Corporate action

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An action with regard to a security — a merger, rights issue, restructuring or similar — which obliges a shareholder to make a vote or exercise an election of some kind. Can get tasty in the context of a stock lending arrangement, if the Borrower is short the security in question on the record date.

See also

• Corporate actions