178: Sensitivity element does not carry enough information

Sensitivities are reported in sensitivity sets as follows: 119 120 This meets the Pricing and Risk group’s requirements of display the sensitivity in graphs, but is insufficient for processing – the name attribute needs microparsing and its content is unconstrained.

176: Duplication of stub first period start date issue

The start date of an initial stub can be identified in two separate places 1) swapstream.stubCalculationPeriodAmount.initalStub 2) swapstream.calculationPeriodDates.firstPeriodStartDate This is an issue because both fields identify the same information and they can conflict with each other. If this is the case, please advise me which element to use and what is the purpose of both … Continued

175: Two readme in the release

In the FpML 4.2 TR 8th May 2006 there are two Readme files in the xml directory of the downloadable zip. “Readme” is for the LCWD release “Readme.txt” is for the TR release Correct behaviour is for all files to have the “.txt” file name extension. Correct behaviour is for only the one readme to … Continued

173: Request additional Business Center, DEDU – Dsseldorf

DTCC DerivSERV clients have expressed the need for an additional Business Center value representing Dsseldorf, Germany. Currently, “DEFR – Frankfurt” is the only German location. The proposal is to add a new scheme value of “DEDU – Dsseldorf” to the current Business Center scheme, http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/business-center, in the next release of FpML 4.2. Regards, Henri Pegeron: … Continued

172: Trades within a bank

Where an entity trades with itself – what is the sequence of messages to issue? Does the booking entity issue one trade message or two in the FpML Trade Sequence?

170: Depository needed for settlement instructions

Please add the depository to the settlement instructions as a reference to a Party. An example with fx_ex09_euro_opt.xml: CHASUS33 ABNANL2A CHASUS33 CHASE ABNANL2A ABN Amro KSDCKRSE Korea Securities Depository