IFS: FIX allocation on Vestima orders will allow Maximum Fraction Digits = 6 - Update

22.02.2024

Note: This announcement, originally published on 5 February 2024, has been updated to change the effective from 24 June 2024 to 10 June 2024. Changes have been highlighted.

Clearstream Banking1 informs clients that effective

10 June 2024

clients using FIX connection, confirmation and confirmation replacement messages that are currently formatted as below:

  • Minimum Fraction Digits = 5
  • Maximum Fraction Digits = 5

Will be formatted as:

  • Minimum Fraction Digits = 5
  • Maximum Fraction Digits = 5 => 6

That is, the numbers will be formatted as below:

Information received by Clearstream Banking from market participant

Information provided by Clearstream Banking on FIX confirmation and confirmation replacement

345.01

345.01000

345.1234567

345.123457

The impact will only be on confirmations and covers the following fields:

Quality

32

Quantity

14 

Total Quantity

Price / Rate / Amount

12

Commission

6

Average Price

44

Price per Share

31

Last Price

119

Settlement Currency Amount

155

Settlement Rate

381

Gross Trade Amount

Further information

For further information, clients should contact as appropriate:

Clearstream Banking
Vestima Client Services

Email:

csvestima@clearstream.com

Telephone:

+352-243-32833

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1. Clearstream Banking refers collectively to Clearstream Banking S.A., registered office at 42, avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register under number B-9248, and Clearstream Banking AG (for Clearstream Banking AG clients using Creation Accounts), registered office at 61, Mergenthalerallee, 65760 Eschborn, Germany and registered in Register B of the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany under number HRB 7500.