What are CFD cash adjustments?

You can think of CFD cash adjustments as dividends on your CFD positions. In the platform you can see dividends, as well as other corporate actions on your CFD positions under Corporate actions tab, same as for your equity positions. The difference will be in the name of the event, where, for example, Cash dividend will be displaying as Manufactured dividend for CFD positions.

The other notable difference is that even though the event will be displayed under Voluntary corporate actions, elections are not offered for CFD positions.

As it is not accurate to call it CFD dividends, the CFD cash adjustment definition is used instead. Please be aware that CFD cash adjustments are visible in CFD cash adjustments report and not the Share dividends report.

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When an underlying stock goes ex-dividend, entitlements (adjustments) will be allocated to your account.

Cash adjustments on CFDs are booked on Ex-date based on the eligible holding on ex-date-1 reflecting the market price movement on the Ex-date, but the actual value of the payment will be settled on Pay Date.

For Long CFD positions, a cash adjustment is credited to your account. 

For Short CFD positions, a cash adjustment is debited from your account. 

You can learn more about CFDs corporate action handling on our home page.