Venezuela-related sanctions by the United States Department of the Treasury - Update VIII
Note: This announcement, first published on 4 February 2019 and updated several times, has been updated again to give further information. The changes have been highlighted.
Clearstream Banking1 refers to the publications made by the United States Department of the Treasury on 12 May 2020 with regards to Venezuela.
Clearstream Banking reminds customers of the requirement to comply, and ensure compliance by any of the customer’s underlying clients, with any applicable law or regulation.
Customers are additionally requested to note the following operational requirements:
Instructions to receive securities covered by General License 3H
When instructing the receipt of any of securities covered by General License 3H, customers must add the following new representation into the narrative field of their instruction (for example, field :70E: of the MT54x instruction):
“We represent: this instruction is covered by OFAC General License 3H; is ordinarily incident and necessary to transfer or divest, or to facilitate the transfer of the securities to a non-U.S. person; no SDN is involved; the ultimate recipient of the securities is neither a U.S. person nor an SDN or SDN equivalent.”
Instructions to receive securities covered by General License 9G
When instructing the receipt of any of securities covered by General License 9G, customers must add the following new representation into the narrative field of their instruction (for example, field :70E: of the MT54x instruction):
“We represent: this instruction is covered by OFAC General License 9G; is ordinarily incident and necessary to transfer or divest, or to facilitate the transfer of the securities to a non-U.S. person; no SDN is involved; the ultimate recipient of the securities is neither a U.S. person nor an SDN or SDN equivalent.”
Instructions to deliver to the domestic market securities covered by General License 3H and General License 9G
For domestic market settlement, the customer delivering securities to the domestic market must either provide the same representation, or alternatively, represent that the instruction relates to an on-exchange transaction and the customer has no information in their possession leading it to know or to have reason to know that the ultimate buyer is a U.S. person.
Note: If for some reason it is not possible to add the representation to the narrative field of the instruction, we require a separate authorised communication which must provide the Transaction Reference(s) to allow reconciliation of the representation back to each instruction.
Further information
For further information, customers may contact Clearstream Banking Client Services or their Relationship Officer.
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1. Clearstream Banking refers collectively to Clearstream Banking S.A., registered office at 42, avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register under number B-9248, and Clearstream Banking AG (for Clearstream Banking AG customers using Creation Accounts), registered office at 61, Mergenthalerallee, 65760 Eschborn, Germany and registered in Register B of the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany under number HRB 7500.