Mandatory use of the forms for the admission of physically deposited securities to collective safe custody

04.04.2016

Effective

16 May 2016

Clearstream Banking AG1 will only accept requests from customers acting as issuing agents for admission of securities in form of global notes directly deposited for collective safe custody if the forms provided by CBF are used for this. The special contractual agreements will continue to apply to Electronic Documentation Transmission (EDT) services.

This standardisation ensures a continued efficient and timely processing of these applications even after the TARGET2-Securities (T2S) migration of CBF as the German securities depository scheduled for February 2017.

The corresponding application forms for the different types of instruments as well as own and third-party issues are available at Issuance Documentation. The forms are provided with interactive, i.e. electronically writable text boxes that allow easy processing and individual additions to be made as free-format text.

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1. This Announcement is published by Clearstream Banking AG (CBF), registered office at Mergenthalerallee 61, 65760 Eschborn, Germany, registered with the Commercial Register of the District Court in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, under number HRB-7500.