CFF: Franklin Templeton International Services migrates to CFF

Effective

Monday 20 June 2016

investment fund shares in funds handled by Franklin Templeton International Services Sàrl, Luxembourg and listed in the attached spreadsheet will use the Central Facility for Funds (CFF) service.

All customers of Clearstream Banking¹ that hold positions in these investment fund shares will immediately benefit from the CFF process and services.

Migration details

Scope: Funds available in Clearstream Banking handled by Franklin Templeton International Services Sàrl, Luxembourg as Transfer Agent (please refer to the attached spreadsheet).

Migration Day (MD): Monday 20 June 2016

Fund Issuance Account (FIA): 10671²

Time-line for process adaptations:

• All trades with settlement date MD and later will use the CFF processes and settle against FIA 10671 in Clearstream Banking, as listed in the associated spreadsheet.
• Pending settlements from trade date MD-1 and earlier continue to be settled with the existing process.
• Clearstream Banking will automatically transfer all positions in the overnight processing preceding MD. No action is required by Clearstream Banking account holders.
• All transfers (In/Out or between accounts) must be performed using the CFF processes for MD and later.
• Transfers that do not follow the CFF processes can be executed, at the latest, on the business day MD-1.
• Pending transfers that do not follow the CFF processes will be rejected by Clearstream Banking in the overnight processing preceding MD and will need to be re-instructed by the customer on MD.
• Customers are recommended to instruct transfers by end-of-day MD-3 in order to ensure execution before the migration.
• All corporate actions with Record Date MD and later will use the CFF processes.

Further information

For more detailed information about CFF please refer to the Clearstream Banking Customer Handbook.

For further information, please contact as appropriate:

For more general information regarding Clearstream Banking products and services, customers may contact their Relationship Officer.

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1. Clearstream Banking refers collectively to Clearstream Banking AG, registered office at 61, Mergenthalerallee, 65760 Eschborn, Germany and registered in the Register B of the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany under number HRB 7500 and Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, registered office at 42, avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, and registered with the Luxembourg Register of Commerce and Companies under number B-9248.
2. Customers can use the Fund Market Account of CFF (“FMA01”) as Counterparty account in their settlement instructions