The examples in this block cover the population of the Venue Field and other relevant fields for the direct market transaction. It should be noted that as explained in section 5.4.2 on ‘Reporting of the Venue Field for chains’ only the direct execution of the Trading Venue [Including instances where trades agreed outside the Trading Venue are brought under the rules of that Trading Venue.] or trading platform or SI should be identified as being on the venue. For examples of population of the Venue Field in other situations please see 5.22 to 5.24 and 5.26-5.27 (scenarios related to multiple executions, grouping orders, OTF acting on a matched principal basis and execution through a chain of Investment Firms, transmission, and Investment Firm acting under a discretionary mandate).

The details of how to report transactions in particular financial instruments are set out in Part IV.

5.14.1 Executing a transaction on a Trading Venue in an anonymous order book

Example 30

Investment Firm X sells a financial instrument on a Trading Venue. The transaction was executed on 5 May 2018 at 09:10:33.124373. The Trading Venue generates a Trading venue transaction identification code (TVTIC) (ABCDEFG123456).

a) Trading Venue M (which uses a central counterparty)