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Global Corporate Actions
Imagine handling corporate action announcements in an automated and seamless environment, eliminating costly manual processing and reducing the risk of errors that exists today.
The Global Reach of GCA
From Monday morning in Asia to Friday evening in the United States, whenever and wherever markets are open, we have continuous corporate action information for our clients.
DTCC's Global Corporate Action Validation Service staff speak the following languages: English, Bahasa (Indonesia), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Gujarati (India), Lithuanian and Portuguese.
Last year, the GCA Validation Service processed corporate actions from more than 160 countries.
Global Corporate Action Validation Service
DTCC's Global Corporate Action Validation Service (GCA VS) helps improve operational efficiency and lowers risk, while providing greater processing accuracy and resiliency.GCA Browser Service
The GCA Browser is a separate, standalone service that offers an online connection to the Global Corporate Actions (GCA) Validation Service data base -- a centralized source of "scrubbed" corporate action announcement information on two million global securities from over 160 countries.GCA @Source
DTCC's GCA @Source for Reference and Event Data is a comprehensive Web application that provides quick and easy browser access to security data collected and maintained for the over two million securities eligible for processing by DTCC's depository subsidiary,The Depository Trust Company (DTC).Oxera White Papers
Even routine corporate actions can have a significant impact on trading prices, trading volume and trade price volatility, according to a report by Oxera, an independent economics consultancy in Europe. (May 2006)
A prior DTCC and Oxera study quantifying the potential risk of corporate actions was issued to raise awareness in the securities industry that corporate actions do involve significant potential risks and costs, affecting the front office as well as the back office. (May 2004)
Who's Using the GCA Validation Service?
The GCA Validation Service is open to all financial institutions - broker/dealers, banks investment managers, insurance companies, hedge funds and any firm that tracks corporate action information and its impact on securities positions.
GCA Newsletter, DTCC's Global Corporate Actions Update
GCA Newsletter, DTCC's Global Corporate Actions Update, is a periodic email newsletter about global corporate actions from The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the leading source of corporate actions announcements in the world.
The GCA Newsletter keeps our customers, vendor partners and other market participants appraised of key developments within DTCC and the industry that impact global corporate action announcements.