Insurance & Retirement Services

May 26, 2023

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)

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 and Appointments (LNA)

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)

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 and Premium (AAP)

Applications & Premium (APP) transmits annuity application and initial premium information from distributors to insurance carriers.

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Attachments (ATT)

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

Initial Application (APP) and Subsequent Premium (SUB)

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)

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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Insurance Information Exchange (IIEX)

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 and Valuations (POV)

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

Account Transfers for Insurance (ACATS/IPS)

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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In-Force Transactions (IFT)

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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Post-Issue Services: Financial

Settlement Processing for Insurance (STL)

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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Commission Schedule Transmittal (CST)

Welcome! In this section of the Learning Center you will find resources to support your use of the Commission Schedule Transmittal (CST) service. To find the content you need, either use the Search field, view the relevant topics below or browse all learning content from Resources.

Fee and Expense Transmittal (FET)

Welcome! In this section of the Learning Center you will find resources to support your use of the Fee and Expense Transmittal (FET) service. To find the content you need, either use the Search field, view the relevant topics below or browse all learning content from Resources.

Miscellaneous

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