A 4979 - August 12, 1999
P&S 4541
TO: ALL PARTICIPANTS
ATTENTION: DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS; MANAGER P&S DEPARTMENT; MANAGER CASHIERS DEPARTMENT; MANAGER DATA PROCESSING
SUBJECT: RECAPS - SEPTEMBER 1999
The next cycle of NSCC’s Reconfirmation and Repricing Service (RECAPS) is scheduled for the week of September 13, 1999.
A part of the RECAPS mandate, instituted in the December 1990 cycle, is the SEC requirement that firms indicate upon submission those fails that are being submitted to RECAPS which were submitted in a previous RECAPS cycle and compared, but did not settle. Firms must use the indicator "R" in column "80" of the fail input record when submitting a repeat fail.
In addition, the number of repeat fails eligible to be reported to the SEC will be reported to the participants’ Designated Examining Authorities. Participants must maintain records documenting these fails.
Equity, Municipal, Corporate, UIT and Zero instrument fails five (5) business days and older will be accepted for recomparison and repricing. In preparing your fail files for submission, note that fails must be dated September 10, 1999 or earlier.
The following are the processing time frames for automated input. Participants utilizing NSCC branches for input should check with these locations directly for input deadlines:
| Tuesday, Sept. 14th | Participants must submit their CUSIP files for Friday’s anticipated fail input by 5:00pm |
| Friday, Sept. 17th | Participants must submit their fail input no late than 2:00am Saturday morning. |
| Sunday, Sept. 19th | NSCC will generate Contracts, CNS and NON-CNS Compared Trade Summaries, and Balance Orders to participants for Friday’s fail input for Monday review and supplemental processing. |
| Monday, Sept. 20th | Supplementary input (Advisories, As-Of's, DK's, Rejects) must be submitted no later than 4:00pm. |
| Tuesday, Sept. 21st | NSCC will generate Contracts, CNS and NON-CNS Compared Trade Summaries and Balance Orders for Monday’s supplemental input. |
Friday’s recompared fails and Monday's supplementary recompared fails will settle on Tuesday, September 21st, 1999.
The RECAPS application is now available on PC Web Direct for all member firms. Keypunching will be made available on a limited basis only. If this service is necessary, participants must contact the NSCC Participant Services Group @ (212) 412-8432 prior to sending any material to SIAC.
To minimize rerun requests, for those firms who utilize hardcopy output, please be on the lookout for output specifically designated "RECAPS" from other output you may receive. NSCC will no longer accept or distribute RECAP tapes.
RECAPS INELIGIBLE PRODUCT CUSIP FILE:
As in past cycles, NSCC will continue to edit for Foreign Securities, Government Securities, Mutual Funds, & Reorgs. These securities will be rejected upon submission on RECAPS Friday or As-Ofs the following Monday to the extent they are on NSCC’s file of ineligible securities. Reject codes will appear in the Registered/Bearer field of the REJECTED TRADES area of participants’ RECAPS Contracts with the following codes and descriptions:
"M" – Mutual Fund-------------------------------"Ineligible M/F Security"
"F" – Foreign Security----------------------------"Ineligible Foreign Security"
"G" – Government Security----------------------"Ineligible Govt Security"
"R" – REORG-------------------------------------"Ineligible REORG Security"
The reject descriptions above will not appear at the far right if another reject error is found upon submission. If submission of an ineligible security is the only reason for the reject, the above reject messages will appear. Participants should attempt to edit their fail files of these securities to the extent this is possible prior to fail submission on Friday.
Any questions regarding this Important Notice can be directed to NSCC Participant Services in New York at (212)412-8432, or Victor Rosado at (212) 412-8596.
Victor Rosado
Operations Analyst