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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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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