Field 59 should be populated in every transaction report. In cases where the decision about the execution was made by a client (e.g. the client instructs the details of the trade including the venue of execution) or by another person from outside the Investment Firm (e.g. an employee of a company within the same group), Investment Firms should use the default value ‘NORE’ in this field.
Example 28
Investment Firm X buys a financial instrument on behalf of a client, where the details of the trade were specifically instructed by that client.
How should Investment Firm X report the execution within the Firm field?
If the field is filled with a code other than ‘NORE’, the code is - as set out in the Article 9 of the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/590 - either the identifier of a person within the Investment Firm or the identifier of an algorithm within the Investment Firm, depending on which is primarily responsible for the execution. This is the responsibility of the
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