Glossary entry

Dutch term or phrase:

fixatie

English translation:

value date / dating (with serious reservations: see context)

Added to glossary by jarry (X)
Jan 21, 2008 19:16
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Dutch term

fixatie

Dutch to English Bus/Financial Finance (general)
This is part of a doc. explaining how a computer system for a bank calculates what interest/fees/costs to debit/credit to/from an account. Fixatie seems to be contrasted with a fusie (=merger ?)
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Fusie en fixatie
Een [overeenkomst] kan een deel van de maand bij het ene kantoor hebben gezeten en na een fixatie een deel van de maand bij een ander kantoor. ...........
Bij een fusie geldt dat alle betreffende BBO’s [=basisbetaalovereenkomst] en GAO’s [= groepsafrekenovereenkomst] over gaan naar het nieuwe leidende kantoor.
GAO kunnen niet fixeren. Bij een fixatie wordt de oude GAO afgesloten en wordt bij het nieuwe kantoor een nieuwe GAO geopend.
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Any ideas?
Proposed translations (English)
3 value date / dating
1 cut-off (date)
Change log

Jan 26, 2008 11:31: jarry (X) Created KOG entry

Discussion

Brian Moses (asker) Jan 25, 2008:
News from the client! The client now explains that this does indeed refer to a customer moving from one branch to another. Some kinds of arrangement can simply move with him while others are linked to a branch so you have to close at the old branch and open an new account/arrangement at the new branch. So that is what it is. The client says this is called a "fixation". I have my doubts but ....

Proposed translations

19 hrs
Selected

value date / dating

As inspired by L.J.WvL :-)

Value date: The date the transfer entry to an account is considered effective; either the day the instruction is received or some future date as stipulated by the originator. Seehttp://www.atis.org/tg2k/_value_date.html

Value dating: When value or credit is given for funds transferred between banks. See http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Value dati...


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Note added at 21 hrs (2008-01-22 17:10:19 GMT)
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That bit about "Banken houden klanten gevangen" reminds me of the term 'captive' as applied to insurance companies.
See http://www.coverageglossary.com/explanations/captive.htm

DEFINITION OF CAPTIVE INSURANCE COMPANY
A captive insurance company is an insurance company that has been set up to provide coverage at a lower cost than available by going through the general insurance market. The company's stock is controlled by one interest or a group of related interests so as to provide coverage for their business operations. A captive insurance company may be a nonadmitted, nonresident, or foreign insurer. Sometimes it may provide reinsurance to a self-insure or a domestic company.

Note from asker:
Thanks Jarry ... but, how does this tie up with the end of the passage I quote above - "GAO kunnen niet fixeren. Bij een fixatie wordt de oude GAO afgesloten en wordt bij het nieuwe kantoor een nieuwe GAO geopend"? This seems to suggest that in some way the GAO (= cash pool, apparently) is closed in one branch and opened in another when this 'fixatie' takes place.
Ah! I have found what may be a relevant Google. "De overstapservice is een niet klantvriendelijk product, wat door de banken als doekje voor het bloeden wordt gebruikt. In de jaren 80 heb, als medewerker van een bank, regelmatig rekeningnummers van Rabo's ABN; NMB en AMRO, overgehaald naar de Bondsspaarbank. Fixatie heette dat toen, maar dat zijn de banken blijkbaar vergeten" This is in http://www.depers.nl/economie/71911/Banken-houden-klanten-gevangen.html the document I am translating is indeed from Rabobank. So it seems here to be used for some sort of service to transfer accounts. (overstapservice).
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks for the discussion Jarry."
9 hrs

cut-off (date)

The branches appear to share revenues. This applies after a cut off date.
Stupid? maybe but that is what I think. Good luck!
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