TRS Corporate Actions Processing Notes

Accounting has core support for three types of corporate actions on TRSs: cash dividends, stock dividends, and stock splits. Announcements are set up using the same workflow as regular equities. All corporate actions are processed in two steps: 

1. Creating the Corporate Action Announcement: establishes the details of the corporate action (ex date, pay date, dividend rate, etc.)
2. Triggering the corporate action for the targeted security and entity(ies)

The functionality for setting up TRS announcements is slightly different depending on your current Eagle release.

Prior to V17 R2

Separate announcements must be set up for the return leg of each TRS. For example: if there are 5 TRSs on Microsoft, 5 corporate action announcements are required. Start by searching for Cash Dividend, Stock Dividend, or Stock Split. Required data is listed below.

• Asset ID (14): enter the TRS's Primary Asset ID (only the return leg will be returned)
• Process Corporate Action for Swap (16813): controls whether the corporate action is triggered only for TRS (Yes) or only for direct equity holdings (No)
  • If you want to trigger the corporate action for both, you must run/schedule the job twice, once with each setting
• Sweep Date (1197): date when the global corporate action process will pick up and execute the corporate action (generally current date)
• Ex Date (65): date when the corporate action takes effect
• Pay Date (1275, required for cash dividends): date when cash settles
  • Typically set to the following reset payment date
• Treatment of Fractional Shares (3965, required for stock dividends and splits)
• Corporate Action Status (54) = Released
• Corporate Action Sub Priority (3961): order of priority for corporate actions processed on the same day
  • Enter 1 unless you have this scenario
• Dividend Rate (1259, required for cash dividends): on a per-share basis; only required for cash dividends
• Dividend Per Share/Rate Of Action (1001, required for stock dividends): enter the number of new shares to be spawned for each share of the current holding
• From Shares (1710): enter current number of shares of the return leg holding
• To Shares (1723): enter ending number of shares as a result of the corporate action
• Split Ratio (1001, required for stock splits): calculated automatically based on From Shares and To Shares
  • Can also be populated directly
• Corporate Action Type (1728) = Cash Dividend, Stock Dividend, or Stock Split

V17 R2 & Above

Corporate actions affecting TRSs can be automatically processed based on announcements for their underlying securities (this is optional if you are satisfied with the previous functionality). Following the previous example, the 5 TRSs on Microsoft can now be driven by an individual announcement for Microsoft.

• A Swap Reset Schedule must exist to settle cash dividends with the TRS reset; if one does not exist cash will settle based on the underlying corporate action announcement
• Corporate Action Reset Indicator (16633): controls the date cash settles for cash dividends
  • Pay Date (Swap Reset Schedule Exists): cash settles on next reset payment date following Pay Date from underlying announcement
  • Ex Date (Swap Reset Schedule Exists): cash settles on next reset payment date following Ex Date from underlying announcement
  • Pay Date (No Swap Reset Schedule): cash settles on Pay Date from underlying announcement
  • Ex Date (No Swap Reset Schedule): cash settles on Ex Date from underlying announcement
  • Corporate Action Pay Date: cash settles on Pay Date from underlying announcement (regardless of Swap Reset Schedule existence)
  • Note: when upgrading existing positions to V17 this field defaults to NULL, which results in the same activity as Corporate Action Pay Date; select an alternate value if you require a different settlement convention
• Stock Split: Treatment of Fractional Shares must be populated with a value other than European
  • Selecting European hides the Split Ratio field and uses a different calculation method
• Corporate actions are triggered using the same global processes as earlier versions, with the exception of the field below
  • Process Corporate Action on Swap (16813): if a corporate action is being reprocessed for a particular TRS underlying, setting this to No will prevent TRS on that underlying from being affected
    • Available only when Select Query Option (2283) = One Entity/One Security or All Entities/One Security when triggering the corporate action
• If you are on V17 R2 or above and want to use the previous functionality, you can continue setting up corporate action announcements directly for return legs
  • If a record has the same Ex Date as a corporate action on the underlying security, the return leg announcement will take priority and the underlying security's announcement will be ignored

Triggering Corporate Actions

Once announcements have been set up, they can be processed via an automated event or triggered manually.

• V17 & Above: Accounting Center > Processing and Exceptions > Global Processes > Corporate Actions > Cash Dividend Processing or Stock Dividends/Stock Splits
• Prior to V17: Global Process Center > Corporate Actions Processing > Cash Dividend or Stock Dividends/Stock Splits

Ensure Corporate Action Begin Sweep Date (220) and Corporate Action End Sweep Date (221) capture the Sweep Date you entered on the announcement(s).