MT 361 Field Specifications

13. Field 14A: Business Day Convention

FORMAT

Option A

9a

(Convention)

PRESENCE

Optional in mandatory sequence A

DEFINITION

This field specifies the convention for adjusting the Termination Date in field 30P if it would otherwise fall on a day that is not a valid business day.

For an ISDA Master (Type in field 77H is ISDA), this field specifies the Business Day Convention as per ISDA definitions.

CODES

Convention must be one of the following codes (Error code(s): T36):

FOLLOWING	The non-business date will be adjusted to the first following day that is a business day.
FRN	FRN convention.
MODIFIEDF	The non-business date will be adjusted to the first following day that is a business day unless that day falls in the next calendar month, in which case that date will be the first preceding day that is a business day.
OTHER	The business day convention is specified in field 77D.
PRECEDING	The non-business date will be adjusted to the first preceding day that is a business day.

USAGE RULES

USAGE RULES: To indicate that no adjustment applies to the termination date, the value 'OTHER' must be used in this field and field 77D must then contain NONE in the first line.This implies that the last payment date of each side rolls the same way as stated in the legs.