Corporate Action Processing Innovations
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Corporate Action Processing Innovations • Standardize Corporate Actions Liability Notices • Improving Complex Security Income • Agency Lending Disclosure • Global Corporate Actions Validation Service
Corporate Action Processing Innovations Standardize Corporate Actions Liability Notices
SMART/Track: Corporate Actions Liability • What is it? • SMART/Track for Corporate Actions Liability Notification Service is a web-based application for the communication and tracking of voluntary corporate action liability notices • Allows participants to create, send, process and track liability notices and links the various parties involved with corporate action processing
Corporate Actions Liability Notification Service • Announcement Collection • Collect corporate action announcement information • Consolidate data and prepare for comparison • Announcement Validation • Normalize, reconcile and enrich data • Validate for accuracy and completeness • Produce scrubbed announcement record DTCC Corporate Action Initiatives • Identification and Notification • Determine investors impacted by event and calculate entitlements • Notify investors of announcement information 1. 2. Corporate Actions Liability Notification Service • Election Processing (for Voluntaries) • Reconcile elections • Communicate elections from investors thru various financial intermediaries • Submit instructions before deadline 3. • Event Settlement • Deliver securities, if necessary • Receive securities and/or money payment 4. • Reconciliation • Allocate entitlements to investors • Notify investors of final transactions • Close-out event 5. 6.
SMART/Track: Corporate Actions Liability Bank B Broker B Bank A Broker C Broker A Bank C SMART/Track Tracking Database RIPS
SMART/Track: Corporate Actions Liability Functions: • Create and transmit liability for a voluntary corporate action to a single or multiple counterparties • Accept/reject a liability notice • Reduce liability quantity • Cancel a notice • Track status of notices sent/received
SMART/Track: Corporate Actions Liability Features: • Web-based • Automated tracking including numbers of notices sent/received and status of each • Link to DTC’s RIPs system for corporate offer information • Automated Alerts for date changes in RIPs that affect a liability notice • E-mail notices at start of day and intra-day for notices requiring action that day • Automatic archiving and retrieval of archived notices with 7-year data retention
SMART/Track: Corporate Actions Liability Benefits • Eliminates the manual paper-based fax and phone notification process • Standardizes market practice for communicating liability notifications • Provides a single point of entry for all participants • Manages message delivery risk through tracking
SMART/Track: Corporate Actions Liability Pilot Program • Pilot launched in November 2004 with 19 participants • 64 pilot participants representing 123 users • 822 notices transmitted
SMART/Track: Corporate Action Liability What’s next? • Expect that use of the automated Service will be the standard way of sending liability notices • Working with the NYSE on changing NYSE Rule 180 to mandate use of SMART/Track for sending voluntary corporate actions liability notices
Corporate Action Processing Innovations Improving Complex Security Income
Improving Complex Security Income • Elimination of contra-CUSIPs for Variable Rate Demand Obligation (VRDO) partial calls • Implement a unified end-to-end platform for the asset servicing life cycle • Establish best practices and performance metrics for the handling of complex securities
Improving Complex Security Income Elimination of Contra-CUSIPs VRDO partial calls • Effective with the November 1, 2005 redemption date • Called positions will be segregated into the Called Account under the regularly assigned CUSIP number • Lotteries for late call notices or revisions to previously paid out items received after November 1, 2005, will also be processed without contra-CUSIPs
Improving Complex Security Income Implement a unified end-to-end platform from issuance through the entire asset servicing life cycle • Underwriting • Corporate Actions • Masterfiles
Improving Complex Security Income Establish best practices and performance metrics for the handling of complex securities • Post-payable adjustments for complex securities decreased by 6% from Q1 to Q2 • Work continues with the major paying agents to identify root causes of errors and implementing process improvements where feasible • DTCC is also planning on broadening its working relationship with other industry associations and participants to collaboratively progress the streamlining of Asset Backed Securities processing
Corporate Action Processing Innovations SMART/Track for Agency Lending Disclosure
SMART/Track: Agency Lending Disclosure What is Agency Lending Disclosure? • Industry initiative to provide greater transparency in securities lending transactions • Agent lenders will be required to disclose principal lender information on open loans to borrowers on a daily basis for credit monitoring and capital requirement purposes in 2006
SMART/Track: Agency Lending Disclosure What is DTCC’s Role? Approached by the Task Force for Agency Lending Disclosure in 2003 to develop a communications facility for the transmission of periodic and daily loan files between agent lenders and borrowers
SMART/Track: Agency Lending Disclosure SMART/Track has two functions: • Communications facility for transmitting data files • Web application for viewing file transmission status and searching/requesting unique identifiers
SMART/Track: Agency Lending Disclosure Transmission of loan files • Agent lender and borrowers can send loan files directly to SMART/Track or through a vendor (SunGard or EquiLend) using: • FTP • NDM – CONNECT:Direct, or • FTP over the internet
Borrower Borrower Borrower Agent Lender Loanet Equilend SMART/Track: Agency Lending Disclosure Agent Lender Agent Lender SMART/Track For Agency Lending Disclosure
SMART/Track: Agency Lending Disclosure Web Application allows users to: • Search for or create unique identifiers for those principal lenders that do not have U.S. tax identification numbers (required in the data files) • View the transmission status of files sent directly through SMART/Track to a counterparty
SMART/Track: Agency Lending Disclosure To sign up: • Contact your DTCC Account Executive, or • Call DTCC Relationship Services at 800-422-0582
SMART/Track: Agency Lending Disclosure For more information about the Agency Lending Disclosure initiative, visit the Task Force’s website at: www.agencylending.capco.com
Corporate Action Processing Innovations Global Corporate Action Validation Service
Global Corporate Action Validation Service The Global Corporate Action (GCA) Validation Service provides a centralized source of scrubbed information about corporate actions for nearly 100 event types for instruments traded in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas
Global Corporate Action Validation Service • Announcement Collection • Collect corporate action announcement information • Consolidate data and prepare for comparison • Announcement Validation • Normalize, reconcile and enrich data • Validate for accuracy and completeness • Produce scrubbed announcement record DTCC Corporate Action Initiatives • Identification and Notification • Determine investors impacted by event and calculate entitlements • Notify investors of announcement information 1. 2. • Election Processing (for Voluntaries) • Reconcile elections • Communicate elections from investors thru various financial intermediaries • Submit instructions before deadline GCA VS 3. • Event Settlement • Deliver securities, if necessary • Receive securities and/or money payment 4. • Reconciliation • Allocate entitlements to investors • Notify investors of final transactions • Close-out event 5. 6.
Global Corporate Action Validation Service The GCA Validation Service delivers standardized, comprehensive and timely information to financial institutions of all types and sizes. Broker/Dealers Banks Investment Managers Hedge Funds Any firm that tracks corporate action information and its impact on securities positions
Global Corporate Action Validation Service How does it Work? • The service validates data through an intricate process of mapping, normalizing and consolidating announcement information • Skilled professionals enrich the data through follow-up research relying on a wide array of sources • Customers submit a “securities of interest” file and have the GCA VS monitor and report on these specific securities throughout the day
Global Corporate Action Validation Service How does it Work? (continued) • Customers receive a common composite record for each announcement • A file of these records is available six times a day and includes event data for each composite record created or updated since the last publication • Real-time, around-the-clock access to information through a secure, Web-based inquiry tool provides the most current version of the composite record • A custodian verification feature compares and validates customer’s corporate action announcement information from other sources (e.g. Custodians, Prime Brokers)
Global Corporate Action Validation Service Benefits • Reduce operational losses • Optimizes front-office trading • Simplifies operations globally • Streamlines data sources • Provides a smooth access to information
Global Corporate Action Validation Service • London Service Center • Service Delivery • Help Desk Support • Hours of Operation • Monday through Friday • 8am - 6pm (local time) • Shanghai Service Center • Service Delivery • Help Desk Support • Hours of Operation • Monday through Friday • 8am - 6pm (local time) • New York Service Center • Service Delivery • Help Desk Support • IT Infrastructure • Vendor Management • Client and Service Management • Governance • Hours of Operation • Monday through Friday • 8am - 6pm (local time) • Language Coverage • English • Spanish • Portuguese • German • Italian • French • Chinese • Japanese • Arabic • Turkish • Bengali • Help Desk Support Phone Logistics • Domestic: 866-DTCC-GCA • International: +1 212-855-2366 • Online Inquiry URL Logistics • https://gca.dtcc.com • GCA Web Page • www.dtcc.com/GCA • E-mail Support Logistics • gcabusiness.support@dtcc.com • gcatechnical.support@dtcc.com
Global Corporate Action Validation Service Find out how we can help you drive efficiency for corporate actions Contact us at: 1-866-382-2422 or gcainfo@dtcc.com