About Pending Transactions and Same Lot Selection
When you use pending transactions and also use same lot selection, the system stores pending transactions for the controlling basis only, and creates trades for each additional basis when it is processing the pending trade. If you manually cancel a trade for an entity with the Pending Trade Eligible Indicator (tag 3679) set to Yes, the system inserts a copy of the manually cancelled transaction into the Pending Trades table for the controlling basis. Otherwise, if there is no controlling basis, it stores only a copy of the transaction for the primary basis.
About Corporate Action Transactions and Same Lot Selection
Same lot selection affects how the system selects lots when processing certain corporate actions associated with close activity. This ensures that the system can associate lots in one basis with the same originating lots in another basis.
When you use same lot selection, the system ensures it can identify lots created from taxable and non-taxable corporate actions and keep each basis in sync in terms of lot identifiers based on the corporate action activity. This includes To side opens such as entitlements created from lots that are fractured on a close of an underlying security and also includes open lots from payments in kind (PIKs), spinoffs, and so on. The system ensures that corporate action processes such as voluntary tenders that create partial closes close the same lots across bases. Straight through options processing such as the assignment of a short put option or exercise of a long call closes the same lots in each basis.
The system uses a single commit scope methodology while processing corporate actions with a From/To side such as nontaxable mergers with same lot selection to ensure that From/To corporate action processing for actions such as mergers or spinoffs has all the appropriate data available on the controlling basis From side and the non-controlling basis To side so that the non-controlling basis can process correctly. For example, if certain information is missing such that only some, but not all, of the From/To transactions for the corporate action across controlling and non-controlling bases can process successfully, the system does not process any of the related transactions. In this manner, the system ensures that all transaction for the corporate action process successfully in order to keep the lot structures in sync.
About Transfer and Adjustment Transactions and Same Lot Selection
When you use same lot selection, various "Reorg" type transaction panels display the controlling basis by default for the transaction. Examples includes include the Run Interportfolio Transfer panel and the Increase/Decrease Cost Adjustment panel. If no controlling basis is available, the panels display the selected entity's primary basis by default.
This enables interportfolio transfers to select the same lots when transferred out. The controlling basis identifies which lots were closed, and how much was closed from each, and passes that information over to the non-controlling bases, where it performs the close in an identified lot manner.