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MiFID II - Directive 2014/65/EU

Article 16 - Record-keeping and order handling

Article 16(6) requires an investment firm to arrange for records to be kept of all services, activities and transactions it undertakes, sufficient to enable the competent authority to fulfil its supervisory tasks and to perform enforcement actions. The clause is about supervisory reconstructability: a firm must be able to show, after the fact, what it did and in what order.

What Article 16(6) and 16(7) ask for

Records sufficient to enable the competent authority to ascertain that the firm has complied with all obligations, including those with respect to clients and to the integrity of the market. Under Article 16(7), records include the recording of telephone conversations or electronic communications relating to, at least, transactions concluded when dealing on own account and the provision of client order services that relate to the reception, transmission and execution of client orders.

The field-by-field mapping

Which record fields answer this clause, one by one, comes with the procurement pack and with every pilot. Request the pack.

A receipt gives the record-keeping obligation a per-activity artefact a competent authority can verify against the published key, without access to the firm’s systems. Designed for the reconstructability Article 16 asks for. Aqta issues signed evidence, not a certification of MiFID II compliance.

Read Article 16 on EUR-Lex or read the full open spec at github.com/Aqta-ai/attestation-spec.

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