MAR 8.6 Responsibility for benchmark activities: benchmark contributors

Application

MAR 8.6.1R
  1. (1)

    1This section applies to benchmark contributors save as provided for in (2).

  2. (2)

    This section does not apply to a benchmark contributor to the extent that it is contributing input data in relation to a commodity benchmark the provision of which is governed by Annex II to the benchmarks regulation (in accordance with article 19 of that regulation).

Responsibility for contributing input data

MAR 8.6.2R

1A benchmark contributor must promptly notify the FCA of the senior personnel responsible for the process for contributing input data to a BMR benchmark administrator.

MAR 8.6.3G
  1. (1)

    1The FCA expects a benchmark contributor to ensure a member of its senior personnel is responsible for the process of contributing input data to a BMR benchmark administrator regardless of whether the contribution is provided from the UK or from elsewhere.

  2. (2)

    1The requirement in MAR 8.6.2R applies regardless of whether the benchmark contributor contributes input data from the UK or from elsewhere.

MAR 8.6.4G

1A UK benchmark contributor or third country benchmark contributor which is an SMCR firm2 may comply with the requirement in MAR 8.6.2R to notify the FCA of the senior personnel responsible for the process for contributing input data to a BMR benchmark administrator by including that responsibility in that person’s statement of responsibilities.