What are Optional Payments in the Corporate Actions API?

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In the Global Corporate Actions API we offer a GetDistributions and GetDistributionsByExchange endoints. In certain distribution events you might see multiple records for the same event. This is caused when the issuer announces more than one payment option for a shareholder. For example, shareholders may be able to elect to receive a dividend in one currency or another.

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What is CompositeIdentifier in the corporate actions API?

The GlobalCorporateActions API includes CompositeIdentifier, a customer QUODD input parameter that allows users to pinpoint a single even record down to the instrument level.

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Corporate Actions

Why are there multiple Takeover, Spinoff, and Merger events in the QUODD corporate actions API?

There are multiple Takeover, Spinoff, and Merger events in the QUODD corporate actions API when an issuer announces more than one payment option for shareholders.

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FAQs

Corporate Actions

What are Dissenters' Rights in the Corporate Actions API?

Dissenters' Rights are defined as a possible payout option for a shareholder in which the shareholder may elect to be paid out in the ‘fair value’ of the currently held shares.

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