Coupon interest

Coupon Interest is an interest rate paid on an instrument, for example, a bond or structured product, and will be distributed to account holders.

In this article, we explain how to apply coupon interest amount per share to BFS accounts.

In BFS a coupon interest can be applied from two different menus, from the menu Product Management > Corporate Actions OR from the action menu at the Instrument. Either way, the result will be the same.

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A pop-up ticket will appear on the screen. First choose an instrument.

Next choose the type of corporate action, in this example: Coupon interest

This will open a creation dialogue where you can define the following properties.

Property	Description
Name	Is pre-filled, but can be changed. For example: typeofcorporateaction_ISIN_date / CouponInterestCash_SE1234565555_20170117
Trade Date	This is the date that should be used as the TradeDate on the created transactions.
Value Date	This is the date that should be used as the ValueDate on the created transactions.
Settlement Date	This is the date that should be used as the SettlementDate on the created transactions.
Capitalization Date	The Capitalization Date is the date when the accrued interest was capitalized.
Total Amount	The total amount of the coupon interest.
Amount Per Share	Coupon interest amount per share (currency of the instrument) that will be applied to account holders that had a position in the instrument in the settlement dimension the same day as Capitalization Date.
Custody Account (Cash)	The deposit of the total coupon amount that will be booked into the selected custody account.
Exception Account	If the amount does not match the difference has to be booked into a exeption account.

Click Create to create the coupon interest.

The coupon has now been Created. Click on the button Prepare to view which transactions will be made for each account.

The coupon interest now has status Prepared which means that the back office administrators gets a preview of all transactions that will be made. As long as the coupon has the status Prepare the back office administrators can change the parameters.

House summary shows each house account and the amount that will be entered there. If there is a large amount in the exception account there could be trades that are not settled yet.

Resulting Clien’s view, the customer has received a coupon interest and has a tax transaction.

If you need to correct the corporate action please read this article: Correct batch transactions