BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Corporate Action
- a measure that a company takes that has an effect on the number of shares outstanding or the rights that apply to shares
Additional Resources
- Global Corporate Action Service Introduced
- This is one of the business strategy provided by DTCC that launched the Global Corporate Action GCA validation service, which will reinvent the way corporate action announcements are managed by financial institutions worldwide, helping to eliminate redundant operations and technology. The goal is to provide a seamless corporate action announcement...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter Selects Fidelity's ActionSource for Advanced Global Corporate Action Processing
- BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--June 2, 1998--Enterprise Data Systems, a Fidelity Technology Solutions company, announced today that Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter and Company, Incorporated has licensed ActionSourcetm, Fidelity's advanced global corporate action processing software. ActionSource improves the quality of corporate action information by automating the collection, verification and distribution of corporate action information...
- Research articles 1998-06-02
- Credit Suisse First Boston Chooses DTCC's Global Corporate Action Validation Service; Number of Global Financial Firms Using DTCC for Global Corporate Action Information Continues to Grow
- NEW YORK -- The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation DTCC today announced that Credit Suisse First Boston CSFB, a leading global financial services company, has selected the Global Corporate Action GCA Validation Service to drive efficiency and automation for its corporate action announcements.
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Corporate Action Risk: A Call to Action
- Reducing the risks associated with global corporate actions is too great and too costly for individual financial institutions to tackle. Rather, it is an industry-wide challenge that will benefit from an industry-wide approach. This includes working with the sources of the data - the companies announcing the corporate action event...
- White papers 2005-05-26
- Abbey Financial Markets Chooses DTCC for Global Corporate Action Information.
- LONDON, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation DTCC today announced that Abbey Financial Markets has chosen DTCC's Global Corporate Action Validation Service GCA VS to automate, streamline and reduce risk for corporate actions. Abbey Financial Markets...
- Research articles 2007-03-08
- Penson Financial Services Canada Chooses DTCC for Global Corporate Action Information
- Penson Financial Services Canada becomes the first Canadian clearing firm to join corporate actions service NEW YORK -- The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation DTCC today announced that Penson Financial Services Canada Inc. has chosen DTCC's Global Corporate Action Validation Service GCA VS to automate, streamline and reduce risk...
- Research articles 2007-05-03
- Corporate Action Processing: Complexity and Risk
- This article describes how the risks in corporate action processing arise and provides some indications of the magnitude of these risks. The article explains that corporate actions not only involve processing risks in the back office, but also significant trading risks in the front office. It concludes with a discussion...
- White papers 2004-07-23
- JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services Launches Electronic Delivery of Corporate Action Information; Institutional investors get shareholder information faster and easier
- NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services, a leading global provider of custody and investor related services, announced today that it will offer electronic distribution of corporate action materials. The new web-based system gets materials out faster, is easier to use, and eliminates the distribution of thousands of paper documents...
- Research articles 2005-06-07
- New Report Calls for Fast Corporate Action to Curb Escalating Power Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Resulting from Computing
- McKinsey & Company, with Support from Uptime Institute, Recommends Doubling Data Center Energy Efficiency by 2012 ORLANDO, Fla. -- Please replace the release dated April 30, 2008 with the following corrected version due to revisions to second graph and also to subhead. The corrected release reads: NEW...
- Research articles 2008-05-02
- What Are Corporate Actions?
- When a publicly-traded company issues a corporate action, it is initiating a process that will bring actual change to its stock. By understanding these different types of processes and their effects, an investor can have a clearer picture of what a corporate action indicates about a company's financial affairs and...
- White papers 2003-08-13
- More Than 300 Clients Rely on Advent Corporate Actions(R) for Integrated Corporate Actions Processing and Reporting
- Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), the leading provider of software and solutions for the global investment management industry, today announced that the total number of Advent Corporate Actions® ACA clients has reached 300, highlighting the product's success. ACA, a straight-through-processing service, delivers customized, position-level corporate action reports for a...
- Research articles 2008-01-16
- Market Report: Talk of action at Guinness revives investors' spirits
- Guinness is, once again, intriguing the stock market. For a long while the shares drifted forlornly, weighed down by squeezed profits, the fierce competition in the spirits market and whether the group had the strength to push through much needed price increases. Yet after edging perilously close to...
- Research articles 1996-07-02
- A model of corporate action
- Cynthia Henry covers energy and the environment for The Inquirer Editorial Board Businesses don't often lobby government for tougher environmental rules. Usually, they fight or sue over federal regulation. But one voice, DuPont, based in Wilmington, leads a corporate chorus calling for a national crackdown on climate...
- Research articles 2007-02-15
- Facebook as Corporate Intranet -- It's Starting to Happen
- Facebook as Corporate Intranet -- It's Starting to HappenPerception ... and then some realityOne look at the adoption of the search engine "god" Google in enterprises is a clear indication of how adoption of others will go. Slow ...Security, manageability and performance have been the achilles heel of all consumer...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- UM policy may hang on election; UM seeks help from corporate "friends".(University of Michigan affirmative action programs)(Brief Article)
- The University of Michigan hopes the corporate world will help it defend its affirmative action programs, and Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) might lend a hand. In July, General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) filed an amicus brief in support of UM's admissions ...
- Research articles 2000-09-18
- Wisconsin turns loss into win; Investors gain by new model for class action crafted from Anicom case.(Other Views)
- Byline: Keith L. Johnson and Ken McNeil Investors are being ill-served by the legal system when it comes to addressing corporate fraud. Hundreds of class-action lawsuits are filed each year, but recoveries come slow and are a fraction of what was l Byline: Keith...
- Research articles 2004-05-17
- Lawyers undermine securities law reform. (executives campaigning for transfer of some class-action suits to federal courts)
- Execs revive group as class-action cases shift to state courts Tired of being sued every time they reported disappointing earnings or their stock price unexpectedly plunged, corporate executives in 1995 pushed through a new federal law limiting such leExecs revive group as class-action cases shift to state...
- Research articles 1997-09-15
- National Action Network Files FCC Complaint Against Mediacom
- DETROIT, April 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Reverend Horace Sheffield III, the president of the Michigan Chapter of the National Action Network NAN has filed a formal FCC complaint via Email against Mediacom citing EchoStar corporate irresponsibility in not adDETROIT, April 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Reverend Horace Sheffield III, the president...
- Research articles 2002-04-26
- Sabre takes a stab at GDS costs with corporate connect plan. (In the News).(Brief Article)
- WASHINGTON--The GDSs and their corporate online booking arms apparently have heard airline complaints about rising booking fees--and now they are starting to take action. The question, however, is whether this will lead to an entire overhaul in the r WASHINGTON--The GDSs and their corporate online booking...
- Research articles 2002-07-29
- AUSTRALIA'S FORMER ONE.TEL BOSS DEMANDS INFO ON COURT ACTION.
- SYDNEY, April 1 Asia Pulse - Former One.Tel boss Jodee Rich today pursued his legal push for Australia's corporate watchdog to disclose how it built its $A92 million ($US55.43 million) civil action against him. SYDNEY, April 1 Asia Pulse - Former One.Tel boss Jodee...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
