{"id":45261,"date":"2023-04-05T14:12:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.captrader.com\/glossar\/record-date\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:11:34","slug":"record-date","status":"publish","type":"glossar","link":"https:\/\/www.captrader.com\/en\/glossar\/record-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The so-called \"record date\" is a cut-off date that can be found in&nbsp;<strong>Germany<\/strong>&nbsp;relates to the exercise of a shareholder's voting rights at the Annual General Meeting. Unlike in Germany, the&nbsp;<strong>Record Date in the USA<\/strong>&nbsp;in connection with the dividend payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Record Date in Germany<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Germany, the record date is a&nbsp;<strong>Deadline<\/strong>which determines whether a shareholder may be represented at the general meeting of a stock corporation.&nbsp;<strong>voting<\/strong>&nbsp;is or is not. The record date is 21 days before the Annual General Meeting. Anyone who owns shares in a company on this date is entitled to exercise voting rights at the Annual General Meeting, even if the shares are sold again before the Annual General Meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Record Date in the USA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the USA, the Record Date (also: Date Of Record) is set by the&nbsp;<em>Board Of Directors<\/em>&nbsp;defined. The \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.captrader.com\/en\/glossary\/ex-dividend-and-ex-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ex-dividend date<\/a>\" (i.e. the day on which a company's share is sold at a discount in the amount of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.captrader.com\/en\/glossary\/dividend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dividend<\/a> is traded) is set by the exchange on the day before the record date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While in Germany the ex-dividend date is one day after the Annual General Meeting and the shares of the respective company are traded ex-dividend on this day and the dividend payment must be made no later than on the third trading day after the Annual General Meeting, in the USA the ex-dividend date is&nbsp;<strong>well before the dividend payment<\/strong>. To be entitled to the dividend, a shareholder must own the stock before the ex-date, in the U.S. as two days before the record date.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-45261","glossar","type-glossar","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"blog_summary":"","blog_faq_schalter":"nein","faq_uberschrift":"","blog_faq_loop":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captrader.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossar\/45261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captrader.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captrader.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossar"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captrader.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captrader.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}