Bid-cum-Application form
The public issue application a DP may accept only if its name appears on the stock exchange website as eligible, acknowledged by counterfoil or application number and uploaded to the exchange's electronic bidding system.
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- ASBAThe mandatory payment mechanism for public and rights issues, in which your bank blocks the application money in your own account and debits it only if you actually get an allotment.
- Corporate actionAn event initiated by a company that changes the securities it has issued — dividend, buyback, bonus, split, consolidation, rights issue or merger — and which the registrar has to execute investor by investor.
- Record dateThe date on which a company looks at its register and decides who gets the bonus, dividend, rights or split — you must be holding the shares in your demat account at the end of that day.
Where this is taught
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