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We have updated our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) to address many questions about the new law (Growth Opportunities Act) for e-invoices starting in 2025 and its impact on WMACCESS invoices.

WM Datenservice has recently published important information about the Fontus project (formerly EDDy_neu). We would like to draw your attention to these updates and inform you about their impact on WMACCESS.

Recapitulation

On February 2, 2023, WM Datenservice provided information through EDDy_neu Information I057 about the postponement of the EDDy_neu Go-live date. Since February 2024, the Fontus project has replaced the EDDy_neu project. The EDDy Information Center (EIC) has transitioned to the Information Center Fontus (ICF), which will in turn be replaced by the "Fontus Service Desk" during January 2025.

The existing D20 specification for data structure adjustments EDDy_neu continues to be valid. The current schedule from WM Datenservice anticipates the Go-Live of Fontus for September 2026.

Partial Bringing Forward of the D20 Specification

In December 2024, WM Datenservice announced that many of the new WM fields from the D20 specification could be brought forward. However, since not all D20 fields can be brought forward, there will still be technical and professional changes with the Fontus Go-Live.

We highly welcome this measure and recommend that you consider, familiarize, and use the brought forward D20 fields in WMACCESS, to test and validate your process adjustments for EDDy_neu, now Fontus, in advance.
Many of these WM fields will replace long-standing WM fields at the Go-Live date, which will then be frozen. Until then, WMACCESS users and other market participants have the opportunity to make the most of this parallel provision. This approach is comparable to the introduction of the GD198 fields, when GD190 and GD195 were replaced and provided in parallel over a transition period of five years, although the current transition period is significantly shorter.
 

Timeframe for the Provision of WM Fields from D20

WM Datenservice plans to provide the brought forward WM fields from the D20 specification as separate products by the end of April 2025, at the latest by the 107th WM Release on June 23, 2025. The use of these separate products with these WM fields is optional for market participants. Naturally, all fields and adjustments from the D20 specification will become mandatory with the Go-Live of Fontus.

The integration of the separate products with the brought forward WM fields into WMACCESS is planned for the time of the first provision by WM Datenservice.

WMACCESS Adjustments Due to the Partial Bringing Forward of the D20 Specification

The bringing forward of the D20 specification impacts the user interface of WMACCESS. Many of the WMACCESS adjustments that were announced and described on our EDDy_neu project page for the EDDy_neu or Fontus era have been backported into the current WMACCESS release in recent weeks. These improvements include:

• The widening of the wmView standard window width by approximately 300 pixels, which immediately makes an additional information column visible in search results lists, previously accessible only via the toggle function, along with further benefits for usability and clarity.
• An improved sorting of search results lists for many query profiles, now based on WM fields and thus on professional criteria, instead of the ordering term consisting of ISIN/WKN, SKZ, and BID.
• Adjustments to the "Corporate Actions" query profile, enabling parallel support for UD016 (a time range field consisting of two dates) and the brought forward fields UD016A and UD016B.

These improvements are currently in the testing phase. In a separate, future news, we will describe these WMACCESS adjustments in more detail before they are made fully available.

Note

We plan to keep the existing EDDy_neu project page unchanged for the time being and continue to provide it with the information as of February 2023. Simultaneously, we are preparing a new project page for Fontus. Please be aware that the completion of the new project page will take some time. Furthermore, several details that were once available for the EDDy_neu project have not yet been published for Fontus, which may further delay the completion of our new project page.

Further Information from WM Datenservice:

• Information Center Fontus (ICF)

On February 24, 2025 the 106. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.

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

• GD504Y ESG Bond
• GV3A5 Distribution Licence / Public Offering (3)
• GV3A6 Belgian Asset Test (BAT)

New fields in the query profile Investment Funds Prices (I)

• ID940 Evaluation Price for Exchange Traded Commodities

New field in the query profile Stock Exchange Eligibilities (X)

• XD028A Representation of Listing Data (only in the dummy WKN 969980)

New fields in the query profile Investment Fund Characteristics

• GV1G1 Information on Funds with Irregular Redemption Dates and Deadlines
• GV1G2 Information on Funds with Irregular Purchase Dates and Deadlines

Frozen fields

On February 24, 2025, the following data fields will be frozen by WM Datenservice:

• UD039 Rights Quotation
• UV039Z Deviating Rights Quotation

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.

🚨 Important Notice for the 107th Release 🚨

WM Datenservice plans the discontinuation of the data feed for the "P" (Opposition) work area as part of the 107th WM Release on June 23, 2025.
Originally, the discontinuation was already planned within the EDDy_neu project for Easter 2023.
Should you require the Opposition list in the future as a PDF file or a machine-readable CSV file, please contact WM Datenservice directly.

Further information from WM Datenservice:

• Customer information K21a from 09.12.2024
  106th Release Effective Monday, 24 February 2025
• Special information F32 from 12.12.2024
  WM data on ESG bonds
• Special information F33 from 16.12.2024
  Changeover of NACE to version 2.1

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.

In 2024, we are once again continuing our commitment to the open-source community. This year, we have provided financial support to five key open-source projects that are essential for the reliable operation and efficient monitoring of WMACCESS.

For more details about our open-source initiatives, please visit our GitHub page. An overview of the supported projects can be found under Open-Source-Support-2024.

Finally, we would like to extend our sincere thanks to the entire open-source community – for their tireless innovation and invaluable contributions to technological advancement.

In the detail views of wmView and wmProfile, the display of frozen WM fields has been enhanced with the addition of a red warning symbol, as shown in the example of WM field GD970I.

The tooltip has been expanded and now directly explains the specific characteristics of frozen WM fields within WMACCESS.

Frozen WM fields can be of particular interest, especially when analyzing older securities or corporate event data, such as income data, due to previous regulatory conditions.

On October 21, 2024 the 105. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.

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

• GD279F Original Issue Discount (OID) relevance identifier
• GV1P7 Legal form of presentation for securities under german law
• GV1P9 Information on securities registrars

Frozen fields

On October 21, 2024, the following data fields, including the entire section B / Coupon Renewals, will be frozen by WM Datenservice:

• GD970I Article 129 CRR identifier
• QD017 Price currency/unit/token
• QD018 Price identifier
• QD020 Discount identifier
• QV103 ISIN/WKN valid until
• BD001 Coupon renewal status
• BD002 Quality review status
• BD002A Content status
• BD003 Coupon renewal type
• BD004 From - to dates
• BD005 First coupon date
• BD006 Last coupon date
• BD007 New coupon sheet features
• BD008 New coupon sheet particularities
• BD010 Deposited securities list
• BD011 Coupon (to be presented)
• BD012 Collective custody date
• BD013 First coupon number
• BD014 Last coupon number
• BD015 Coupon to be presented (number)
• BD016 Deliverability
• BD017 New deliverability
• BD078 Presentation
• BD079 Physical evidence
• BD993 Main issuing agents
• BD994 Issuing agents
• BD998 General text

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 K13 from 07.08.2024
  105th Release Effective Monday, 21 October 2024

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.

This coming weekend (Saturday, 10th August and Sunday, 11th August 2024), a crucial test of the autonomous failover functionality will be conducted for our website www.wmaccess.com and the WMACCESS applications. This is part of our comprehensive Uptime and Disaster Recovery Strategy, which involves multiple transitions of the production site between the primary and fallback data centres each year to ensure the reliability and availability of our services.

Our new software, Disaster-Fail-Guard, which has been in operation since June 2024, autonomously monitors availability and, if necessary, automatically initiates a switch of operations to our fallback data centre in Vienna. As part of this test, a failure of our primary data centre will be simulated to ensure the system's autonomous activation.

We will carefully select the exact timing of the simulated data centre failure and schedule it during a period when no users are active and no requests are being made to WMACCESS, in order to minimise disruptions. Consequently, there may be a planned unavailability of 5 to 10 minutes.

We appreciate your understanding, and thank you for your patience during these important maintenance activities.

Update 12.08.2024:
The test of the autonomous disaster recovery functionality on August 10, 2024, was successful. The timeline was as follows:

• 16:56:21: A failure of the primary data centre was simulated.
• 16:57:02: Our Disaster-Fail-Guard detected the disruption.
• 17:01:02: The automatic switch of WMACCESS operations to the fallback data centre in Vienna was executed.

Since the failure was only simulated, there were no interruptions in WMACCESS operations during the five-minute grace period from 16:57 to 17:01 or during the subsequent switch to the fallback data centre.

After several hours of productive operation in the fallback data centre, operations were switched back to our primary data centre on Saturday, 10 August, at 22:59:41. Again, there was no downtime during this process.

We are pleased to introduce the improved WMACCESS menu, which will soon be available in WMACCESS via Internet.

The new WMACCESS menu is more user-friendly and contains many new and useful menu items.

These improvements provide more intuitive navigation.

Below you will find an overview of the most important changes and additions.

Renaming / Changes:

• History becomes Query history of current session
• Administration is split into Detail level of table attributes and Change Password

New Menu Items:

• Detail level of table attributes
• WMACCESS News leads to the Current News webpage
• Data Topicality leads to the WMACCESS Database status webpage
• Where to find the WM-Field?
• Overview WMACCESS WM-Fields (Excel) to download an Excel file containing all WM fields available in WMACCESS, including their short and long descriptions and the WMACCESS query profiles in which the WM fields are included.
• FAQ (WMACCESS) for frequently asked questions & answers about WMACCESS
• FAQ (WM Datenservice) for professional and content-related questions about WM data (FAQ from WM Datenservice)
• Contact / WMACCESS Customer Care for email / phone numbers for quick contact regarding any questions about WMACCESS Internet, contracts, invoices, or other matters.
• Change Password is now available as a separate, directly accessible menu item.

Menu items that contain links to the WMACCESS website will open in a new browser window or tab.
The new, optimized WMACCESS menu will be available shortly.

On June 24, 2024 the 104. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.

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

• GD209V Depository receipts category
• GV1M0 Sponsored/unsponsored depositary receipts with depositary

Frozen fields

No data fields will be frozen with this WM Release.

Further information from WM Datenservice:

• Customer information K07 from 24.06.2024
  104th Release Effective Monday, 24 June 2024
• Special information F09 from 02.04.2024
  WM data on The Act to Modernize the Relief from Withholding Tax and the Certification of Capital Gains Tax (AbzStEntModG) - part III

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.

European ESG Template (EET)

We are currently evaluating the expansion of our data spectrum. To enable us to optimise the potential purchase of data, we would ask you for feedback on whether the data area presented is of interest to you.

Update 14.06.2024:
The survey has been closed. We will inform you of the result.

Until now, only a few WM text fields, such as GD260 (Securities short description), were optimized in WMACCESS for case-insensitive searching.

This optimization has now been extended to nearly all WM text fields. Thanks to this innovation, search queries can be made more flexible, as the case of search terms no longer matters.
Currently, there are two exceptions to this extension:

• GD609 / Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
• GD441 / Fund investment focus

Update 30.07.2024:
The "case-insensitive" search has now been extended to all WM text fields, including GD609 / Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and GD441 / Fund Investment Focus.

This improvement in usability significantly facilitates the retrieval of information and makes searching for securities, issuers, and other relevant data more efficient.

On February 26, 2024 the 103. WM Release will become effective. We would like to inform you about some upcoming alterations beforehand and corresponding impacts in WMACCESS.

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

• GV1P3 Indexation coefficient

New field in the query profile Investment Fund Characteristics

• GV1P4 ELTIF initial phase, minimum holding and redemption period

Frozen fields

No data fields will be frozen with this WM Release.

Further information from WM Datenservice:

• Customer information K24 from 06.12.2023
  103rd Release Effective Monday, 26 February 2024
• Special information F01 from 03.01.2024
  ELTIFs - depiction of redemption and minimum holding periods

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.

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