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P&S #:

5286

DATE:

November 11, 2003

TO:

ALL PARTICIPANTS

ATTENTION:

Managing Partner/Officer; P&S Manager; Cashier Manager; Data Processing Manager; Fund/SERV Participants

FROM:

ENTERPRISE SERVICE CENTER
SUBJECT: RECAPS - December 2003

The next cycle of NSCC’s Reconfirmation and Repricing Service (RECAPS) is scheduled for the week of December 2, 2003.

The RECAPS application is now available on PC Web Direct for all member firms.  Keypunching will no longer be provided for RECAPS.  If assistance is required with processing RECAPS on PC Web Direct, participants are encouraged to contact the NSCC Participant Services Group @ (212) 855-4155 or their Account Managers.

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 November 25, 2003 or earlier.

The following are the processing time frames for automated input.   

Tuesday, Dec. 2nd

Participants must submit their CUSIP files for Friday’s anticipated fail input by 5:00 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 5th     

Participants must submit their fail input no late than 2:00 a.m. Saturday morning.

Sunday, Dec. 7th

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, Dec. 8th

Supplementary input (Advisories, As-Of's, DK's, Rejects) must be submitted no later than 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 9th

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, December 9, 2003.

To minimize rerun requests, please be on the lookout for output specifically designated “RECAPS” from other output you may receive.  NSCC will no longer accept or distribute RECAP hardcopy reports.

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 at

(212) 855-4155, or at (212) 855-5708.

.

Louis Recco
Manager
Enterprise Service Center