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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-Q

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY




Investment Company Act file number: (811-07513)
Exact name of registrant as specified in charter: Putnam Funds Trust
Address of principal executive offices: One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Name and address of agent for service: Robert T. Burns, Vice President
One Post Office Square
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Copy to:         Bryan Chegwidden, Esq.
Ropes & Gray LLP
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (617) 292-1000
Date of fiscal year end: July 31, 2017
Date of reporting period: April 30, 2017



Item 1. Schedule of Investments:














Putnam Short Term Investment Fund

The fund's portfolio
4/30/17 (Unaudited)
REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS (45.7%)(a)
Principal amount Value

Interest in $129,000,000 tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with Bank of Nova Scotia due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $129,008,600 for an effective yield of 0.800% (collateralized by various U.S. Treasury notes and bonds with coupon rates ranging from 0.125% to 4.750% and due dates ranging from 4/15/18 to 11/15/45, valued at $131,588,820) $129,000,000 $129,000,000
Interest in $150,000,000 joint tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with Barclays Capital, Inc. due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $100,006,667 for an effective yield of 0.800% (collateralized by various U.S. Treasury notes and bonds with coupon rates ranging from 0.125% to 1.750% and due dates ranging from 1/15/23 to 1/15/28, valued at $153,010,261) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Interest in $104,400,000 tri-party term repurchase agreement dated 4/26/17 with Barclays Capital, Inc. due 5/3/17 - maturity value of $104,416,037 for an effective yield of 0.790% (collateralized by various mortgage backed securities with coupon rates ranging from 2.500% to 4.500% and due dates ranging from 2/20/32 to 4/20/47, valued at $106,499,685) 104,400,000 104,400,000
Interest in $24,500,000 tri-party term repurchase agreement dated 4/25/17 with BNP Paribas due 5/25/17 - maturity value of $24,519,192 for an effective yield of 0.940% (collateralized by various corporate bonds and notes with coupon rates ranging from 1.500% to 7.125% and due dates ranging from 12/1/18 to 3/1/43, valued at $25,729,673) (IR) 24,500,000 24,500,000
Interest in $129,995,000 tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with BNP Paribas due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $130,004,100 for an effective yield of 0.840% (collateralized by various mortgage backed securities and U.S. Treasury notes with coupon rates ranging from 1.875% to 7.000% and due dates ranging from 9/30/17 to 5/1/47, valued at $132,604,210) 129,995,000 129,995,000
Interest in $231,000,000 joint tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $77,187,274 for an effective yield of 0.820% (collateralized by various U.S. Treasury notes with coupon rates ranging from 0.625% to 1.500% and due dates ranging from 9/30/17 to 8/15/26, valued at $235,620,010) 77,182,000 77,182,000
Interest in $169,000,000 joint tri-party term repurchase agreement dated 4/27/17 with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. due 5/4/17 - maturity value of $147,172,890 for an effective yield of 0.800% (collateralized by various U.S. Treasury notes and bonds and various mortgage backed securities with coupon rates ranging from 1.750% to 7.625% and due dates ranging from 10/31/18 to 2/15/47, valued at $172,380,031) 147,150,000 147,150,000
Interest in $40,000,000 tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with Goldman, Sachs & Co. due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $40,002,633 for an effective yield of 0.790% (collateralized by various mortgage backed securities with coupon rates ranging from 3.000% to 3.500% and due dates ranging from 12/1/29 to 5/1/43, valued at $40,800,000) 40,000,000 40,000,000
Interest in $120,528,000 tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with Goldman, Sachs & Co. due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $120,535,935 for an effective yield of 0.790% (collateralized by various mortgage backed securities with coupon rates ranging from 2.500% to 3.500% and due dates ranging from 11/1/31 to 12/1/46, valued at $122,938,561) 120,528,000 120,528,000
Interest in $250,000,000 joint tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with HSBC Bank USA, National Association due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $126,008,400 for an effective yield of 0.800% (collateralized by various mortgage backed securities with coupon rates ranging from 3.500% to 5.000% and due dates ranging from 2/1/23 to 6/1/45, valued at $255,002,072) 126,000,000 126,000,000
Interest in $50,000,000 tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $50,003,333 for an effective yield of 0.800% (collateralized by a U.S. Treasury note with a coupon rate of 1.500% and a due date of 12/31/18, valued at $51,004,951) 50,000,000 50,000,000
Interest in $50,000,000 tri-party term repurchase agreement dated 4/25/17 with J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC due 5/2/17 - maturity value of $50,007,583 for an effective yield of 0.780% (collateralized by various mortgage backed securities with coupon rates ranging from 2.000% to 10.000% and due dates ranging from 5/1/17 to 4/1/50, valued at $51,000,660) 50,000,000 50,000,000
Interest in $408,428,000 joint tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $126,008,400 for an effective yield of 0.800% (collateralized by various mortgage backed securities with coupon rates ranging from 2.083% to 4.500% and due dates ranging from 11/1/26 to 4/1/47, valued at $416,596,561) 126,000,000 126,000,000
Interest in $100,000,000 tri-party term repurchase agreement dated 4/25/17 with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. due 5/2/17 - maturity value of $100,015,167 for an effective yield of 0.780% (collateralized by a mortgage backed security with a coupon rate of 4.000% and a due date of 8/20/45, valued at $102,000,001) 100,000,000 100,000,000
Interest in $275,000,000 joint tri-party repurchase agreement dated 4/28/17 with RBC Capital Markets, LLC due 5/1/17 - maturity value of $130,531,702 for an effective yield of 0.800% (collateralized by various mortgage backed securities with coupon rates ranging from 2.000% to 5.500% and due dates ranging from 7/1/22 to 4/1/47, valued at $280,518,700) 130,523,000 130,523,000

Total repurchase agreements (cost $1,455,278,000) $1,455,278,000

COMMERCIAL PAPER (25.1%)(a)
Yield (%) Maturity date Principal amount Value

American Honda Finance Corp. 1.003 5/23/17 $8,000,000 $7,995,366
American Honda Finance Corp. 1.002 7/19/17 15,000,000 14,968,259
Apple, Inc. 0.882 5/1/17 25,000,000 24,998,446
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, Ltd (Australia) 1.033 7/21/17 15,000,000 14,964,790
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, Ltd. 144A (Australia) 1.033 6/23/17 10,000,000 9,985,284
Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. 1.151 5/10/17 14,000,000 13,994,684
BMW US Capital, LLC 0.861 5/9/17 11,000,000 10,997,160
BPCE SA (France) 1.063 5/8/17 26,000,000 25,993,219
Coca-Cola Co. (The) 0.862 5/11/17 25,000,000 24,992,895
Commonwealth Bank of Australia 144A (Australia) 1.282 8/17/17 10,000,000 10,008,230
Commonwealth Bank of Australia 144A (Australia) 1.166 8/4/17 5,000,000 5,004,065
Danaher Corp. 0.901 5/12/17 14,000,000 13,995,377
Danske Corp. 144A Ser. A (Denmark) 1.195 7/28/17 13,500,000 13,456,627
DnB Bank ASA (Norway) 0.951 5/12/17 5,055,000 5,053,213
DnB Bank ASA (Norway) 0.900 5/8/17 3,326,000 3,325,411
DnB Bank ASA 144A (Norway) 1.269 1/19/18 5,000,000 5,009,445
Dominion Gas Holdings, LLC 1.212 5/2/17 5,000,000 4,999,397
Experian Finance PLC (United Kingdom) 1.141 5/2/17 5,000,000 4,999,397
Experian Finance PLC (United Kingdom) 1.121 5/19/17 6,054,000 6,050,652
Experian Finance PLC (United Kingdom) 1.060 5/5/17 13,000,000 12,998,393
Export Development Canada (Canada) 1.003 8/1/17 30,000,000 29,928,638
Export Development Canada (Canada) 1.003 7/24/17 10,000,000 9,977,960
Export Development Canada (Canada) 0.852 5/26/17 24,000,000 23,984,918
Export Development Canada (Canada) 0.822 5/30/17 26,000,000 25,981,233
HSBC USA, Inc. 144A 1.249 5/3/17 15,000,000 15,001,125
HSBC USA, Inc. 144A 1.156 10/6/17 10,000,000 10,001,540
Medtronic Global Holdings SCA (Luxembourg) 1.121 5/5/17 14,000,000 13,997,033
Microsoft Corp. 0.821 6/6/17 29,000,000 28,973,329
Mizuho Bank, Ltd./NY 1.002 5/23/17 11,000,000 10,993,110
National Australia Bank, Ltd. 144A (Australia) 1.273 12/12/17 18,000,000 18,029,754
Nationwide Building Society 144A (United Kingdom) 1.154 8/2/17 13,500,000 13,456,728
Nestle Finance International, Ltd. (Switzerland) 0.881 6/5/17 27,202,000 27,178,369
Nestle Finance International, Ltd. (Switzerland) 0.850 5/15/17 13,000,000 12,995,120
Nordea Bank AB (Sweden) 0.877 5/2/17 25,000,000 24,997,442
NRW Bank (Germany) 1.103 7/6/17 14,000,000 13,971,825
Procter & Gamble Co. (The) 0.831 6/5/17 30,000,000 29,974,093
Prudential PLC (United Kingdom) 0.850 5/8/17 20,000,000 19,996,728
Rabobank Nederland NV/New York, NY (Netherlands) 1.208 8/7/17 15,000,000 14,954,760
Roche Holdings, Inc. (Switzerland) 0.871 5/17/17 3,000,000 2,998,694
Roche Holdings, Inc. (Switzerland) 0.866 6/6/17 25,000,000 24,976,844
Siemens Capital Co., LLC 0.820 5/23/17 15,000,000 14,991,323
Simon Property Group LP 1.012 6/5/17 8,800,000 8,791,798
Simon Property Group LP 0.982 5/22/17 4,000,000 3,997,701
Simon Property Group LP 0.922 5/1/17 11,950,000 11,949,169
Swedbank AB (Sweden) 1.177 7/28/17 25,000,000 24,935,985
Toronto-Dominion Holdings USA, Inc. (Canada) 1.133 6/23/17 5,000,000 4,992,277
Total Capital Canada, Ltd. (Canada) 1.033 7/18/17 20,000,000 19,956,080
Total Capital Canada, Ltd. (Canada) 0.871 5/12/17 10,000,000 9,996,621
Toyota Motor Credit Corp. 0.955 6/5/17 28,000,000 28,010,024
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 1.202 6/26/17 14,000,000 13,973,201
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. 1.000 5/1/17 14,000,000 13,999,901
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 0.820 5/10/17 13,700,000 13,696,411
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 0.810 5/1/17 11,900,000 11,899,232
Westpac Banking Corp. 144A (Australia) 1.167 3/2/18 11,000,000 11,008,404

Total commercial paper (cost $798,297,652) $798,357,680

ASSET-BACKED COMMERCIAL PAPER (9.9%)(a)
Yield (%) Maturity date Principal amount Value

Alpine Securitization, Ltd. (Cayman Islands) 1.224 7/3/17 $10,000,000 $9,980,237
Alpine Securitization, Ltd. 144A (Cayman Islands) 1.131 6/6/17 14,750,000 14,733,846
Bedford Row Funding Corp. 144A 1.459 5/15/17 10,000,000 10,002,490
CAFCO, LLC 1.184 6/26/17 11,500,000 11,482,698
Chariot Funding, LLC 0.881 5/5/17 25,000,000 24,995,625
CHARTA, LLC 1.124 7/5/17 8,000,000 7,983,317
CHARTA, LLC 1.001 5/2/17 5,000,000 4,999,493
CRC Funding, LLC 1.154 6/13/17 10,690,000 10,675,972
CRC Funding, LLC 0.951 5/24/17 2,300,000 2,298,385
CRC Funding, LLC 0.920 5/9/17 6,590,000 6,588,168
CRC Funding, LLC 0.901 5/23/17 7,000,000 6,995,819
Fairway Finance Co., LLC 144A (Canada) 1.123 8/2/17 15,000,000 14,953,440
Gotham Funding Corp. (Japan) 1.204 6/27/17 4,000,000 3,992,933
Gotham Funding Corp. (Japan) 1.051 5/25/17 11,000,000 10,991,940
Liberty Street Funding, LLC (Canada) 1.245 8/2/17 14,000,000 13,956,544
Liberty Street Funding, LLC (Canada) 1.021 5/30/17 15,000,000 14,986,734
Manhattan Asset Funding Co., LLC (Japan) 1.001 5/17/17 9,000,000 8,995,535
Manhattan Asset Funding Co., LLC (Japan) 1.001 5/10/17 19,000,000 18,994,224
MetLife Short Term Funding, LLC 1.104 6/28/17 12,330,000 12,308,418
MetLife Short Term Funding, LLC 0.962 7/10/17 5,000,000 4,989,562
MetLife Short Term Funding, LLC 144A 0.751 5/1/17 12,000,000 11,999,140
Old Line Funding, LLC 1.225 8/17/17 14,000,000 13,948,243
Old Line Funding, LLC 144A 1.225 8/15/17 14,700,000 14,646,857
Regency Markets No. 1, LLC 0.981 5/12/17 15,000,000 14,994,645
Thunder Bay Funding, LLC 0.901 5/22/17 5,000,000 4,997,165
Thunder Bay Funding, LLC 144A 1.062 7/6/17 26,000,000 25,945,832
Victory Receivables Corp. (Japan) 1.052 6/19/17 15,000,000 14,973,112

Total asset-backed commercial paper (cost $316,423,540) $316,410,374

U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY OBLIGATIONS (6.5%)(a)
Yield (%) Maturity date Principal amount Value

Federal Home Loan Banks unsec. discount notes 0.827 7/12/17 $25,000,000 $24,958,000
Federal Home Loan Banks unsec. discount notes 0.761 5/17/17 30,000,000 29,990,130
Federal Home Loan Banks unsec. discount notes 0.760 5/19/17 7,000,000 6,997,410
Federal Home Loan Banks unsec. discount notes 0.760 5/12/17 18,250,000 18,245,876
Federal Home Loan Banks unsec. discount notes 0.750 5/26/17 46,150,000 46,129,163
Federal Home Loan Banks unsec. discount notes 0.750 5/10/17 28,601,000 28,595,709
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation unsec. discount notes 0.728 5/19/17 25,000,000 24,990,750
Federal National Mortgage Association unsec. discount notes 0.751 5/17/17 28,571,000 28,561,600

Total U.S. government agency obligations (cost $208,465,709) $208,468,638

CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT (5.5%)(a)
Yield (%) Maturity date Principal amount Value

Bank of America, NA FRN 1.329 5/2/17 $15,000,000 $15,000,000
Bank of America, NA FRN 1.011 9/5/17 12,000,000 11,999,592
Bank of Montreal/Chicago, IL FRN (Canada) 1.386 7/6/17 3,500,000 3,502,398
Bank of Montreal/Chicago, IL FRN (Canada) 1.124 10/17/17 11,750,000 11,757,038
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce/New York, NY FRN 1.485 2/2/18 6,200,000 6,214,285
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce/New York, NY FRN 1.313 3/20/18 12,000,000 12,007,644
Citibank, NA 1.260 8/24/17 7,000,000 7,003,417
Citibank, NA 1.070 6/7/17 17,000,000 17,003,747
DnB Bank ASA/New York (Norway) 0.880 5/4/17 15,000,000 15,000,206
National Australia Bank, Ltd./NY FRN (Australia) 1.529 6/8/17 8,000,000 8,005,048
Royal Bank of Canada/New York, NY FRN (Canada) 1.555 10/13/17 5,000,000 5,009,395
Royal Bank of Canada/New York, NY FRN (Canada) 1.406 12/8/17 7,300,000 7,311,476
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB/New York, NY 1.020 5/26/17 2,760,000 2,760,745
Toronto-Dominion Bank/NY FRN (Canada) 1.435 11/1/17 8,000,000 8,011,336
Toronto-Dominion Bank/NY FRN (Canada) 1.313 3/20/18 12,000,000 12,006,348
Wells Fargo Bank, NA FRN 1.387 11/16/17 25,000,000 25,046,300
Westpac Banking Corp./NY (Australia) 1.150 7/14/17 8,800,000 8,804,005

Total certificates of deposit (cost $176,313,313) $176,442,980

TIME DEPOSITS (5.3%)(a)
Yield (%) Maturity date Principal amount Value

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, Ltd./Cayman Islands (Cayman Islands) 0.920 5/1/17 $30,500,000 $30,500,000
BNP Paribas/Cayman Islands (France) 0.820 5/1/17 30,500,000 30,500,000
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank/New York (France) 0.830 5/1/17 15,000,000 15,000,000
ING Bank NV (Netherlands) 0.940 5/2/17 31,000,000 31,000,000
National Australia Bank/Cayman Islands (Cayman Islands) 0.800 5/1/17 30,500,000 30,500,000
Svenska Handelsbanken/Cayman Islands (Sweden) 0.800 5/1/17 30,500,000 30,500,000

Total time deposits (cost $168,000,000) $168,000,000

U.S. TREASURY OBLIGATIONS (2.0%)(a)
Yield (%) Maturity date Principal amount Value

U.S. Treasury Bills 0.710 5/4/17 $35,000,000 $34,998,145
U.S. Treasury Bills 0.571 5/11/17 30,000,000 29,994,480

Total U.S. treasury obligations (cost $64,993,279) $64,992,625

TOTAL INVESTMENTS

Total investments (cost $3,187,771,493)(b) $3,187,950,297














Key to holding's abbreviations
FRN Floating Rate Notes: the rate shown is the current interest rate or yield at the close of the reporting period
Notes to the fund's portfolio
Unless noted otherwise, the notes to the fund's portfolio are for the close of the fund's reporting period, which ran from August 1, 2016 through April 30, 2017 (the reporting period). Within the following notes to the portfolio, references to "ASC 820" represent Accounting Standards Codification 820 Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, references to "Putnam Management" represent Putnam Investment Management, LLC, the fund's manager, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Putnam Investments, LLC and references to "OTC", if any, represent over-the-counter.
(a) Percentages indicated are based on net assets of $3,186,436,840.
(b) The aggregate identified cost on a tax basis is $3,187,771,493, resulting in gross unrealized appreciation and depreciation of $271,627 and $92,823, respectively, or net unrealized appreciation of $178,804.
(IR) Repurchase agreements with a maturity of more than seven days are considered to be illiquid investments.
Debt obligations are considered secured unless otherwise indicated.
144A after the name of an issuer represents securities exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers.
The dates shown on debt obligations are the original maturity dates.

DIVERSIFICATION BY COUNTRY
Distribution of investments by country of risk at the close of the reporting period, excluding collateral received, if any (as a percentage of Portfolio Value):
United States 60.3%
France 15.6
Canada 6.8
Australia 2.7
Cayman Islands 2.7
Sweden 2.5
Switzerland 2.1
Japan 1.8
United Kingdom 1.8
Netherlands 1.5
Norway 0.9
Luxembourg 0.5
Germany 0.4
Denmark 0.4

Total 100.0%

Security valuation:
Portfolio securities and other investments are valued using policies and procedures adopted by the Board of Trustees. The Trustees have formed a Pricing Committee to oversee the implementation of these procedures and have delegated responsibility for valuing the fund's assets in accordance with these procedures to Putnam Management. Putnam Management has established an internal Valuation Committee that is responsible for making fair value determinations, evaluating the effectiveness of the pricing policies of the fund and reporting to the Pricing Committee.
Market quotations are not considered to be readily available for certain debt obligations (including short-term investments with remaining maturities of 60 days or less) and other investments; such investments are valued on the basis of valuations furnished by an independent pricing service approved by the Trustees or dealers selected by Putnam Management. Such services or dealers determine valuations for normal institutional-size trading units of such securities using methods based on market transactions for comparable securities and various relationships, generally recognized by institutional traders, between securities (which consider such factors as security prices, yields, maturities and ratings). These securities will generally be categorized as Level 2. Securities quoted in foreign currencies, if any, are translated into U.S. dollars at the current exchange rate.
To the extent a pricing service or dealer is unable to value a security or provides a valuation that Putnam Management does not believe accurately reflects the security's fair value, the security will be valued at fair value by Putnam Management in accordance with policies and procedures approved by the Trustees. Certain investments, including certain restricted and illiquid securities and derivatives, are also valued at fair value following procedures approved by the Trustees. These valuations consider such factors as significant market or specific security events such as interest rate or credit quality changes, various relationships with other securities, discount rates, U.S. Treasury, U.S. swap and credit yields, index levels, convexity exposures, recovery rates, sales and other multiples and resale restrictions. These securities are classified as Level 2 or as Level 3 depending on the priority of the significant inputs.
To assess the continuing appropriateness of fair valuations, the Valuation Committee reviews and affirms the reasonableness of such valuations on a regular basis after considering all relevant information that is reasonably available. Such valuations and procedures are reviewed periodically by the Trustees. The fair value of securities is generally determined as the amount that the fund could reasonably expect to realize from an orderly disposition of such securities over a reasonable period of time. By its nature, a fair value price is a good faith estimate of the value of a security in a current sale and does not reflect an actual market price, which may be different by a material amount.
Repurchase agreements: The fund, or any joint trading account, through its custodian, receives delivery of the underlying securities, the fair value of which at the time of purchase is required to be in an amount at least equal to the resale price, including accrued interest. Collateral for certain tri-party repurchase agreements is held at the counterparty's custodian in a segregated account for the benefit of the fund and the counterparty. Putnam Management is responsible for determining that the value of these underlying securities is at all times at least equal to the resale price, including accrued interest. In the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.













ASC 820 establishes a three-level hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. The valuation hierarchy is based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of the fund's investments. The three levels are defined as follows:
Level 1: Valuations based on quoted prices for identical securities in active markets.
Level 2: Valuations based on quoted prices in markets that are not active or for which all significant inputs are observable, either directly or indirectly.
Level 3: Valuations based on inputs that are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.
The following is a summary of the inputs used to value the fund's net assets as of the close of the reporting period:

Valuation inputs

Investments in securities: Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
Asset-backed commercial paper $— $316,410,374 $—
Certificates of deposit 176,442,980
Commercial paper 798,357,680
Repurchase agreements 1,455,278,000
Time deposits 168,000,000
U.S. government agency obligations 208,468,638
U.S. treasury obligations 64,992,625



Totals by level $— $3,187,950,297 $—


During the reporting period, transfers within the fair value hierarchy, if any, did not represent, in the aggregate, more than 1% of the fund's net assets measured as of the end of the period. Transfers are accounted for using the end of period pricing valuation method.
   
  The following table summarizes any derivatives, repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, at the end of the reporting period, that are subject to an enforceable master netting agreement or similar agreement. For securities lending transactions, if applicable, see note "(AFF)" above, and for borrowing transactions associated with securities sold short, if applicable, see the "Short sales of securities" note above.
   
      Bank of Nova Scotia Barclays Capital, Inc. BNP Paribas Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. Goldman, Sachs & Co. HSBC Bank USA, National Association J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. RBC Capital Markets, LLC   Total
                           
  Assets:                        
  Repurchase agreements   $129,000,000 $204,400,000 $154,495,000 $224,332,000 $160,528,000 $126,000,000 $100,000,000 $226,000,000 $130,523,000   $1,455,278,000
                           
  Total Assets   $129,000,000 $204,400,000 $154,495,000 $224,332,000 $160,528,000 $126,000,000 $100,000,000 $226,000,000 $130,523,000   $1,455,278,000
                           
  Liabilities:                        
                           
  Total Liabilities   $— $— $— $— $— $— $— $— $—   $—
                           
  Total Financial and Derivative Net Assets   $129,000,000 $204,400,000 $154,495,000 $224,332,000 $160,528,000 $126,000,000 $100,000,000 $226,000,000 $130,523,000   $1,455,278,000
  Total collateral received (pledged)##†   $129,000,000 $204,400,000 $154,495,000 $224,332,000 $160,528,000 $126,000,000 $100,000,000 $226,000,000 $130,523,000    
  Net amount   $— $— $— $— $— $— $— $— $—    
                           
 Additional collateral may be required from certain brokers based on individual agreements.
                           
## Any over-collateralization of total financial and derivative net assets is not shown. Collateral may include amounts related to unsettled agreements.

For additional information regarding the fund please see the fund's most recent annual or semiannual shareholder report filed on the Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site, www.sec.gov, or visit Putnam's Individual Investor Web site at www.putnaminvestments.com



Item 2. Controls and Procedures:
(a) The registrant's principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded, based on their evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report, that the design and operation of such procedures are generally effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by the registrant in this report is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission's rules and forms.

(b) Changes in internal control over financial reporting: Not applicable
Item 3. Exhibits:
Separate certifications for the principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, are filed herewith.

SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Putnam Funds Trust
By (Signature and Title):
/s/ Janet C. Smith
Janet C. Smith
Principal Accounting Officer
Date: June 27, 2017

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

By (Signature and Title):
/s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz
Jonathan S. Horwitz
Principal Executive Officer
Date: June 27, 2017

By (Signature and Title):
/s/ Janet C. Smith
Janet C. Smith
Principal Financial Officer
Date: June 27, 2017