MT 564 Field Specifications

81. 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

Mandatory in an optional sequence

QUALIFIER

(Error code(s): T89)

Order	M/O	Qualifier	R/N	CR	Options	Qualifier Description
1	M	PAYD	N		A, B, C, D	Payment Date
2	O	ANOU	N		A, B, C, D	Announcement Date
3	O	AVAL	N		A, B, C, D	Available Date
4	O	BLOK	N		A, B, C, D	Blocked Date
4 5	O	CERT	N		A, B, C, D	Certification Deadline Date
6	O	CONV	N		A, B, C, D	Conversion Date
5 7	O	COUC	N		A, B, C, D	Coupon Clipping Date
6 8	O	XDTE	N		A, B, C, D	Ex-Dividend or Distribution Date
7 9	O	DIVR	N		A, B, C, D	Dividend Ranking Date
8 10	O	EARL	N		A, B, C, D	Earliest Payment Date
9 11	O	EFFD	N		A, B, C, D	Effective Date
10 12	O	EXPI	N		A, B, C, D	Expiry Date
11 13	O	EXRQ	N		A, B, C, D	Execution Requested Date
12 14	O	FDAT	N		A, B, C, D	Further Detailed Announcement Date
13 15	O	FDDT	N		A, B, C, D	First Dealing Date
14 16	O	FXDT	N		A, B, C, D	FX Rate Fixing Date
15 17	O	MKDT	N		A, B, C, D	Market Deadline Date
16 18	O	PODT	N		A, B, C, D	Protect Date
17 19	O	PPDT	N		A, B, C, D	Pari Passu Date
18 20	O	PROD	N		A, B, C, D	Proration Date
19 21	O	REDM	N		A, B, C, D	Redemption Date
20 22	O	REGI	N		A, B, C, D	Deadline to Register
21 23	O	RESU	N		A, B, C, D	Results Publication Date
22 24	O	SPLT	N		A, B, C, D	Deadline to Split
23 25	O	SUBS	N		A, B, C, D	Subscription Date
24 26	O	QUOT	N		A, B, C, D	Quotation Setting Date
25 27	O	MEET	N		A, B, C, D	Meeting Date
26 28	O	RDTE	N		A, B, C, D	Record Date
27 29	O	TAXB	N		A, B, C, D	Deadline for Tax Breakdown Instructions
30	O	TRDT	N		A, B, C, D	Trading Resumed Date
28 31	O	TSDT	N		A, B, C, D	Trading Suspended Date
29 32	O	LOTO	N		A, B, C, D	Lottery Date
30 33	O	CVPR	N		A, B, C, D	Cover Protect Expiration Date
31 34	O	CEXD	N		A, B, C, D	Consent Expiration Date
32 35	O	EXCR	N		A, B, C, D	Expected Credit Date
36	O	XCPN	N		A, B, C, D	Ex-coupon Presentation Date
33 37	O	CORD	N		A, B, C, D	Consent Record Date
34 38	O	VALU	N		A, B, C, D	Value 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
41	O	UBLK	N		A, B, C, D	Unblocking Date
37 42	O	EQUL	N		A, B, C, D	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 on which securities become available for sale, eg, dispatch date.
BLOK	Blocked Date	Date after which securities will be blocked or 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 on 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.
EARL	Earliest Payment Date	Earliest expected date upon which cash disbursement will be made.
EFFD	Effective Date	Date upon which CA event, 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.
EXCR	Expected Credit Date	Expected credit date.
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 on 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 on which the price of security is determined.
RDTE	Record Date	Date/time at which positons 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 until which instructions to registration or registration details will be accepted.
RESU	Results Publication Date	Date until 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 until 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.
VALU	Value Date	Date/time at which assets become available to the account owner (in a credit entry), or cease to be available to the account owner (in a debit entry).
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..
VALU	Value Date	Date on which securities proceeds deposited are considered of good value in a safekeeping account.
XCPN	Ex-coupon Presentation Date	Date from which underlying (exercised) securities can be presented under an option or offer without the current coupon attached.
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.

CODES

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

UKWN	Unknown Date	Date is unknown by the Sender.
OPEN	Open-dated	Date has not been established.
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.
EXCR	Expected Credit Date.
EXRQ	Execution Requested Date.
EQUL	Equalization Date.
EXPI	Expiry 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.
REGI	Deadline to Register.
RESU	Results Publication Date.
SPLT	Deadline to Split.
REDM	Redemption Date.
SUBS	Subscription Date.
TAXB	Deadline for Tax Breakdown Instructions.
TRDT	Trading Resumed Date.
TSDT	Trading Suspended Date.
VALU	Value Date.
XCPN	Ex-coupon Presentation 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.