362: Coding Scheme for Seniorities needs extending

The current definitions for the Bond seniority in FpML Coding Scheme allow for the following values: Senior Top precedence. SubTier1 Subordinate Tier 1 SubUpperTier2 Subordinate, Upper Tier 2. SubLowerTier2 Subordinate, Lower Tier 2. SubTier3 Subordinate, Tier 3. But the Senior level is always refered to as either Secured or Unsecured, and it is common practice … Continued

360: Discrepency with cashflowType and cashFlowType in messages

There is currently what appears to be a typo in the existing elements used to describe cashflowType. In GrossCashflow it is defined as: Defines the type of cash flow. For instance, a type of fee, premium, principal exchange, leg fee. In Observation elements (which uses the Quotation.model from valuation-base) it is defined as: For cash … Continued

359: What does PaymentCurrency href point at?

Add an eCore reference for the PaymentCurrency IDREF: A type describing the currency in which the payment relating to the leg amount (equity amount or interest amount) or the dividend will be denominated. The currency in which an amount is denominated. Specifies the method according to which an amount or a date is determined.

358: Remove uses of DateReference and replace with a direct link

Remove all uses of DateReference and replace with a direct link. Each direct link should have an eCore annotation. Remove: Reference to an identified date or a complex date structure. The 5 uses to change to direct references are below (with their file name and line number) fpml-eq-shared.xsd(1115): fpml-shared.xsd(720): fpml-shared.xsd(725): fpml-shared.xsd(1901): fpml-shared.xsd(1936):

356: Define Messaging Quality of Service

The messaging quality of service requires definition. At the moment there is a lack of consensus and this is affecting the business process definition adversely. 1. Is the transmission and receipt of messages unordered or ordered? If ordered is it totally ordered, causally ordered, totally or causally ordered within a conversation? How do you order … Continued

355: Lucio’s questions

Marie, I have some questions after reading the Service Description V5 doc. Apologies if prior discussions have already addressed them. In the ContractCreated notification, is the convention to use as the equivalent of a trade date, i.e. as “the date on which the parties agreed to the terms of the contract event”? I have found … Continued

354: Users mailing list

Please add a users mailing list. This is traditional or at least received wisdom on an open source project as a way for newbies to ask questions without having to join a working group. Add a users@fpml.org mailing list * Make it self-subscribe/self-unsubscribe * Make clear it is a users mailing list for questions that … Continued

353: Trade version clashes

When a trade changes there is a new trade version. The same occurs for a contract. How do we prevent two different systems both processing a change and either creating different version numbers for the same change, or having the same version number for different changes?