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International Securities Services Association ISSACorporate Actions Working Group9. Glossary of Key Terms Used in this ReportThe definitions in this glossary are for the purpose of understanding the corporate actionsstandards in the context of this paper. They are not meant to be definitions in a legally bindingsense. Where available, the definitions agreed by the member associations of the CorporateActions Joint Working Group are adopted.Book EntryBuyer ProtectionCentralCounterparty (CCP)Class ActionCorporate ActionCorporate ActionAgentCSDDematerializationElective CorporateActionEnd InvestorFractionsGiovannini BarriersAccounting of securities and other financial assets in dematerializedor immobilized form.Process whereby a buyer who has yet to receive the underlyingsecurities of an elective corporate action, instructs the seller inorder to receive the outturn of his choice.An entity that interposes itself between the two parties to a trade,becoming the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer.Lawsuit from (ex)shareholders against the issuing company becausethey claim that certain of their rights have been violated.Action initiated upon a security by the issuer or an offeror.Agent appointed by the issuer to act on its behalf in relation tocorporate actions.Central Securities Depository: An entity that holds andadministrates securities and enables securities transactions to beprocessed by book entry. Securities can be held in a physical (butimmobilized) or dematerialized form (i.e. so that they exist only aselectronic records). In addition to the safekeeping andadministration of securities, a CSD may incorporate clearing andsettlement functions.The maintenance of records of ownership of securities in a databaserather than by physical paper certificates.Distribution with Options, Mandatory Reorganisation with Options orVoluntary ReorganisationPhysical or legal person who holds the security for its own account.The number of underlying securities remaining after the calculationof the entitlement to the proceeds of a corporate action.orThe decimal part of the balance of outturn securities resulting fromthe calculation of the proceeds of a corporate action.The Giovannini Group is a group of financial market experts whoadvise the European Commission on financial market issues. In2001, the group identified 15 specific barriers that prevent efficientEU cross-border clearing and settlement. They describe technical,legal and fiscal obstacles, which make it difficult for serviceproviders to extend their reach beyond their home country.May 2010 30
International Securities Services Association ISSACorporate Actions Working GroupICSDImmobilizationInterim SecurityIntermediaryIssuerIssuer CSD vsInvestor CSDInternational Central Securities Depository:Central securities depository that settles trades in internationalsecurities and in various domestic securities usually through director indirect (i.e. through local agents) links to local CSDs.The maintenance in a central depository of paper securities toenable book entry transfers between the depository participants.Short term transferable operational instrument, issued forprocessing purposes only, which is not representative of the issuer'scapital.Financial institution that provides and maintains securities accounts.The issuer of an underlying security including the agent mandatedby the issuer for corporate actions purposes.Issuer CSD: CSD with whom the issuer has deposited and maintainsits primary securities issuance by book-entry.Investor CSD: CSD that holds securities with another CSD or withan intermediary.Issuer CSD and Investor CSD can be one and the same entity, butneed not be. The term Issuer CSD puts the CSD's issuer service intothe focus, whereas the term Investor CSD focuses on the CSD'sinvestor services.Issuing and PayingAgentISINISOKey DatesAgent appointed by the issuer to issue securities to the market,receive corresponding payments, and act as paying agent on behalfof the issuer.International Securities Identification Number, as agreed in ISOStandard 6166.International Organization for StandardizationEx-, Record- and Payment dateEx-date: Date from which the underlying security is traded withoutthe benefit / right attached to it.Record-date: Date on which settled positions are struck in thebooks of the issuer CSD at close of business to determine theentitlement to the proceeds of a corporate action.Payment date: Date on which the payment is due.Start of Election Period: Start of the election period determinedby the issuer (resp. offeror) is the first date and time after theannouncement of the issuer (resp. offeror) by which the investorcan instruct (directly or indirectly via intermediary) about hiselection on the assets on distributions with options, mandatoryreorganizations with options and voluntary reorganizations.Last Trading Date: Last date to trade the underlying security inMay 2010 31
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