MT 566 Field Specifications

28. 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	FDDT	N		A, B, C, D	First Dealing Date
12 14	O	FXDT	N		A, B, C, D	FX Rate Fixing Date
13 15	O	MKDT	N		A, B, C, D	Market Deadline Date
14 16	O	PAYD	N		A, B, C, D	Payment Date
15 17	O	PODT	N		A, B, C, D	Protect Date
18	O	PPDT	N		A, B, C, D	Pari Passu Date
16 19	O	PROD	N		A, B, C, D	Proration Date
17 20	O	REDM	N		A, B, C, D	Redemption Date
18 21	O	REGI	N		A, B, C, D	Deadline to Register
19 22	O	RESU	N		A, B, C, D	Results Publication Date
20 23	O	SPLT	N		A, B, C, D	Deadline to Split
21 24	O	SUBS	N		A, B, C, D	Subscription Date
22 25	O	QUOT	N		A, B, C, D	Quotation Setting Date
23 26	O	MEET	N		A, B, C, D	Meeting Date
24 27	O	RDDT	N		A, B, C, D	Response Deadline Date
25 28	O	RDTE	N		A, B, C, D	Record Date
26 29	O	TAXB	N		A, B, C, D	Deadline for Tax Breakdown Instructions
30	O	TRDT	N		A, B, C, D	Trading Resumed Date
27 31	O	TSDT	N		A, B, C, D	Trading Suspended Date
28 32	O	LOTO	N		A, B, C, D	Lottery Date
29 33	O	CVPR	N		A, B, C, D	Cover Protect Expiration Date
30 34	O	CEXD	N		A, B, C, D	Consent Expiration Date
31 35	O	CORD	N		A, B, C, D	Consent Record Date
32 36	O	UNCO	N		A, B, C, D	Unconditional Date
33 37	O	WUCO	N		A, B, C, D	Wholly Unconditional Date
34 38	O	EQUL	N		A, B, C, D	Equalization Date

DEFINITION

This qualified generic field specifies:

ANOU	Announcement Date	Date on which issuer announced that a corporate action 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 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 on 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 on which cash disbursement will be made.
EFFD	Effective Date	Date on 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 on which the account owner requests the instruction to be executed.
FDDT	First Dealing Date	Date on which new securities begin trading.
FXDT	FX Rate Fixing Date	Date on 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 on which 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 on 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 on which issuer will determine proration amount/quantity of an offer.
QUOT	Quotation Setting Date	Date on which the price of security is determined.
RDDT	Response Deadline Date	Date on 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 on which 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 on 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 on 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 on which suspended security resumes trading.
TSDT	Trading Suspended Date	Date on which trading of a security is suspended as the result of a corporate actions 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.

The date is calculated by adding/subtracting 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.
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.

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.