The system was also implicated in a payment crisis which hit the Calcutta stock exchange in March, when a sharp fall in stock prices left a group of brokers with big carry forward positions unable to honour their financial commitments.

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There is no cap on payment in the form of restricted stock.

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As we testified, many other abuses such as personal trading by portfolio managers, underwriters parking investment banking client stock in affiliated mutual funds, payment of Investment Company Institute fees from fund assets, have yet to surface as concerns.

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If you hold that stock directly in your account, you know when to expect payment.

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When Kohlberg Kravis Roberts leveraged Storer Broadcasting, Drexel created a payment-in-kind preferred as the junior security and insisted KKR give warrants to buy common stock as a sweetener.

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The stock had rallied earlier in the day as the company announced the release of a mobile payment system, but jumped as CEO Andrew Mason gave an TV interview to CNBC.

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If you do wish to account for this, enter the value of the dividend payment with a negative sign on the date a stock goes ex-dividend, and add the number back in when the dividend is received.

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