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MT 559 Field Specifications

11. Field 35U: Dividend/Interest Rate

FORMAT

Option U 3!a15d[1!a] (Currency)(Price)(Period)

PRESENCE

Optional

DEFINITION

This field specifies the currency and amount of income per share/unit and, optionally, the period for which the income was paid/received.

CODES

Period must be one of the following codes (Error code(s): T42):

A Annually
F Final Payment
M Monthly
Q Quarterly
S Semi-Annually
X Other Cases

NETWORK VALIDATED RULES

Currency must be a valid ISO 4217 currency code or the code PCT (Error code(s): T52).

The integer part of Price must contain at least one digit. A decimal comma is mandatory and is included in the maximum length (Error code(s): T40,T43).

USAGE RULES

This field may alternatively contain, in the case of bonds, the code PCT, followed by the annual interest rate, in decimal form.

If a currency code is present, the number of digits following the decimal comma will not be validated against the maximum allowed for the currency specified.