ISO 20022 · Corporate action event type
PARIPari Passu
Published definition
Occurs when securities with different characteristics, for example, shares with different entitlements to dividend or voting rights, become identical in all respects, for example, pari-passu or assimilation. May be scheduled in advance, for example, shares resulting from a bonus may become fungible after a pre-set period of time, or may result from outside events, for example, merger, reorganisation, issue of supplementary tranches.
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.