Art. 17

(Art. 120 para. 1, 123 para. 1 FinMIA)

1. Lending transactions and similar transactions, such as repurchase agreements or collateral transactions with transfer of ownership must be reported.
2. The notification duty is only incumbent on the contracting party acquiring temporary ownership of the securities through such transactions:
   1. for lending transactions: the borrower;
   2. for repurchase agreements: the buyer; and
   3. for collateral transactions: the collateral taker.
3. On expiry of the transaction, the returning contracting party under paragraph 2 is again subject to a notification duty if a threshold in accordance with Article 120 paragraph 1 FinMIA is reached or fallen below.
4. Lending transactions and repurchase agreements do not need to be reported if they are processed in a standardised manner via trading platforms for liquidity management purposes.