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Introduction
The below documentation is ASX Settlement Procedure Guidelines (APG), dated November 2021. This documentation is specific to the the CHESS Replacement System.
Samples, Forms and Appendices will be made available in a subsequent release.
November Release entails updates to the following previously released section:
Section 02 - CHESS overview;
Section 03 - Participation in the settlement facility;
Section 04 - Account administration;
Section 08 - Market trade processing;
Section 11 - Corporate actions;
Section 22 - Issuer (registry) procedures; and
Section 23 - mFund settlement service.
Printing
ASX only publishes the APG electronically; it is available online at ASX CHESS Replacement Technical Documentation as online Confluence pages and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Previous versions will be collated in bulk sections, however to reduce the printing overheads and the management of multiple documents, this version will only update directly impacted sections.
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Further Assistance
If you have any questions about the ASX Settlement Procedure Guidelines (APG), please contact ASX Operations on 1300 300 289 who, if unable to assist you, will direct your query to the appropriate ASXS staff member.
Section 04 - Account administration
4.1 - Establishing a CHESS Holder and allocating a HIN
4.2 - Registration Name and Address Standards
4.2.1 - Registration Concepts
4.2.2 - Registered Name Standards
4.2.3 - Permitted ASCII Characters per Field
4.2.4 - Registration Address Standards
4.2.5 - Communication Preference
4.3 - Provision of Email Addresses
4.3.1 - Email Address
4.3.2 - Updates or Cancellation to an Email Address
4.4 - Provision of Tax File Numbers (or TFN Exemption Codes) and Australian Business Numbers
4.4.1 - Submitting TFNs, TFN Exemption Codes and ABNs for CHESS Holdings
4.4.2 - Submitting TFNs, TFN Exemption Codes and ABNs for Transfers between Subregisters
4.5 - Provision of Bank Account Details
4.5.1 - Submitting Bank Account Details for CHESS Holdings
4.6 - Issuer (Registry) Objection to Account (HIN) Registration Details
4.6.1 - CHESS Account (HIN) Details
4.6.2 - Issuer Sponsored Holdings
4.7 - CHESS Account (HIN) Modification
4.7.1 - ASX Expectations Regarding Authority to Change Account (HIN) Details
4.7.2 - Supporting Documentation Requirements
4.7.3 - Changing an Account (HIN)’s Registration Details but NOT Legal Title
4.7.4 - Changing an Account (HIN)’s Registration Details AND Legal Title
4.7.5 - Changing an Account (HIN)'s Type
4.8 - Change of Controlling Participant for a CHESS Account (HIN)
4.8.1 - Changing the Controlling Participant for One Account (HIN)
4.8.2 - Changing the Controlling Participant for Multiple Accounts (HINs) (Bulk Movement)
4.8.3 - Transferring a Holding across Participants
4.8.4 - Controlling Participant Enquiries
4.9 - Account and Holder Locking
4.9.1 - Notification of a Deceased Holder
4.9.2 - Death of an Individual Holder
4.9.3 - Death of a Joint Holder
4.9.4 - Notification of a Bankrupt Holder
4.9.5 - Bankruptcy of an Individual Holder
4.9.6 - Bankruptcy of a Joint Holder
4.9.7 - Court Order
4.9.8 - Non-specific
4.9.9 - Processing an Account and Holder Lock
4.10 - Account and Holder Unlocking
4.10.1 Death of a Holder
4.10.2 - Bankruptcy of a Holder
4.10.3 - Court Order
4.10.4 - Processing an Account and Holder Unlock
4.11 Account and Holder Locking/Unlocking - Subregister Conversions
4.11.1 Conversions due to Death
4.11.2 Conversions due to Bankruptcy
4.11.3 - Processing a Subregister Conversion due to a Death or Bankruptcy
4.12 - Cancellation of Accounts (HINs)
Section 09 - Settlement
Section 18 - Warrants
18.2.1 - Create Inventory of Warrant Units for the Warrant Issuer’s Agent
18.2.2 - Warrant Delivery by the Warrant Issuer’s Agent to the CHESS Subregister
18.2.3 - Warrant Delivery by the Warrant Issuer’s Agent to the Issuer Sponsored Subregister
18.2.4 - Warrant Delivery by Issuer (Registry) to CHESS Subregister
Section 22 - Issuer (registry) procedures
Glossary Terms
- Account
- Account Participant
- Accrual
- Accumulation Account
- Accumulation Entrepot
- Active Contract
- Active Contract Set (ACS)
- Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
- Aggregation
- Alliance Access Integration Platform (IPLA)
- Alliance Messaging Hub (AMH)
- AMQP Connection
- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF)
- API Contract
- Approved Financial Products
- Approved Market Operator (AMO)
- Archived Contract
- ASX Adjustment Date
- ASX Clear Pty Limited (ASXCL)
- ASX Settlement Pty Limited (ASXS)
- ASX Trade
- AUSTRAC
- Austraclear System
- Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
- Authentication
- Authorisation
- Authorisation Cut-off
- Automated Information Facility (AIF)
- Available Balance
- Batch Payment
- Batch Settlement
- Bilateral Demand Settlement Instruction
- Bilateral Demand Transfer
- Bilateral Settlement Instruction
- Bond
- Browser
- Business Application Header (BAH)
- Business Day
- Business Identifier Code (BIC)
- Cash Account
- Cash CCP Transactions
- Cash Market Margin (CMM)
- Cash Market transaction
- CHESS
- CHESS Depositary Interest (CDI)
- CHESS Depositary Nominees Pty Limited (CDN)
- CHESS Units of Foreign Securities (CUFS)
- CHESS User
- Choice
- Clearing
- Clearing and Settlement Platform (CSP)
- Clearing Participant (CP)
- Command
- Common Reporting Standard (CRS)
- Consumer
- Controlling Participant
- Conversion
- Coupon Interest
- CSP Sub-register
- Cum Entitlement Balances (CEBs)
- Daily Settlement Session
- DAML Contract
- DAML Library
- DAML Party
- DAML Software Development Kit (SDK)
- DAML Template
- Data Service
- Deferred Settlement
- Delivery versus Payment (DvP)
- Demand Transaction
- Depositary Interest (DI)
- Derivatives Clearing System (DCS)
- Derivatives Trading Platform (DTP)
- Direct Clearing Participant
- Direct Holding
- Distinguished Name / DN
- Distribution In Specie
- Durable
- Egress
- EIS
- Encryption
- End of Day
- Entitlement
- Event
- Exchange Settlement Account (ESA)
- Exchange Traded Funds (ETFS)
- Exchange Traded Option (ETO)
- Ex-Date
- Exercising a Choice
- Ex-Period
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Face value
- Feeder System
- Financial Products
- First Allowable Settlement Date
- First in, first out (FIFO)
- First Settlement Date
- FIX
- Fixed Period Settlement
- Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)
- Foreign Depositary Interests (FDIs)
- Foreign Ownership Restrictions
- Foreign to Foreign Allocation
- Free of Payment (FoP)
- Fund Request Cut-off
- General Clearing Participant
- General Settlement Participant
- Government Bond
- Government Depositary Interest
- Holder
- Holder Identification Number (HIN)
- Holder Identifier
- Holding
- Holding Adjustment
- Holding Balance
- Holding Lock
- Holding Subposition
- Idempotent
- Ingress
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- InterAct
- International Securities Identification Number (ISIN)
- ISO 20022
- Issue Date
- Issuer
- Issuer Sponsored Subregister
- Knock On
- Ledger
- Ledger API
- Ledger API Integration
- Managed Fund Settlement Service (mFund)
- Market Participant
- Market Settlement Participant
- Master Contract
- Maturity
- Message Type (MT)
- MX
- MyStandards
- National Guarantee Fund (NGF)
- Net Funds Obligation
- Nil paid rights
- Node
- Non-Batch Settlement
- Non-Market Participant
- Non-Market Settlement Participant
- Non-Trading Settlement Participant
- Non-Value
- Novated Trade
- Observer
- Off Market Transaction
- On Market Transaction
- Parent Financial Product
- Participant
- Participant Bidder
- Participant Offeror
- Paying Bank
- Payment Facility
- Payments Provider
- Primary Market Facility (PMF)
- Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM)
- Private Contract Store (PCS)
- Procedure Guidelines
- Producer
- Product Disclosure Statement (PDS)
- Product Issuer Settlement Participant (PISP)
- Queue
- Readiness Portal
- Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)
- Receiving Bank
- Record Date
- Registered Name
- Registration Details
- Registration Id (RGID)
- Registry
- Registry Transaction
- Reserve Bank Information & Transfer System (RITS)
- RTGS Participant
- RTGS Payment
- Scrip Dividend
- Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
- Securities Exchanges Guarantee Corporation (SEGC)
- Security Code
- SecurityHolder Reference Number (SRN)
- Session
- Settlement
- Settlement cut-off
- Settlement Date
- Settlement Entrepot
- Settlement Instruction
- Settlement Offset
- Settlement Participant (SP)
- Settlement Tolerance Amount
- Settlement Transaction
- Shunt
- Specialist Settlement Participant
- Sponsored Holders
- Standards
- Standard Settlement Price (SSP)
- Start of Day
- Static
- Subregister
- SWIFT
- SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA)
- SWIFTNet
- Third Party Clearing and Settlement Participant
- Token
- Token Issuer
- Trade
- Trading
- Trading, Clearing and Settlement Participant
- Trading and Account Participant
- Trading Participant (TP)
- Transaction Id
- Transfer
- Transformation
- Transmutation
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- Unilateral Demand Transfer
- Unilateral Demand Transfer Participant Group
- Unilateral Settlement Instruction
- User Identification Code (UIC)
- Validations
- Valuation Price