IBACAS appreciates the need to keep up to date with all the latest issues, directives and regulatory changes that affect Corporate Actions processing. In addition to regular meetings with our network of senior figures in the industry, IBACAS attends a number of market committees and conferences.

UK Market Practice Group - IBACAS consultants were early key members of this group. The group is responsible for determining the UK market practice for processing under ISO15022 and contributing to the Global Securities Market Practice Group. Details of this group's output can be found at www.smpg.info.

Reference Data User Group - IBACAS attend the RDUG Corporate Actions working group. This group is investigating ways of standardising the announcement format at the issuer level, using ISO15022 as the underlying standard. Details of the groups findings can be found at www.isitc.org/workgroups/.

Market Data User Group - IBACAS attends this group on behalf of a data vendor client. This group is chaired by SWIFT and comprises of Corporate Actions Data Vendors. The group has worked to produce a principles document to set the rules for how data vendors convert their proprietary formats to an ISO15022 format. The principles document can be found at www.swift.com.