We support our clients in the processing of income payments and corporate actions.
Situation:
You act as a securities account holder of OeKB CSD and an income payment or a corporate action is due soon.
Our scope of services:
We take care of all administrative activities involved in the securities life-cycle. And we do this for all securities we keep in our function as Issuer CSD or which are kept with a custodian where we act as Investor CSD.
The costs:
As a CSD we keep our costs transparent. Therefore, all costs are listed in our price list:
Your way to us:
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Read more about the securities account holder duties we can perform on your behalf:
We perform all income-related activities on behalf of you as the securities account holder. Among other things, our service includes the forwarding of information we receive from issuers, their paying agents or from our custodians about income payments, such as interest or dividend payments, and redemptions to our securities account holders.
We provide you with this advance information related to the securities positions on your securities accounts via our online client (Asset Servicing Client) and by SWIFT (MT564).
Annex 20 Custody Notifications and other Information
For securities which OeKB CSD keeps and administers with a custodian (Investor CSD), OeKB CSD will claim from the custodian the
- Income for securities due and
- Credit of the collected amounts.
Options for the Collection of Income for Securities Due:
For the income collection for securities due you as the securities account holder have the following options in the event of income:
OeKB CSD as Issuer CSD | OeKB CSD as Investor CSD |
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You can choose not to collect the income for securities due for a certain securities position of a specified category. If you would like to do so, we will process your instruction as specified in Annex 21 Guideline Forwarding of Income Payments and Annex 22 User Manual Asset Servicing Client. |
You can choose not to collect the income for securities due for a certain securities position of a specified category (if a corresponding agreement has been made with the custodian and if it is administrable by us). If you would like to do so, we will inform the custodian of your instruction as specified in Annex 21 Guideline Forwarding of Income Payments and Annex 23 Issuing of Instructions Asset Servicing. |
You can choose to collect the income for securities due without deduction of Austrian Withholding Tax for a certain securities position of a specified category if you state the statutory exemption which you invoke. If you would like to do so, we will process your instruction as specified in Annex 21 Guideline Forwarding of Income Payments and Annex 22 User Manual Asset Servicing Client. |
You can choose to collect the income for securities due with consideration of a reduced Withholding Tax rate for a certain securities position of a specified category (if a corresponding agreement has been made with the custodian and if it is administrable by us) if you state the statutory exemption which you invoke. If you would like to do so, we will inform the custodian of your instruction as specified in Annex 21 Guideline Forwarding of Income Payments and Annex 23 Issuing of Instructions Asset Servicing. |
Income Payments in Euro:
We credit the received income payments in Euro to the Dedicated Cash Account (DCA) of the corresponding securities account holder.
Income Payments in Foreign Currency:
We credit the received income payments in foreign currency to the corresponding foreign currency cash account of the securities account holders held with us. This applies to the following currencies:
AUD, BGN, CAD, CHF, CZK, GBP, HKD, HUF, JPY, NOK, NZD, PLN, RON, SEK, TRY, USD, ZAR |
All other currencies will be converted to Euro if possible.
The resulting income payments will be credited to the Dedicated Cash Account (DCA) of the corresponding securities account holders.
It may happen that you as a securities account holder do not have a respective foreign currency account with OeKB CSD when you expect an income payment in a foreign currency. In this special case we will automatically open a foreign currency account for you.
You would like to know more?
Take a look at our guideline:
Annex 21 Guideline Forwarding of Income Payments
Market Claims and Transformations:
Market claim means the process of re-allocation of income from a distribution with the aim to provide the actually entitled holders with the amount of cash/quantity of units they are entitled to.
A transformation is the process which, in the event of a reorganisation, cancels pending settlement instructions and generates new instructions according to the reorganisation conditions.
You will find everything you need to know in our guideline and the additional information:
Annex 25 Using T2S for Transaction Management
Our scope of services in detail:
We automatically process all corporate actions (e.g. splits, capital decreases, mergers, spin-offs, capital increases) for all securities which OeKB CSD keeps and administers itself or with a custodian. Among other things, our service includes the forwarding of information we receive from issuers, their paying agents or from our custodian to our securities account holders.
We provide you with this advance information related to the securities positions on your securities accounts via our online client (Asset Servicing Client) and by SWIFT (MT564).
Annex 20 Custody Notifications and other Information
In regard to securities which OeKB CSD keeps and administers itself as Issuer CSD, OeKB CSD will process technical measures relating to corporate actions (e.g. credit and debit of subscription rights, credit of bonus shares), if it has received the necessary means to do so.
In regard to securities which OeKB CSD keeps and administers as Investor CSD with a custodian, OeKB CSD will claim from the custodian all measures associated with corporate actions which the corresponding custodian provides as its services.
OeKB CSD will credit and debit securities accounts and cash accounts as a consequence of corporate actions corresponding to the credit balances on the securities accounts at the end of the T2S Opening Day (day of operation) on the respective record date (or, if applicable, at the beginning of the T2S Opening Day (day of operation) on the ex-date). In case OeKB CSD acts as Investor CSD this will apply provided that our accounts with our custodian have been credited or debited. For further details please refer to:
GTC of OeKB CSD, section 6.3.2 (1), (2)
Annex 28 Guideline Processing of Corporate Actions
Options for Corporate Actions:
For corporate actions we differentiate as follows:
OeKB CSD as Issuer CSD | OeKB CSD as Investor CSD |
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Mandatory corporate actions:
You can choose not to redeem income payments out of corporate actions due for a certain securities position of a specified category. If you would like to do so, we will process your instruction as specified in Annex 28 Guideline Processing of Corporate Actions and Annex 22 User Manual Asset Servicing Client. |
Mandatory corporate actions:
You can choose not to redeem income payments out of corporate actions due for a certain securities position of a specified category (if a corresponding agreement has been made with the custodian and if it is administrable by us). If you would like to do so, we will inform the custodian of your instruction as specified in Annex 28 Guideline Processing of Corporate Actions and Annex 23 Issuing of Instructions Asset Servicing. |
Voluntary corporate actions: In case of voluntary corporate actions you as the securities account holder can decide whether you would like to participate. If you decide to participate in the voluntary corporate action, you can request the processing as specified in Annex 23 Issuing of Instructions Asset Servicing. |
Voluntary corporate actions: In case of voluntary corporate actions you as the securities account holder can decide whether you would like to participate. If you decide to participate in the voluntary corporate action, you can request the processing as specified in Annex 23 Issuing of Instructions Asset Servicing. We will forward your instruction to our custodian. |
Processing of Securities Bookings:
We credit and debit the securities bookings related to corporate actions to and from the securities accounts as settlement instructions (DFP/RFP and DVP/RVP) in the T2S system.
Processing of Cash Bookings:
The forwarding of amounts received in the course of income collections from mandatory corporate actions is made corresponding to the credit balances on the securities accounts of OeKB CSD at the end of the T2S Opening Day (day of operation) on the respective record date or, as relevant, at the beginning of the T2S Opening Day (day of operation) on the respective ex-date.
These amounts will be forwarded to the securities account holders pro rata according to the credit balances, even if the amount received in the process of collection does not correspond to the amount due.
Corporate Action Payments in Euro:
We credit the received corporate action payments in Euro to the Dedicated Cash Account (DCA) of the corresponding securities account holder.
Corporate Action Payments in Foreign Currency:
We credit the received corporate action payments in foreign currency to the corresponding foreign currency cash account of the securities account holders held with us. This applies to the following currencies:
AUD, BGN, CAD, CHF, CZK, GBP, HKD, HUF, JPY, NOK, NZD, PLN, RON, SEK, TRY, USD, ZAR |
All other currencies will be converted to Euro if possible.
The resulting corporate action payments will be credited to the DCA of the corresponding securities account holders.
It may happen that you as a securities account holder do not have a respective foreign currency account with OeKB CSD when you expect a corporate action payment in a foreign currency. In this case we will automatically open a foreign currency account for you.
You would like to know more?
Take a look at our guideline:
Annex 28 Guideline Processing of Corporate Actions
Market Claims and Transformations:
Market claim means the process of re-allocation of income from a distribution with the aim to provide the actually entitled holders with the amount of cash/quantity of units they are entitled to.
A transformation is the process which, in the event of a reorganisation, cancels pending settlement instructions and generates new instructions according to the reorganisation conditions.
You will find everything you need to know in our guideline and the additional information:
Annex 25 Using T2S for Transaction Management
Our scope of services in detail:
Record Date:
OeKB CSD has concluded a Qualified Intermediary Agreement (QIA) with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). As a result we have a QI1-Status (incl. primary withholding responsibility and primary form 1099 reporting and backup withholding responsibility) and are IGA2 Modell FATCA compliant as Participating Foreign Financial Institution (PFFI).
Our scope of services in detail:
If you hold Austrian shares with us and are the shareholder yourself, we will issue Confirmations of Holdings for you as a securities account holder.
You would like to benefit from this service?
See below how to request the issuance of a Confirmation of Holdings from us:
Instruction to issue a Confirmation of Holdings
Annex 23 Issuing of Instructions Asset Servicing
Annex 14 Confirmations of Holdings