This message is sent by an account servicer (account servicing institution) to an account owner or its designated agent. The account servicer may be a local agent (sub-custodian) acting on behalf of their global custodian customer, or a custodian acting on behalf of an investment management institution or a broker/dealer.
It is used to provide, as at a specified time, details of pending settlement allegements, for all or selected securities in a specified safekeeping account.
When bilaterally agreed, this message may also be sent by an account servicer to another account servicer. The account servicers may be local agents or global custodians acting on behalf of an investment management institution, a broker/dealer or a retail client.
Sent with subfunction :23G::NEWM/PORT, it is used for the exchange of settlement details information during a retail or institutional client portfolio transfer. By exchange of settlement details, it is understood the providing, by the delivering account servicer to the receiving account servicer, of the settlement details (trade date, settlement date, delivering parties, and place of settlement) of the individual transfers that will take place during a full or partial portfolio transfer.
This message may also be used to respond to a request for statement/status advice (that is, the MT 549) and to report that there are pending settlement allegements.
