MT 564 Field Specifications

41. Field 98a: Date/Time

FORMAT

Option A :4!c//8!n (Qualifier) (Date)
Option B :4!c/[8c]/4!c (Qualifier) (Data Source Scheme) (Date Code)
Option C :4!c//8!n6!n (Qualifier) (Date) (Time)
Option D :4!c//4!c/[N]3!n/4!c (Qualifier) (Reference Date) (Sign) (Number of Days) (Day Type)

PRESENCE

Optional

QUALIFIER

(Error code(s): T89)

Order M/O Qualifier R/N CR Options Qualifier Description
1 O ANOU N   A, B, C, D Announcement Date
2 O AVAL N   A, B, C, D Available Date
3 O BLOK N   A, B, C, D Blocked Date
3 4 O CERT N   A, B, C, D Certification Deadline Date
5 O CONV N   A, B, C, D Conversion Date
4 6 O COUC N   A, B, C, D Coupon Clipping Date
5 7 O XDTE N   A, B, C, D Ex-Dividend or Distribution Date
6 8 O DIVR N   A, B, C, D Dividend Ranking Date
7 9 O EARL N   A, B, C, D Earliest Payment Date
8 10 O EFFD N   A, B, C, D Effective Date
9 11 O EXPI N   A, B, C, D Expiry Date
10 12 O EXRQ N   A, B, C, D Execution Requested Date
11 13 O FDAT N   A, B, C, D Further Detailed Announcement Date
12 14 O FDDT N   A, B, C, D First Dealing Date
13 15 O FXDT N   A, B, C, D FX Rate Fixing Date
14 16 O MKDT N   A, B, C, D Market Deadline Date
15 17 O PAYD N   A, B, C, D Payment Date
16 18 O PODT N   A, B, C, D Protect Date
19 O PPDT N   A, B, C, D Pari Passu Date
17 20 O PROD N   A, B, C, D Proration Date
18 21 O REDM N   A, B, C, D Redemption Date
19 22 O REGI N   A, B, C, D Deadline to Register
20 23 O RESU N   A, B, C, D Results Publication Date
21 24 O SPLT N   A, B, C, D Deadline to Split
22 25 O SUBS N   A, B, C, D Subscription Date
23 26 O QUOT N   A, B, C, D Quotation Setting Date
24 27 O MEET N   A, B, C, D Meeting Date
25 28 O RDDT N   A, B, C, D Response Deadline Date
26 29 O RDTE N   A, B, C, D Record Date
27 30 O TAXB N   A, B, C, D Deadline for Tax Breakdown Instructions
31 O TRDT N   A, B, C, D Trading Resumed Date
28 32 O TSDT N   A, B, C, D Trading Suspended Date
29 33 O LOTO N   A, B, C, D Lottery Date
30 34 O CVPR N   A, B, C, D Cover Protect Expiration Date
31 35 O CEXD N   A, B, C, D Consent Expiration Date
32 36 O CORD N   A, B, C, D Consent Record Date
33 37 O UNCO N   A, B, C, D Unconditional Date
34 38 O WUCO N   A, B, C, D Wholly Unconditional Date
35 39 O MET2 N   A, B, C, D Second Meeting Date
36 40 O MET3 N   A, B, C, D Third Meeting Date
37 41 O EQUL UBLK N   A, B, C, D Equalization Unblocking Date
38 42 O ECDT EQUL N   A, B, C, D Early Closing Equalization Date

DEFINITION

This qualified generic field specifies:

ANOU Announcement Date Date upon which the issuer announced that a CA event will occur.
AVAL Available Date Date upon which securities become available for sale, eg, dispatch date.
BLOK Blocked Date Date after which securities will be blocked or otherwise not available for sale.
CERT Certification Deadline Date Deadline by which the beneficial ownership of securities must be declared.
CEXD Consent Expiration Date Last date/time at which day a holder can consent to the changes sought by the corporation.
CORD Consent Record Date Date/time used by the offeror to determine the beneficiary eligible to participate in a consent based on the registered owner of the securities, eg, beneficial owner of consent record. The consent record date qualifier is used to indicate that a record date only applies to a certain part of the offer, not the entire offer.
CONV Conversion Date According to the terms of the issue, deadline by which a convertible security must be converted to underlying securities.
CORD Consent Record Date Date upon which the offeror of securities will use to determine the beneficiary eligible to participate in a consent based on the registered owner of securities, eg, beneficial owner of consent record.
COUC Coupon Clipping Date Date upon which coupons are to be submitted for payment of interest.
CVPR Cover Protect Expiration Date Last day a holder can deliver the securities that it had previously protected.
DIVR Dividend Ranking Date Date upon which security will begin to accrue the value, or be entitled to, a dividend.
EARL Earliest Payment Date Date/time at which a payment can be made, eg, if payment date is a non-business day or to indicate the first payment date of an offer.
ECDT Early Closing Date First possible early closing date of an offer if different from the expiry date.
EARL Earliest Payment Date Earliest expected date upon which cash disbursement will be made.
EFFD Effective Date Date upon which CA event (including split), or a process of the event, is completed..
EQUL Equalization Date Normally one day after the previous distribution's ex date, the period on and between the equalization date and the current distribution's ex date, represents the time when all or part of any holding bought in a unit trust is subject to being treated as capital rather than income.
EXPI Expiry Date Date/time on which an order expires or on which a privilege or offer terminates.
EXPI Expiry Date Termination date of a privilege which may be exercised, according to the terms of a securities issue.
EXRQ Execution Requested Date Date upon which account owner requests the instruction to be executed.
FDAT Further Detailed Announcement Date Date upon which additional information on the event will be announced, eg, exchange ratio announcement date.
FDDT First Dealing Date Date upon which new securities begin trading.
FXDT FX Rate Fixing Date Date upon which FX rate will be determined.
LOTO Lottery Date Date the lottery is run and applied to holder's positions. This is also applicable to partial calls.
This date can determine or not the entitlement and in the later case that this is simply the date on which the drawing is done.
MEET Meeting Date Date scheduled for the company's general meeting.
MKDT Market Deadline Date Date upon which the issuer has set as the deadline to respond, with instructions, to an outstanding offer or privilege.
PAYD Payment Date Date/time at which the distribution is due to take place (cash and/or securities).
PAYD Payment Date Date upon which securities/cash will be paid.
PODT Protect Date The last day a holder can elect securities pursuant to a notice of guaranteed delivery or other required documentation.
PPDT Pari Passu Date Date upon which security will assimilate, become fungible, or have the same rights to dividends as the parent issue.
PROD Proration Date Date upon which the issuer will determine proration amount/quantity of an offer.
QUOT Quotation Setting Date Date upon which the price of security is determined.
RDDT Response Deadline Date Date upon which account servicer has set as the deadline to respond, with instructions, to an outstanding offer or privilege. This time is dependent of the reference time zone of the account servicer as specified in the SLA.
RDTE Record Date Date/time at which positions are struck at the end of the day to note which parties will receive the relevant amount of entitlement, due to be distributed on payment date.
RDTE Record Date Date upon which the issuer of securities will use to determine the beneficiary eligible for a CA event based on the registered owner of securities, eg, beneficial owner of record.
REDM Redemption Date Date upon which securities are to be redeemed in return for the payment of principal.
REGI Deadline to Register Date upon which instructions to registration or registration details will be accepted.
RESU Results Publication Date Date upon which results are published, eg, results of offers.
SPLT Deadline to Split Deadline by which instructions must be received to split securities, eg, of physical certificates.
SPLT Deadline to Split Date upon which instructions to split will be accepted.
SUBS Subscription Date Date upon which instructions for a rights subscription will be accepted.
TAXB Deadline for Tax Breakdown Instructions Date until which the custodian will accept tax breakdown instructions.
TRDT Trading Resumed Date Date upon which suspended security resumes trading.
TSDT Trading Suspended Date Date upon which trading of a security is suspended as the result of a CA event.
UNCO Unconditional Date Date upon which the terms of the take-over become unconditional.
WUCO Wholly Unconditional Date Date upon which all conditions pertaining to the take-over have been met.
XDTE Ex-Dividend or Distribution Date Date/time as from which trading (including exchange and OTC trading) occurs on the underlying security without the benefit.
XDTE Ex-Dividend or Distribution Date Securities traded on or after this date are not eligible for CA event, eg, publication date.
MET2 Meeting Date Date scheduled for the company's general meeting, 2nd session if applicable (e.g. Italy).
MET3 Meeting Date Date scheduled for the company's general meeting, 3rd session if applicable.
UBLK Unblocking Date Date after which securities will be unblocked or otherwise available for sale.

The date is calculated by adding/substracting the Number of Days to the Reference Date.

CODES

In option B, when Data Source Scheme is not present, Date Code must contain one of the following codes (Error code(s): K98):

OPEN Open-dated Date has not been established.
UKWN Unknown Date Date is unknown by the Sender.
ONGO Ongoing basis Date is determined by "on going basis" process, e.g. "au fil de l'eau".

CODES

Reference Date must contain one of the following codes (Error code(s): K98):

ANOU Announcement Date.
AVAL Available Date.
BLOK Blocked Date.
CERT Certification Deadline Date.
CEXD Consent Expiration Date.
CONV Conversion Date, Unspecified.
CORD Consent Record Date.
COUC Coupon Clipping Date.
CVPR Cover Protect Expiration Date.
DIVR Dividend Ranking Date.
EARL Earliest Payment Date.
EFFD Effective Date.
EQUL Equalization Date.
EXPI Expiry Date.
EXRQ Execution Requested Date.
FBDM First Business Day of Month.
FCDM First Calendar Day of Month.
FDAT Further Detailed Announcement Date.
FDDT First Dealing Date.
FXDT Currency Exchange Date.
INST Instructed Date.
LBDM Last Business Day of Month.
LCDM Last Calendar Day of Month.
LOTO Lottery Date.
MEET Meeting Date.
MKDT Market Deadline Date.
PAYD Payment Date.
PODT Protect Date.
PPDT Pari-Passu Date.
PROD Proration Date.
QUOT Quotation Setting Date.
RDDT Response Deadline Date.
RDTE Record Date.
REDM Redemption Date.
REGI Registration Deadline.
RESU Results Publication Date.
SPLT Deadline to Split.
SUBS Subscription Date.
TAXB Deadline for Tax Breakdown Instructions
TRDT Trading Resumed Date.
TSDT Trading Suspended Date.
VALU Value Date.
UNCO Unconditional Date.
WUCO Wholly Unconditional Date.
XDTE Ex-Dividend or Distribution Date.
MET2 Date scheduled for the company's general meeting, 2nd session if applicable (e.g. Italy).
MET3 Date scheduled for the company's general meeting, 3rd session if applicable.
UBLK Date after which securities will be unblocked or otherwise available for sale.

CODES

Day Type must contain one of the following codes (Error code(s): K98):

ACTU Elapsed Calendar Days.
BUSE Elapsed Business Days.

NETWORK VALIDATED RULES

Date must be a valid date expressed as YYYYMMDD (Error code(s): T50).

Time must be a valid time expressed as HHMMSS (Error code(s): T38).

When Sign is present, Number of Days must not be zero (Error code(s): T14).

USAGE RULES

Sign must be present when Number of Days is negative.

The consent record date (:98a::CORD) is used to indicate that a record date only applies to a certain part of the offer, not the entire offer.