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Corporate actions & entitlements
CDS Innovations offers a comprehensive suite of services designed to provide the latest information on Canadian entitlements and corporate actions.


CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc (CDS® Clearing) has access to the latest information on entitlements and corporate actions.

To distribute this information to the marketplace, CDS:

  • Proactively gathers information from reliable sources (such as issuers, transfer agents, exchanges and depositories)
  • Scrubs the data
  • Compiles a comprehensive index of information on securities available in Canada.

CDS Clearing provides information on 54 types of Canadian entitlement events:

  • 21 distribution events without options
  • 2 distribution events with options
  • 17 mandatory events without options
  • 4 mandatory events with options
  • 10 voluntary events.

CDS Innovations offers CDS Clearing's entitlement and corporate action event data on CDSX®-eligible equity and debt securities through three services:


CDS Bulletins and Enhanced Bulletins

Updated throughout the day, this internet-accessible service provides consolidated event data. The Enhanced Bulletins service appends original issuer documents that are available in electronic form.


Bulletins

Updated throughout the day, this internet-accessible service provides consolidated event data. The Bulletins service appends original issuer documents that are available in electronic form.


CDSX Entitlements Data Feed

A daily batch file accessible through secure file transfer protocol (SFTP).


CDSX Entitlements Messaging

Real-time event data reported through SWIFT messages.

Additional
information
Product sheet
Entitlements Information services
(PDF, 2 pages)

Benefits
Timely information - CDS Clearing is first to receive data from Canadian issuers and their transfer agents. This data is verified and published within 24 hours of receipt.
Authoritative source - experienced CDS specialists gather, analyze and summarize data from a wide range of Canadian and international sources.
Reliable data - CDS Clearing keeps verified records of all data distributed through its entitlements information services.


CDSX Entitlements Data Feed and CDS Entitlements Messaging Additional benefits:

Supports straight-through processing (STP) – entitlement information can be automatically updated in subscriber systems

Information can be relayed directly to intermediaries and their customers without manual intervention

Enables automated information reconciliation, monitoring, analysis and historical data retrieval.