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Standardize mandatory redemption announcements with streamlined submissions, real-time validation, and clearer visibility across the corporate actions lifecycle.
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AnnounceDirect

Reduce Friction Across Workflows

Corporate action announcements often depend on manual data entry, spreadsheets and email-based exchanges that can create inconsistent information, additional follow-up and delays in managing time-sensitive events. AnnounceDirect is DTCC’s modernized platform for sourcing, validating and publishing announcement data closer to its origin. Through a standardized portal workflow, agents can submit information using consistent templates and receive real-time systemic validations designed to identify missing or inconsistent data before an announcement moves downstream.  

By reducing reliance on fragmented emails and manual handoffs, AnnounceDirect helps shorten processing lead times, improve data quality and transparency, and distribute more timely, standardized information to market participants. The platform also establishes a foundation for broader automation through modern web, file-upload, messaging and API capabilities, supporting DTCC’s strategy to digitize the securities lifecycle and process corporate action information once for more consistent downstream use. 

Key Features & Benefits

Standardize Data at Entry

Agents use structured templates to capture redemption announcement data consistently before it moves to the next stage of processing.

Validate Information Earlier

Real-time systemic validations help agents identify data issues at the point of entry and reduce rework.

Manage Events with More Control

Integrated work queues help agents create, modify, cancel and monitor exceptions across in-scope events.

Centralize Communication with DTC

Platform capabilities give agents a clearer communication trail with DTC for supported announcement activity.

Build Toward Straight-Through Processing

The platform creates a foundation for future API and ISO messaging support as corporate actions processing evolves.
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AnnounceDirect To Launch Q4 2026*

A new, standardized approach for submitting Corporate Action redemption announcements. At go-live*, AnnounceDirect will support the following mandatory redemption event types: Full calls, Partial calls, Final paydowns, Default final payments and Full pre-refundings

Agents will submit these events using a standard process through AnnounceDirect and the new Redemption Cash Events Template.

Starting November 6, 2026, all agents must use the new Redemption Cash Events Template (.xlsx) for bulk announcement submissions through AnnounceDirect. The new template replaces the REDCAL Lite – Debt and REDCAL Lite – Equity templates.

The new template combines the two existing REDCAL Lite templates into one file. This makes redemption cash event submissions simpler and more consistent. The template and Agent Reference Guide are available in the Essentials column on the right.

Agents are encouraged to begin using the new template on November 6, 2026. However, DTC will continue to accept the REDCAL Lite – Debt and REDCAL Lite – Equity templates until July 1, 2027, to give firms time to transition.

*Subject to regulatory approvals.

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