Corporate actions

Corporate actions are events or decisions made by a company that affect its shareholders, bondholders, or other stakeholders. These actions can have financial implications, such as changes in stock prices, dividends, or bond values. Corporate actions are voluntary or mandatory, and they typically require shareholder approval or notification.

The Investment API facilitates end-to-end processing of the entire corporate action (CA) lifecycle, including pre-notification, processing, reporting and cash and securities settlement of corporate actions.

The core idea of our solution consists of:

• Full visibility of upcoming corporate action events
  Upvest relies on multiple providers for notification of upcoming corporate actions. As a result, our clients are always in the loop about upcoming corporate actions for the activated instrument universe.

• Automated and digital processing of corporate actions
  All mandatory corporate action events are fully automated and processed via our core banking system and can be embedded in real time via API. Our clients thus benefit from immediate end-user feedback in the user experience.

With this guide, we want to empower you to implement corporate actions via Upvest in a scalable way. You will gain clarity about the processing of corporate actions, the interfaces and the most important implications.

Let's get started! If you want to get some background knowledge about corporate actions, we recommend that you first familiarise yourself with the corporate action lifecycle and the different corporate action types.