ISO 20022 · Corporate action event type
DVOPDividend Option
Published definition
Distribution of a dividend to shareholders with a choice of benefit to receive. Shareholders may choose to receive shares or cash. To be distinguished from DRIP as the company creates new share capital in exchange for the dividend rather than investing the dividend in the market.
Code set and usage
Corporate action event type contains 67 registered codes. Its exact identifier is ExternalCorporateActionEventType1Code.
Specifies the corporate action event type, as published in an external corporate action event type code set. External code sets can be downloaded from www.iso20022.org.
Use the code with the applicable message version and implementation guide. A matching code value alone does not establish the same meaning in another set.