FIX and Regulations

Financial regulation has a direct impact on many FIX member firms and how they conduct their business.  The FIX Trading Community is independent and neutral, focused on transparency, operational efficiency and mitigating risk.  FIX responds to regulations with a focus on promoting the use of global standards to deliver clear and unambiguous data, improve the quality of implementation and reduce costs to the industry.

This page is a repository of documented regulatory consultation responses and other relevant materials provided by the FIX Trading Community in addressing regulatory requirements across the globe.

Current Consultations

Targeted consultation on integration of EU capital markets

ESMA MiFIR Review (CP4) – Derivatives transparency

Regional Repository

Please visit the below links to view previous responses submitted on behalf of the FIX Trading Community.

Asia-Pacific

Responses

EMEA

Responses

Americas

Responses

Global

Responses

Documentation

Asia Pacific

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FIX Trading Community response to Consultation Paper on Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management from the Monetary Authority of Singapore 225.00 KB 13 downloads February 12, 2026

FIX Trading Community response to Consultation Paper on Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management from the Monetary Authority of Singapore ...
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SFC-FIX Response to OTC Derivatives Regulatory Regime in Hong Kong 106.04 KB 3218 downloads August 27, 2012

FIX responded to a consultation from the SFC on the OTC Derivatives regulatory regime for Hong Kong. ...
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ASIC-FIX Adopted for Short Position Reporting 184.20 KB 1306 downloads August 12, 2010

FIX welcomes the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC™s) adoption of the FIX Protocol messaging standard for the reporting of short positions. Use of FIX enables market participants...

    EMEA

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    FCA consultation CP25-32 on transaction reporting 319.11 KB 6 downloads February 23, 2026

    FIX response to FCA consultation CP25-32 on improving the UK transaction reporting regime, February 2026 ...
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    FCA consultation CP25-31 on the equities consolidated tape 985.92 KB 8 downloads February 18, 2026

    FIX response to FCA consultation CP25-31 on the equities consolidated tape, February 2026 ...
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    Regulatory Testing of Algorithms - Overview of Relevant Regulations 1.19 MB 326 downloads October 21, 2025

    Regulatory Background References for EU/UK Testing of Algorithms for Contribution to Disorderly Trading Conditions and Stress Testing under MiFID II/MAR and Operational Resilience under PS 21/3 ...
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    FIX Trading Community response to ESMA's call for evidence on Transaction Reporting 0.00 KB 151 downloads September 22, 2025

    FIX Trading Community responds to ESMA's Call for evidence on a comprehensive approach for the simplification of financial transaction reporting ...
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    FIX Trading Community responds to the FCA's CP25/20 1.03 MB 110 downloads September 11, 2025

    FIX Trading Community response to the FCA's CP25/20: The SI regime for bonds and derivatives including Discussion Paper on equity markets. ...
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    FIX response to ESMA's MiFIR CP4 398.58 KB 59 downloads July 3, 2025

    Response to the "​​MiFIR Review: Consultation Package 4 - transparency for derivatives, package orders and input/output data for the derivatives consolidated tape" ...
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    EC Consultation 2025 Press release 204.45 KB 72 downloads June 19, 2025

    FIX Trading Community responds to European Commission targeted consultation on development and integration of EU capital markets ...
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    FIX responses to the EC consultation 191.32 KB 87 downloads June 17, 2025

    FIX response to the European Commission's targeted consultation on integration of EU capital markets ...
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    Consultation Paper on the Amendments to the RTS on Settlement Discipline 83.46 KB 260 downloads April 16, 2025

    FIX Trading Community to ESMA’s consultation on amendments to the RTS on settlement discipline, covering standards and automation in middle and back office processes to support T+1 implementation   ...
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    FCA DP 24-2 - Improving the UK transaction reporting regime 206.44 KB 168 downloads February 13, 2025

    FIX Trading Community response to FCA DP 24-2 ...
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    ESMA MiFIR Review - Technical Standards related to Consolidated Tape Providers and DRSPs, and assessment criteria for the CTP selection procedure 716.65 KB 560 downloads August 27, 2024

    FIX Trading Community response (equities and fixed income consolidated tape working groups, global technical committee) ...
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    ESMA MiFIR Review - RTS 2, RTS on reasonable commercial basis and RTS 23 708.30 KB 411 downloads August 27, 2024

    FIX Trading Community Response (fixed income consolidated tape and reference data working groups) ...
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    European Commission Delegated Regulation on OTC Derivative Instrument Identification 794.72 KB 229 downloads July 11, 2024

    EC OTC derivatives identifying reference data consultation FIX Trading Community Response ...
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    CP23/32 – FCA consultation on bond and derivative market transparency - FIX Trading Community response 4.58 MB 1187 downloads April 3, 2024

    This contains three files – the FCA’s consultation paper, the full response from the FIX Trading Community (‘response summary’) and a shortened version containing just the questions actually responsed...
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    FTC Response to CP23-15 Framework for a Consolidated Tape Final Submission 97.33 KB 273 downloads October 13, 2023

    CP23/15 – The framework for a UK consolidated tape - FIX Trading Community response. ...
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    DSS Letter Fix Trading Community Sept 2023 330.14 KB 227 downloads October 9, 2023

    The FIX Trading Community is the industry-driven standards body whose standards underpin the global electronic trading community. We have been producing technical and business standards for nearly thirty...
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    Manual on Post-Trade Transparency - Response 78.30 KB 385 downloads April 4, 2023

    FIX Trading Community response on Post-Trade Transparency Manual ...
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    ESMA Market Outages - Consultation Paper Response 105.50 KB 397 downloads December 22, 2022

    FIX Trading Community response to ESMA's consultation regarding the management and communication of outages at trading venues, December 2022 ...
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    FIX Trading Community Response to CP22/12 259.02 KB 2718 downloads September 22, 2022

    FCA CP22/12 on Improving Equity Secondary Markets - FIX Trading Community response ...
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    ESMA Opinion on Trading Venue Perimeter - Response 81.46 KB 2598 downloads April 28, 2022

    FIX Trading Community response to ESMA's opinion regarding the Trading Venue Perimeter, January 2022 ...
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    ESMA DLT (distributed ledger technology) Pilot 88.01 KB 384 downloads March 31, 2022

    FIX Trading Community response to ESMA's call for evidence for the "DLT Pilot Regime and review of MiFIR regulatory technical standards on transparency and reporting", January 2022 ...
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    RTS 1 and 2 Consultation Response 235.06 KB 531 downloads September 23, 2021

    ESMA CONSULTATION RESPONSE – FINAL RESPONSE ...
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    ESMA - MiFID II_MiFIR CP on transaction reporting_refdata 285.54 KB 3083 downloads December 11, 2020

    FIX Trading Community response to the ESMA consultation paper on MiFIR review report on the obligations to report transactions and reference data (November 2020) ...
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    ESMA - Technical Standards on reporting_data quality_data access 170.84 KB 631 downloads July 3, 2020

    03 July 2020 - This document is the FIX response to the ESMA consultation paper on the technical standards on reporting requirements, procedures to reconcile and validate the data and access by the relevant...

      Americas

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      Financial Data Transparency Act Joint Data Standards 26.25 KB 231 downloads October 21, 2024

      Response to consultation on Financial Data Transparency Act Joint Data Standards (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/22/2024-18415/financial-data-transparency-act-joint-data-standards) as...
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      Regulation Best Execution SEC submission March 23 23.29 KB 360 downloads March 31, 2023

      Response to SEC rule proposal of December 2022 relating to Best Execution ...
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      Order Competition Rule SEC submission March 23 23.14 KB 332 downloads March 31, 2023

      Response to SEC Order Competition Rule rule proposal of December 2022 ...
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      Disclosure of Order Execution Information SEC submission March 23 22.73 KB 320 downloads March 31, 2023

      Response to SEC rule proposal of December 2022 relating to Order Execution disclosures ...
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      SEC shortened settlement cycle proposal response (April 2022) 26.00 KB 381 downloads April 12, 2022

      FIX Trading Community response to SEC proposal for shortening the settlement cycle (post trade working group, April 2022) ...
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      SEC 10c-1 securities loan reporting (supplementary response) 41.11 KB 460 downloads April 1, 2022

      FIX Trading Community supplementary response to SEC's proposed exchange act rule 10c-1 for the reporting of securities loans, as of April 2022 ...
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      FIX response to SEC rule 10c-1 (securities loan reporting) 169.73 KB 1178 downloads January 5, 2022

      SEC rule 10c-1 proposal response from FIX Trading Community In late 2001, the SEC issued a proposal for a new exchange act rule (10c-1) covering the reporting of securities loan activity. The FIX Trading...
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      FINRA - FIX Responds to Proposed Changes to TRACE Reporting 86.82 KB 548 downloads October 5, 2020

      14th September 2020 - FIX Trading Community's response to Regulatory Notice 20-24 in regards to two proposed changes to the TRACE reporting rules.   Click here to view the response on line. ...
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      SEC - FIX Response to Alternative Identifiers for Securities 231.14 KB 401 downloads August 27, 2020

      12 August 2020: SEC - FIX Trading Community's response to the SEC File No. S7-08-20; Reporting Threshold for Institutional Investment Managers. Response to Q#25 regarding the permission for additional...

        Global (IOSCO)

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        IOSCO - FIX Response to Harmonisation of the UPI 265.41 KB 589 downloads February 24, 2016

        Harmonisation of the UPI ...
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        IOSCO - FIX Response to CR02/11 Regulatory Issues Raised by the Impact of Technological Changes on Market Integrity and Efficiency 479.21 KB 638 downloads August 12, 2011

        FIX's Response to IOSCO Consultation - CR02/11 Regulatory Issues Raised by the Impact of Technological Changes on Market Integrity and Efficiency ...