New features released in February included; the ability to customise holding/periodic statement titles and communications to investors, a new Transaction report with summary, bulk-sending of capital call payment instruction reminders, and the ability to display more information about a security to investors in the Investor centre.
We also released many smaller improvements and bugfixes which are detailed below.
Reports
- Introduced a new Transaction report to the Issuer centre reports section, listing unit movements and providing a transaction summary. This report can be produced in PDF and XLSX formats.
Capital calls
- Issuers can now send bulk payment instruction reminder emails to investors. This is done from the Capital call detail page, via the Actions menu on the Investors table.
Holding statements
- In the Issuer and Client centres:
- Issuers can now enter custom text and add attachments to the communication which is sent to investors with the holding statement.
- Issuers can now enter a custom title for holding statements. The custom title replaces ‘Holding/Periodic statement’ in the statement, communications to investors, and filenames.
- Fixed a bug which caused investors’ communication preferences for receiving holding statements by post to not be respected.
Security certificates
- For certificated securities, issuers can now enter a custom title for the certificate in the Edit security screen. The custom title will be used in the certificate, filename, and wherever the certificate is referred to in the Investor centre.
Investor Centre
- Issuers can now choose to display more information about a security in the holding row of the Investor centre Holdings page:
- Key metrics.
- A link to the Issuer website.
These can be entered in the Edit security page.
- On the Holdings page, a tooltip has been added to the greyed-out value cell of excluded securities to explain that the security is excluded from the Total Value calculation.
- Fixed a display bug on mobile phones which made it possible for the Multi-Factor Authentication modal to be scrolled out of view when updating holding details.
- Fixed a bug in the Holder details Tax details tab that caused links to the holder contacts to not work.
- Fixed a bug that occurred in cases where the tax declaration was previously submitted by an issuer user, eg. during an import. The submission statement used ‘Issuer user’ in the tax declaration submission statement and has now been fixed to use the current investor username.
All issuers table
- A NAV date column has been added to the Client centre All issuers table, which displays the oldest NAV date entered for securities in that issuer, excluding expired and fixed-price securities.
- The Client centre All issuers table can now be exported to a CSV file.
General
- Some UI updates have been made for ease of navigation:
- The header and side menu are now fixed in place to always be visible. The side menu and submenu now scroll vertically when there is not enough space to show all menu items.
- ‘Issuer centre’ or ‘Client centre’ are now displayed in the header, to help users navigate between centres.
- Fixed a bug in Safari browser with the attachment upload button which caused the attachment to not be displayed after being selected.
- Fixed a bug encountered when viewing the Issuer or Client centre on mobile, in some cases the menu was not displaying properly.
Offers and applications
- Offers copied from the previous version of the offer feature are now updated to the current version of the offer feature.
- In the application form, instructions for entering names of companies that can’t be fetched using their ABN have been made clearer.
- When a draft application is deleted from the Investor or Issuer centre, an activity log is now created.
- The due diligence options selected in the offer set up are now included in the offer transcript PDF.
- On the application details page the PEP status of an applicant will now be ‘Not determined’ until set by the issuer, even if the applicant self-declares their PEP status.
- When an offer is in Expression of Interest state, the Offer details page now defaults to the Marketing list tab.
- The status wording for applicants who have data room access has been changed from ‘Registered’ to ‘Granted’.
- Fixed a bug where if an applicant applied as an adviser and attached an ‘Authority to act’ document, the uploaded document was not being displayed in the Application details Submitted details tab.
Holders
- For CHESS sponsored holdings, the name and address now come from the first non-nil subregister. If there are no non-nil subregisters then it reverts to the first (nil) subregister.
Tax declarations
- When filling in a tax declaration, we now allow holders to not be a tax resident of any country, as long as a reason is supplied.
- In the investor tax declaration form, the tax types that can be selected are more tightly limited by the type of entity the declaration is for.
Transactions
- Fixed a bug which in some cases caused the security balance to not be recalculated after a transaction was deleted.
Payments
- On the Payment details screen, cash component amounts are now displayed to two decimal places only. The full decimal precision is still used for calculations.
Contacts
- Fixed a bug in the Contacts list Individuals and Companies tabs which caused sorting by ID to not work.