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Welcome! In this section of the DTCC Learning Center you will find the resources you need to maximize your use of DTCC's Insurance & Retirement Services offerings. To find the content you need either use the Search field or select a product below to access user guides, record layouts , video tutorials, FAQs, and more.

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DTCC's Insurance & Retirement Services (I&RS) offers a suite of streamlined processing and compliance-driven solutions for carriers and their distribution partners -- broker/dealers, banks, brokerage general agencies, independent broker/dealers and other firms -- through a secure, centralized and automated infrastructure. This infrastructure enables insurance carriers and distributors to exchange information at various points throughout the annuity and life insurance processing cycle.

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Agent Services

Commissions (COM) transmits information regarding agent commission and compensation payments from insurance carriers to distributors for annuity and life insurance products. It also provides same-day money settlement.
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Licensing & Appointments (LNA) automates and standardizes the two-way flow of information needed to manage producer information between insurance carriers and distributors, eliminating paper and simplifying data exchange.
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Producer Management Portal (PMP) provides a comprehensive source for centralizing, sharing, tracking & verifying producer training completions. State & product training & source for authorizations for annuity sales.
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Pre-Issue Services

Applications & Premium (APP) transmits annuity application and initial premium information from distributors to insurance carriers.
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Attachments (ATT) enables insurance distributors and carriers to electronically exchange digital (imaged) documents, signatures, forms and other types of unstructured data during the pre-sale, new business and post-issue processing of annuity and life insurance information.
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Monitoring & Reporting

Asset Pricing (AAP) enables insurance carriers to transmit the unit values for underlying funds within variable annuity and life insurance products to distributors on a daily basis. It provides fund-level pricing information, similar to the net asset value for mutual funds, that may be applicable to multiple insurance products within a carrier’s product line.
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Financial Activity Reporting (FAR) enables insurance carriers to provide distributors with daily individual and group annuity and life insurance financial transaction information, giving them a comprehensive and accurate picture of client accounts and helping them supervise and manage those accounts.
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DTCC’s Insurance Information Exchange (IIEX) is a platform that provides clients with the ability to exchange policy, producer, and product data through a secure data hub that supports the sourcing and consumption of data.
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Positions & Valuations (POV) enables insurance carriers to send annuity, life insurance long-term care and retirement income/immediate annuities contract details on a daily, weekly, monthly or other periodic basis, giving them a current snapshot of their entire book of business.
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Post-Issue Services: Non-Financial

ACATS-IPS (Automated Customer Account Transfer Service/ Insurance Processing Service) automates the changes in distributors of record for an annuity when clients transfer their accounts from one brokerage firm to another.
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DTCC’s IFW Services for Financial & Non-Financial Transactions extends support for the post-issue transaction set, allowing distributors to submit requests through mainframe, real-time service or a simple web interface. 
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As an In-Force Transaction (IFT), this automated service facilitates changes of the representative of record (REP) within the managing firm requested by the distributor when the representative leaves the firm, retires or when business for a customer account is transitioned to another agent. 
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Post-Issue Services: Financial

Settlement Processing for Insurance automates and centralizes the settlement of post-issue money/funding activities between carriers and distributors as well as between carriers, allowing for the optimal facilitation of insurance withdrawals, full and partial surrenders and mandatory required distributions.
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Subsequent Premiums (SUB) transmits subsequent premium information from distributors to insurance carriers. The service provides an efficient, straight-through process for validating, formatting, and submitting subsequent premium payments while incorporating same-day money settlement.
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Insurance Information Exchange - Online Help

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Attachments Trading Relationships Online Reference Guide

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LNA Trading Relationships Online Reference Guide

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IFT Trading Relationships Online Reference Guide

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Asset Pricing Trading Relationships Online Reference Guide

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PVF/PNF/PFF Layouts

September 01, 2021

Inforce Transactions (IFT) Layouts

This document provides the record layouts for ACATS (IPS)/BIN/REP/BEN - Inforce Transactions (IFT).
September 01, 2021

Sample Carrier Day 1 Response Message for Broker Dealer of Record Change (Carrier Reject for Business Reason)

This is an XML Sample of a Policy Administration Transaction (TXLife) response message for Broker Dealer of Change with the carrier rejecting for business reason.
October 21, 2020

Sample Carrier Day 1 Response Message for Broker Dealer of Record Change (Carrier Accepted for Further Processing)

This is an XML Sample of a Policy Administration Transaction (TXLife) response message for Broker Dealer of Change with the carrier accepting for further processing.
October 21, 2020

Custodial to Non-Custodial - Sample Message (with Sept 2020 requirement)

This is an XML Sample of a Policy Administration Transaction (TXLife) response message for Broker Dealer of Change Custodial to Non-Custodial transfer type.
October 21, 2020

Processing Rules for Broker Dealer of Record Change: B2B Client Transmission

This guide provides guidelines for building the B2B Policy Administration (TXLife 113) request message supporting the five (5) Broker Dealer of Record Change transfer types.
October 20, 2020

Attachments Access User and Implementation Guide

This guide will show you how to log in and use the Attachments AccessSM application. Attachments AccessSM allows users to input and exchange data via attachments with trading partners.
September 20, 2020
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