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Bank ACATS . BDUG Annual MeetingOctober 24,2005Scottsdale, AR. Bank ACATS Program. Topics:History of ProgramPrimary DifferencesBenefits of ParticipationCurrent Bank/StatsCurrent InitiativesQuestions. . History of Program. Pilot for Banks 1999Originally 7 Banks ParticipatingGood Faith Effort
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3. Bank ACATS Program Topics:
History of Program
Primary Differences
Benefits of Participation
Current Bank/Stats
Current Initiatives
Questions
4. History of Program
Pilot for Banks 1999
Originally 7 Banks Participating
Good Faith Effort – Participation Not Mandated
Most Brokerage Firms Participated in Pilot
DTCC Opened Program to all Banks June 1999
5. Primary Differences
Good Faith Effort – Not Mandated
Paperwork Required
Assets Move Free of Payment
No Valued Fails
6. Benefits Customer Satisfaction
Reduced Timeframe to Transfer Account
Initial Experience a Positive One
Competitive Advantage
Cost Reduction
Follow up Process
Pending & Reversal of Transactions
Ability to Trade and Collect Fees Sooner
7. Benefits Electronic Notification of Assets and Cash
Standardization/Automation
Ability to Accelerate Process
Residual Balances Processing
Contacts within Financial Community
8. Current Users Bank of America
Bank One Trust Co.
Bank of NY
Citigroup PVT Bank
City Nat’l Bank
Comerica
Country Trust Bank
First American Trust
Fleet Bank
FNB Omaha
Glenmede Trust Co. Huntington Nat’l
IBT
Key Bank
Mellon Bank
Nat’l City Bank
Reliance Trust
SEI Trust Co.
State Street Bank
SunTrust Bank
UMB
Union Bank of Cal
Wachovia
9. Volumes (Transactions)
10. ACATS Process Overview
11. Current Initiatives Trust System Automation
Discussions with Regulatory Agencies
Cost Basis / IPS
Mutual Funds as Participants
13. Cost Basis Reporting Service Topics:
General Description of CBRS - What is it?
Benefits of CBRS
Current CBRS Users / Volume
CBRS Fees
14. What is CBRS? The Cost Basis Service (CBRS is an automated system that provides brokerage firms, banks and other financial organizations the ability to transfer cost basis information from one firm to another on any asset transfer through ACATS
Passes Asset and Tax Lot information for customer to calculate tax liability (gain & loss)
Available for a wide range of assets
15. Benefits of CBRS Expands firm’s customer service
Automates the transfer of Cost Basis data
Centralizes and standardizes the information transfer
Eliminates the manual re-entry and/or recalculation of Cost Basis portfolio information
Significantly reduces cost associated with obtaining and maintaining Cost Basis data
16. Current CBRS Users Currently 27 firms using CBRS
Merrill Lynch Linsco Private Ledger
Citigroup Janney Montgomery Scott
UBS Financial Pershing
Piper Jaffray HSBC Securities
Stifel Nicolaus Robert Baird
First Clearing Davenport
Wells Fargo Investments Huntleigh Securities
Ferris, Baker Watts Sterne, Agee & Leach
National Investors Hilliard Lyons
Wedbush Morgan Morgan Stanley DW
Legent Clearing Bear Stearns
Scott & Stringfellow Raymond James
H & R Block Morgan Keegan
National Financial
17. Current CBRS Volume Approximately 175,000 CBRS records processed on a daily basis
Approximately 35,000 assets and 140,000 tax lot records
Average 4.0 tax lots per asset
18. CBRS FEES 9 cents per asset record received (Receiver firm only)
Can have unlimited amount of associated Tax Lots per asset
19. CBRS Via PC Web Screen Input capability available
Expanded file upload capability for CBRS
Important Notice A#5999 dated March 14, 2005
21. What is ACATS/IPS? A link between the ACATS system and the IPS system to allow insurance assets to be included in a ACATS transaction.
IPS will be the link to the Insurance Carriers, as FundServ acts as the link for mutual fund assets in ACATS/FundServ.
ACATS/IPS automates broker/dealer change process between Broker/Dealers and Insurance Carriers.
22. ACATS/IPS - Goal “To automate the Broker/Dealer change process for Annuity contracts between Broker/Dealers, Banks and Insurance Carriers” by leveraging the ACATS and IPS processing systems”
23. ACATS/IPS - Benefits Elevate level of Customer Service
Eliminate “Lost” Annuity Contracts & Revenue
Automate Transaction Processing
Automate Notification of Transfer
True “Paperless” Process
25. ACATS/IPS – Production Insurance Carriers:
Allstate
The Hartford
Pacific Life Insurance
Broker/Dealers:
Merrill Lynch
Piper Jaffray (Beta)
Robert W. Baird (Beta)
Stifel Nicolaus (Beta)
Wachovia Securities (Beta)
Wells Fargo Investments (Beta)
26. ACATS/IPS – Website Info insurance.dtcc.com
IFT Record Layouts
Standard Usage
ACATS/IPS User Guide
Selling Agreement Samples
Fact Sheets
acats.nscc.com
ACATS Record Layouts
ACATS/IPS User Guide
27. Strategic Initiatives of SIA CAT Division Increasing financial institutions participation in ACATS
Banks – Sub-committee meeting every 3 weeks
Coordinated by Bill Kapogiannis
Insurance Companies – Continue to grow ACATS/IPS interface
Mutual Funds
Liquidations
Potentially shortening the ACATS cycle – 7 to 4 days
28. Proposed Process Change The ACATS process for full account transfers facilitates fast and efficient transfer of client assets. Both the investor and the member firms benefit from speed and efficiency with which client transfer request can be communicated, validated and settled through ACATS.
The industry as a whole would realize significant processing efficiencies and standardization provided non-ACAT firms fully participated in the ACATS process
Specifically, Mutual Fund Companies and current ACATS participants would greatly increase processing efficiencies and standardize the transfer process by leveraging the ACATS functionality currently available to Banks (and other non-broker/dealer firms) for non-valued transfers.
29. Benefits Mutual Fund Companies would be able to utilize the Partial Transfer Receive and Partial Transfer Deliver functions to move client assets.
Mutual fund companies would no longer be dependent upon instructions from the broker/dealer.
Increase the level of client satisfaction through greater reliability and speed
30. Benefits con’t… There would be a diminished risk of re-registered shares left unaccounted for at the fund companies; these positions become seemingly lost to the client
Retirement transfers between funds and broker/dealers would no longer require the creation of intermediary accounts
Participant firms and Mutual Fund Companies would have a standardized, automated process for handling non-ACATS transfers by introducing them into existing ACAT functionality.
31. Next Steps Create industry committee. The following fund companies are participating:
Putnam
Fidelity
Janus
Develop detailed process flow and requirements
32. LIQUIDATION OF MUTUAL FUNDS VIA THE ACAT SERVICE IN TODAY’S ENVIRONMENT
SPEED AND ACCURACY IS THE KEY
33. ISSUES RECEIVING AND DELIVERING FIRMS DO NOT HAVE A STANDARD OR UNIFORM PRACTICE FOR LIQUIDATING RECEIVER ADJUSTED MUTUAL FUNDS;
INVESTORS HAVE LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF WHY CERTAIN HOLDINGS CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED OR HELD AT NEW BROKER DEALER.
35. WHAT WE THINK WE NEED Develop new mechanism/transaction type;
Only Full ACATS will be eligible;
Firms need to establish consistency;
Firms will need internal control to prevent selling asset types not eligible
36. Next steps WHITE PAPER NEXT MONTH
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