Announcement

Alternative Funds Services: Release notes - May 2015

Investment Fund Services

Reference

Code
A15091
Service level
CBL
Last Updated
30.04.2015

Effective

11 May 2015

Clearstream Banking1 will implement improvements to cash statements and reports related to transactions of the Alternative Funds Services (AFS). This release changes how references of the AFS transactions are quoted in the cash statements and reports, in order to simplify the reconciliation processing for customers.

MT900/910 Confirmation of Debit/Credit reports

In field :20: Transaction Reference Number, the payment reference of Clearstream Banking is specified. It is composed of the letter “V”, the Clearstream Funds Net (CFN) financial instrument identifier (the CFN ID), a hyphen and an alphanumeric reference code.

Example

:20:V123456-R789T2

The second line of field :72: Sender to Receiver Information is composed of the prefix “/REC/”, the customer’s own order reference, a space, the ISIN, another space and the name of the financial instrument and any other narrative. This information will be wrapped over the subsequent lines that are prefixed by “//”. If the information uses four lines or less, a last line with the prefix “/RELA/” is used to repeat the customer’s own order reference.

Example

:72:/PDAT/20150511070000
/REC/Abc987def654 LU0123456789 Gran
//d Central Fund
/RELA/Abc987def654

MT940/950 Money Suspense/Statement reports

In field :61: Statement Line, the last two subfields have the following content:

  • Subfield 8 quotes the payment reference of Clearstream Banking as defined in field :20: in the MT900/910 above; and
  • Subfield 9 is not prefixed by a forward slash (“/”) and composed of the customer’s own order reference, a space, the ISIN, another space and as much as possible of the name of the financial instrument that fits within the full field length of 35 characters, with all alphabetical characters reported in UPPER case.

Example

:61:150511 0511D            256250,00  FVES NONREF// V123456-R789T2

ABC987DEF654 LU0123456789 GRAND CEN

Note: For payments where no customer’s own order reference exists, for example corporate actions, Clearstream Banking’s payment reference is used in place of the customer’s own order reference.

Further information

For further information and detailed descriptions of all updates to CFN, customers may contact their AFS Client Team.

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1. Clearstream Banking refers collectively to Clearstream Banking AG, registered office at 61, Mergenthalerallee, 65760 Eschborn, Germany and registered in Register B of the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany under number HRB 7500, and Clearstream Banking S.A., registered office at 42, Avenue J. F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register under number B 9248.