations, and collateral positions throughout the lifetime of the derivative.
  • These requirements are not limited to foreign exchange dealers. Any company offering B2B cross border payment services and trading foreign exchange to buy the foreign currency must also report if trades do not settle within spot.

Current reporting processes create several challenges for operations and compliance teams

  • Challenge 1: Regular re-writes and changes to reporting obligations, like the June 2025 CSA re-write in Canada, are expensive and time consuming to manage.
  • Challenge 2: Legacy trading and operations systems are not prepared to meet evolving reporting requirements like UTI (Unique Transaction Identifier) and UPI (Unique Product Identifier), resulting in inefficient manual processes.
  • Challenge 3: Existing reporting solutions are expensive, time consuming to implement, and built on outdated technology.

How Kooltra can help solve your FX derivative reporting challenges

  • Kooltra offers a comprehensive FX derivative trade reporting solution for obligations in CSA (Canada), US (CFTC), Australia (ASIC), and Singapore (MAS).
  • Our platform is built on Salesforce and always up-to-date with the latest reporting requirements, allowing compliance teams to know their data will be reported correctly today and in the future.
  • Our FX derivative trade reporting solution supports the entire workflow including:
    1. Ingesting trades via API, Bulk Upload, or Manual Input and validating data for reporting
    2. UTI (Unique Transaction Identifier) enrichment and management for trades your institution originates
    3. End-to-end integration with KOR Financial, a reporting service provider, who directly submits to the appropriate trade repository (i.e., CSA, CFTC, ASIC, etc.)
    4. Managing and reporting lifecycle events such as trade updates, option exercises, or terminations
    5. Alerting users and providing remediation steps when there are exceptions or other issues with trade reports
    6. Logging historical events for easy auditing and internal reporting

KOR Financial and Kooltra Partnership

  • KOR Financial is a cutting-edge regtech business that specializes in derivative trade reporting and acts a trade repository or reporting service provider depending on the region.
  • Kooltra is integrated directly with KOR Financial and operates as the trade for FX businesses with derivative trade reporting obligations.
  • As a result of the partnership, KOR Financial and Kooltra are providing institutions an unmatched derivative trade reporting offer (see pricing tiers below).

Supported FX Transaction Types

  • Kooltra supports derivative trade reporting for the following FX products: Forwards, Window Forwards, NDFs, Swaps, NDS, Vanilla Options, Barrier Options, and Structured Products (TARFs).

Supported Data Ingestion Methods

  • REST API: Kooltra offers a modern REST API that can be used to send all relevant trades and counterparty details.
  • Bulk Upload: Kooltra supports bulk upload of trades using excel files or excel connector.
  • Manual Input: Kooltra has user interfaces that enables customers to enter and modify trades manually.

Starter

$500

per month for 1 User

  • Report up to 250 trades per month to KOR
  • Input up to 2,500 transactions /month
  • Manual Trade Capture
  • Spot, forward, swaps, NDFs
  • FX, Metals, Crypto
  • Low latency trade blotters
  • Counterparty management
  • Trade Blotters
  • Basic support

Unlimited

$1500

per month for up to 3 Users

Everything in Starter PLUS...

  • Report unlimited Trades to KOR TR or DTCC TR
  • 100 Client Portal Logins /month
  • Input up to 10,000 transactions /month
  • Kooltra Comply
  • KYC Onboarding Forms
  • Compliance Workflows
  • Kooltra Core
    • Multi-currency accounts (Nostro/Vostro)
    • Settlement workflows
    • SSI/Beneficiary Management

Available Add-Ons

  • 25,000 transactions /month ($)

Comply+

Contact Us

per month

Everything in Unlimited PLUS...

  • Transaction Monitoring
  • Confirmations
  • Electronic Matching

Customer Success Story

History of global derivative trade reporting

  • 2008: the Global Financial Crisis exposed major weaknesses in the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets — especially around opacity, counterparty risk, and systemic contagion.
  • 2009: the G20 agreed to a new derivative reporting system to increase market transparency. Derivatives, as defined by local securities regulators, need to be reported to a Derivative Trade repository (DTR). You also need to report ongoing life cycle events, valuations, and collateral reports through the lifetime of the derivative.

Current derivative trade reporting rules by jurisdiction

As of June 2025, this is the current stage of implementation for each country in the G20

Country Regulatory Body Summary of Current Trade Reporting Rules
Argentina Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV) Over-the-counter (OTC) derivative trade reporting framework is currently under development and there are limited reporting requirements.
Australia Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ASIC Derivative Transaction Rules (Reporting) 2024 currently govern derivative transaction reporting Key updates in 2024: 1. Alignment with ISO 20022 and other international standards for data elements 2. Unique Product Identifier (UPI) required for each prodcut, rath than relying on ISDA taxonomy 3. Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI) required for each trade 4. Reporting deadline was generally increased from T+1 to T+2
Brazil Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), Banco Central do Brasil OTC derivative transactions must be reported to an established and regulated Brazilian Entity. Reporting is typically required on same day and requires simultaneous trade reports from both parties. BM&FBOVESPA typically acts as the primary trade repostiroy for derivatives, futures, and options.
Canada Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) CSA re-write for Canada trade reporting rules will be implemented on July 25, 2025 Key updates include: 1. Harmonization of the Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI) with global standards 2. Unique Product Identifier (UPI) required for all asset classes 3. Derivatives dealers to report valuation, collateral, and margin data 4. ISO 20022 was not included, meaning we may expect another re-write in 2026
China CSRC, People’s Bank of China (PBOC) As of 2023, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) established requirements for local securities companies to report derivatives trades to trade repositories. This has been an effort to align more with the G20 initiative, but does not include critical items like harmonization of Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI) and only covers specific asset classes (i.e., equities)
European Union European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) + national competent authorities The European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) trade reporting requirements mandate that all derivative transactions, both over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange-traded, must be reported to a trade repository. Following the "EMIR Refit" of 2019, there was another update in 2024 with critical updates: 1. Reports of margin updates (collateral) must be made daily 2. Mandatory reporting requirements of OTC and exchange-traded derivatives for non-financial counterparties who are delegating trades to financial counterparties
France AMF (Autorité des marchés financiers), under ESMA/EMIR France is governed by EMIR derivative trade reporting requirements. The rules are enforced locally by the AMF. In addition, the AMF has local rules for equity derivatives transactions involving France-based issuer's shares.
Germany BaFin, under ESMA/EMIR Germany is governed by EMIR derivative trade reporting requirements. The rules are enforced locally by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, BaFin. Foreign direct investments and related transactions have special local requirements that are covered under the German Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance.
India Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Banks and primary dealers acting as market makers have a requirement to report trades to the Clearing Corporation of India Limited (CCIL), the country's authorized Trade Repository. Overall, India's requirements are not as extensive as other G20 countries. For example, Forwards and Swaps need to be reported daily while Options can be reported weekly.
Indonesia Bank Indonesia Under the Indonesian Banking Act, Bank Indonesia maintains requirements for domestic banks to report Foreign Exchange (FX) and interest rate derivatives. However, Bank Indonesia does not currently issue any guidance for domestic banks to report their over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives to offshore Trade Repositories (TRs).
Italy CONSOB, under ESMA/EMIR Italy is governed by EMIR derivative trade reporting requirements. The rules are enforced locally by CONSOB. CONSOB plays a critical role in ensuring transparency and integrity in the Italian derivatives market by setting position limits and providing regulatory oversight/enforcement.
Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA) In April 2024, the JFSA revised its reporting requirements for OTC derivatives. Critical updates include: 1. Mandatory reporting to Trade Repositories. Previously, this was not mandatory. 2. Expanded data fields (139 fields now required) and ISO20022 messaging standards 3. Unique Transaction Identifiers (UTI) and Unique Product Identifiers (UPI) are now required
Mexico Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV) and Banco de México Reporting requirements apply to some asset classes, including over-the-counter (OTC) equity derivatives, swaps, forwards, and options.... Authorized reporting entities include banks, broker-dealers, pension funds, and other financial institutions. These authorized entities must report all trades to Banxico's Domestic Trade Repository. The rules were most recently updates in January 2025.
Russia Bank of Russia All over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives must be reported to a Russian Trade Repository. The NSD (National Settlment Depository) is the large trade repository.
Saudi Arabia Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), Capital Market Authority (CMA) SAMA requires that all licensed banks must report OTC derivatives trades for the following asset classes: Foreign Exchange, Interest Rates, Equities, Credit, Commodities. Both OTC and exchange-traded derivatives must be reported.
South Africa Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA), South African Reserve Bank (SARB) As of November 2024, Strate, the central securities depository has been granted the first Trade Repository (TR) license by the FSCA. Critical reporting requirements include: 1. Common data fields: UTI (Unique Transaction Identifier), UPI (Unique Product Identifier), and LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) 2. Asset classes: all OTC derivatives asset classes (FX, interest rate, credit, equity, commodity)
South Korea Financial Services Commission (FSC), Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) enforces the reporting rules as defined by the Finanical Services Commission (FSC). Under the latest guidance (2022), OTC derivatives must be reported to a Trade Repostiory (TR) for asset classes including equities, credit, commodities, FX, and interest rates. In Q4 2025 it is expected that UTI (Unique Transaction Identifier), UPI (Unique Product Identifier), and other Critical Data Elements (CDE) will be added to the list of requirements. Notably, non-compliance can currently be met with fines of up to KRW 100 Million (~USD 73,000).
Turkey Capital Markets Board of Turkey (CMB) As of 2020, licensed financial institutions (i.e., banks, brokers) and turkish-resident counterparties must report all OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives to a domestic TR (trade repository). In-scope asset classes include: FX (Foreign Exchange), equity, interest rates, commodities, and credit.
United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) The UK has adapted the EU EMIR rules ("UK EMIR") post-brexit. In 2024, the UK EMIR "Refit" was implemented to align with CPMI-IOSCO data standards. Key reporting requirements changes are below: 1. Critical data elements (CDE) on all transactions including, Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI) and Unique Product Identifier (UPI) 2. Transaction lifecycle events, collateral, and valuation reports
United States CFTC (OTC swaps), SEC (equity/credit security-based swaps) Reporting parties include: swap dealers (SDs), swap execution facilities (SEFs), major swap participants (MSPs), and designated contract markets (DCMs) Critical data elements (CDE) are aligned to CPMI-IOSCO standards, meaning Unique Product Identifier (UPI), Unique Transaction Identifier (UTI), LEIs, and 78 other fields are required. The latest CFTC update was in December 2024 which was Phase 2 of the 2022 rewrite.

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