News archive for 2023

As described on our preliminary lump sum webpage, the preliminary lump sums in 2024, calculated for the year 2023, will be delivered on several dates.

WM Datenservice notified on the following dates:

• 11.01.2024
• 12.01.2024
• 17.01.2024

If the preliminary lump sum cannot be determined, the data record will be marked as such and provided in the last delivery as per 17.01.2024. Corrections will be provided accordingly as part of the monthly correction runs from February 2024.

Further information from WM Datenservice:

• Special information F26 from 31.10.2023

Note:

Please note that all customer and special information from WM Datenservice are password protected since 16.04.2012. If you do not have your login data available or not known, please contact WM Datenservice via E-Mail.

Over the next six weeks, until around mid-January 2024, Update 29.12.2023: On the weekend of January 6th to 7th, 2024, we will be making important technological updates at WMACCESS.com. These changes affect our web- and application-servers, the technological foundation of our WMACCESS online offerings.

For you as a user of our WMACCESS application and services, this means one thing above all: improved performance without you noticing! There are no visual or functional changes you need to be aware of. Behind the scenes, we have worked hard to make your experience with WMACCESS even better.

One of these improvements is the use of HTTP/2, which has already contributed to faster and more efficient interaction with our web server. In addition, the introduction of HTTP/3 is imminent. This advanced technology will be available in the near future and offers further improvements in terms of speed and efficiency for your online experience with WMACCESS.

Moreover, we will be making some minor technical adjustments. An example of this is changing the WMACCESS session cookie name to __Host-SESSIONID. We also want to emphasize that there will continue to be no annoying cookie banner at WMACCESS. This is because we do not perform tracking and use only technically necessary session cookies. Our users can rely on their privacy being protected and their online experience remaining undisturbed.

These updates lay the groundwork for expanding our individual services and introducing new WMACCESS releases in the coming year. We look forward to offering you an even better experience, and thank you for your trust in WMACCESS.

These days we are sending out a notice, either by post or email, to our valued WMACCESS Internet customers about the upcoming price adjustment.

After leaving the prices unchanged for more than 13 years, the current development in connection with the cost increases in the last 13 years now unfortunately leaves us no other choice but to increase the prices moderately as of 01.01.2024 and to adjust them progressively to the market requirements over the next years.

At the same time as this news, we have updated our website. Under the heading "Prices & Contract" you will find both the prices up to and including 31.12.2023 and the new prices from 01.01.2024.

You will receive further information in the written notification we will send you in the next few days.

On October 23, 2023 the 102. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.

WM Datenservice will introduce a new data product simultaneously with the 102nd WM Release. The WM product is called ABZ / Withholding Tax and contains data fields for the extended electronic reporting obligations of those obliged to deduct capital gains tax. CPB Software (Germany) GmbH will license the new ABZ / Withholding Tax product from WM Datenservice for WMACCESS via the internet. Currently, it is planned that the new data fields from areas (E) Income Data and (G) Master Data will be integrated into the respective wmView query profiles.
For further information on the new WM product, please refer to the WM customer or special information provided below.

New fields in query profile Income data (E)

• ED008P Identification of cash flows by issuers according to Article 3 of the Act to Combat Tax Avoidance and Unfair Tax Competition (StAbwG)
• ED279E Qualified Notice (QN)
• ED509A Reporting to the US Internal Revenue Service
• ED651 Identification of investment income within the meaning of Section 43 paragraph. 1 sentence 1 No. 1a or No. 2 sentence 4 EStG in the context of the transmission of certification data pursuant to Section 45b paragraphs 4 and 5 EStG

New fields in the query profile Securities master data (G)

• GD1K9 Instruments pursuant to Section 43 paragraph 1 sentence 1 No. 1a or No. 2 sentence 4 EStG in the context of the transmission of the certification data pursuant to Section 45b paragraphs 4 and 5 EStG
• GD1L1 Depositary of the domestic (German) shares deposited by the issuer of the depositary receipt
• GD279E Qualified Notice (QN)
• GD427B Depositary receipts and underlying securities ratio - number of depositary receipts
• GD427C Depositary receipts and underlying securities ratio - number of underlying securities
• GD509A Reporting to the US Internal Revenue Service
• GV1K8 Instruments according to Article 3 of the Act to Combat Tax Avoidance and Unfair Tax Competition (StAbwG)
• GV1L2 Number of depositary receipts issued including shares issued at the time of the profit distribution resolution
• GV1L3 Confirmation of the issuer of the depositary receipt in accordance with Section 45b (3) 4 of the Investment Tax Act (EStG)
• GV2A7* Article 26-Transaction Reporting according to MiFIR (2)
• GV2A8* Article 26-Transaction Reporting according to MiFIR (3)
• GV874 Spanish Tax Identification Number NIF

The WM fields marked with * are also provided in the query profile MiFID II - Reference Data.

New field in the query profile Issuer data (M)

• MD662A Spanish Tax Identification Number NIF

New field in the query profile Investment Fund Characteristics

• GV278 Special Infrastructure Fund - return periods - minimum holding periods

New fields in the query profile MiFID II - Reference data

• GV2A7* Article 26-Transaction Reporting according to MiFIR (2)
• GV2A8* Article 26-Transaction Reporting according to MiFIR (3)
• GV2A9 Post-trade-relevance-MiFIR (2)
• GV3A1 Post-trade-relevance-MiFIR (3)
• GV3A2 Pre-trade-relevance-MiFIR (2)
• GV3A4 Pre-trade-relevance-MiFIR (3)

The WM fields marked with * are also provided in the query profile Master Data (G).

Frozen fields

On October 23, 2023 the following data fields will be frozen:

• VD041A Tax Rate
• VD041B Currency/Unit/Token re Tax Rate
• VD041C Tax Rate in %
• VD041D Date relevant to taxation

The mentioned fields will remain included in the respective detail display, in grayed out form. Frozen WM fields will no longer be updated and will not be provided by WM Datenservice for newly issued or newly added securities in the WM database.

Further information from WM Datenservice:

• Customer information K12a from 04.08.2023
  102nd Release Effective Monday, 23 October 2023
• Customer information K14 from 10.08.2023
  Withholding tax - ABZ New product for the extended electronic reporting obligations of those obliged to deduct capital gains tax
• Special information F17 from 14.08.2023
  WM data on the Act to modernize the relief from withholding tax and the certification of capital gains tax (AbzStEntModG)
• Special information F18 from 14.08.2023
  WM data on the Act to Combat Tax Avoidance and Unfair Tax Competition (StAbwG)
• Special information F20 from 14.08.2023
  WM data on the Spanish tax identification number NIF (Número de Identificación Fiscal)
• Special information F21 from 22.08.2023
  Special infrastructure funds - representation of redemption and minimum holding periods
• Special information F22 from 13.09.2023
  WM data for reporting to the U.S. tax authorities (Internal Revenue Service) and for the so-called "Qualified Notice" (QN)

Note:

Please note that all customer and special information from WM Datenservice are password protected since 16.04.2012. If you do not have your login data available or not known, please contact WM Datenservice via E-Mail.

We are pleased to announce our ongoing support for the open source community. This year, our focus has been on modern command line tools that are essential for productivity, automation and smooth operations.

Visit our GitHub page to learn more about our open source initiatives. The specific information about our campaign this year can be found at Open-Source-Support-2023.

Finally, we would once again like to express our sincere gratitude to the entire open source community.

In the past, search queries in wmView or wmProfile with incomplete or incorrect search criteria could lead to enormously large hit lists that were difficult to manage with several million hits.

Therefore, we have introduced a new function that offers an optimal balance between extensive information search and efficient user experience. From now on, a notification will be displayed for searches that generate more than 5 million hits:

This notification informs you that the search has produced a huge number of results and suggests refining the search criteria to get a manageable number of results. This avoids the charging of the hit list fee.

In this context, we have also optimised and upgraded the previous feedback system for information, warnings and error messages in wmView by using sweetalert2.

On June 26, 2023 the 101. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.

New fields

No data fields will be added with this WM Release.

Frozen fields

No data fields will be frozen with this WM Release.

Further information from WM Datenservice:

• Customer information K10 from April 5, 2023

Note:

Please note that all customer and special information from WM Datenservice are password protected since 16.04.2012. If you do not have your login data available or not known, please contact WM Datenservice via E-Mail.

Thanks to the ability to search in five query profiles simultaneously, the Corporate Actions query profile is one of the most used profiles in WMACCESS Internet.

Last year we had already introduced the new search functionality Exclusion of cancelled events and carried out an expansion of the search criteria, integrating numerous additional WM date fields in the process.

Now, there is another new functionality that allows users to select events without dates. This is made possible by the checkbox Include events without date in the search mask and is activated by default. To search for corporate actions without dates, another search criterion such as an ISIN, WKN or position group is required in addition to the period specification.

If this search function is activated, corporate actions that do not (yet) contain any date information are also taken into account and displayed in the hit list. Events, such as conversion data for insolvency proceedings or information on class actions, which usually do not contain dates, can also be viewed in the Corporate Actions query profile thanks to this new functionality.

Improved printout of detail displays

The printout of more extensive wmView detail displays is now more compact and no longer contains unnecessary page breaks. This optimisation obviously also includes the common print option "Save as PDF" in modern browsers.

In our News from 28.02.2023, we informed about the suspension of the intraday master and corporate actions deliveries within the scope of the "uGAT" product discontinuation as of 07.04.2023.

Until then, the uGAT product will deliver all new financial instruments added to the database, each working day according to the WM update times, with a restricted static data profile and corporate actions with various restrictions, such as, no interest payments in the income data.

In recent weeks, we have evaluated an alternative solution from WM Daten­service, which is basically the same intraday GAT set-up as was planned for EDDy_neu under the then go-live date of Easter 2023:
The previous uGAT restrictions will no longer apply, because GAT, with all information available at that time, will then be provided to us five times intraday by WM Datenservice from the "EDDy-Prod" system.

From 11 April 2023 onwards, securities master data / issuer data and corporate actions (including existing data) will be updated five times during the day between 07:00 AM and 08:30 PM.
However, this intraday update or provision does not apply to all master data and corporate actions fields. Some WM fields are not provided in the GAT, but in the WM products IFK, MIR, MIR2, PRI, EBV, IST, AIF, or A+R 1 once in the evening by WM Datenservice and updated in WMACCESS.

The WMACCESS field history will continue to be supplied only in the late evening from the evening delivery of the master data and corporate actions.

On April 11, 2023 the 100. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.

New fields

No data fields will be added with this WM Release.

Frozen fields

No data fields will be frozen with this WM Release.

Suspension of intraday Master data and Corporate Actions (uGAT) as of 07.04.2023

As already stated on our EDDy_neu project page page, the product "uGAT" was to be discontinued at the same time as the EDDy_neu go-live date on 07.04.2023 and replaced at the same time by an upgraded, fully comprehensive GAT (master data and corporate actions) product provided five times per day.

On 02.02.2023 WM Datenservice announced that the go-live date of EDDy_neu will be postponed. Further information on the rescheduling of the project schedule is expected to be published at the beginning of Q2/2023.
On 16 February 2023 WM Datenservice informed us that despite the postponement of the go-live of EDDy_neu, the product "uGAT" will be discontinued as of 07.04.2023.

We are currently in contact with WM Datenservice to evaluate possible alternatives or to achieve a continuation of the uGAT product.

Further information from WM Datenservice:

• Customer information K05 from January 27, 2023
  100th Release effective Tuesday, 11 April 2023
• Customer information K06 from February 02, 2023
  Postponement of GoLive Projekt EDDy_neu
• Customer information K07 from February 20, 2023
  100th Release - Technical information

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Please note that all customer and special information from WM Datenservice are password protected since 16.04.2012. If you do not have your login data available or not known, please contact WM Datenservice via E-Mail.

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