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A repurchase in Centi records the buyback of securities from a stakeholder — the selling party transfers their holdings back to the organisation, and Centi tracks the signing, payment, and registration steps through to completion. You create a repurchase as a draft, select the seller and buyer, configure which securities are being bought back and at what price, and then manage each step of the process on the Repurchases page.
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Navigate to Repurchases

In the Fund Portal sidebar, navigate to repurchases.
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Start a new repurchase

Click Create repurchase. The repurchase creation modal opens.

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Configure the repurchase

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1. Select buyer and seller

Use the Seller dropdown to choose the stakeholder who is selling their securities. Use the Buyer dropdown to select the entity that will acquire the securities.

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2. Select a program and leaver envelope

After selecting a seller, Centi loads the seller’s current holdings across all programs in the organisation. For each program:
  • Review the seller’s ownership — the number of units they hold per security class.
  • Select a leaver envelope from the dropdown. If no leaver envelope is available, you must first add one in the Templates page before you can proceed.
If the seller has holdings in multiple programs that share the same leaver envelope, Centi groups those programs under a single repurchase entry. If your organisation has multiple programs with different leaver envelopes, multiple repurchases will be created.

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3. Enter securities and pricing

For each security included in the repurchase, enter the number of units being bought back and the price per unit. Centi displays reference pricing information to help you determine the correct price: You can repurchase a partial quantity — enter fewer units than the seller’s total holding. Centi shows a running total of units selected versus units available, and calculates the total repurchase amount as you type.
If the seller acquired the same security at multiple dates, the purchase price displayed is a weighted average across all acquisition batches.

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4. Set signing and payment deadlines

After entering the securities details, configure the repurchase deadlines:
  • Signing deadline — The date by which the leaver envelope must be signed.
  • Payment deadline — Required for any repurchase with a non-zero amount that is not fully financed by a loan. Choose when payment is due:

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5. Review the registration process

Once you have entered security details and set a payment deadline, the Process section updates to show the sequence of steps for completing the repurchase: bank details confirmation (where payment is required), signing, payment, and registration. This preview helps you understand what will happen after the draft is created.

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6. Create the draft repurchase

Click Create draft repurchase. Centi saves the repurchase with Pending status and it appears on the Repurchases tab of the organisation page.

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View repurchase details

To open the detail panel for a repurchase, click its row in the repurchases table. The detail panel shows:
  • The seller and buyer
  • The securities being repurchased, with units and price per unit
  • The total repurchase amount
  • Current status indicators for each step: Bank details, Signature, Payment, and Registration
  • Signing and payment deadlines
  • Any loan note configuration (if a loan note template is attached to the leaver envelope)

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Signature status

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Payment status

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Register a repurchase

Once the repurchase is fully signed — and paid, where payment is required before registration — you can register it to record the securities movement in the share register.
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Confirm readiness

Check that the Signature status shows Fully signed and, for repurchases with payment due before registration, that the Payment status shows Paid. If either prerequisite is not met, the registration action will not be available.
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Register

Select the repurchase and click Register repurchase. Centi records the buyback transaction in the share register and marks the repurchase as Registered.
For repurchases with deferred payment (payment due after registration), Centi allows registration before payment is marked. Remember to return to the repurchase and mark it as paid once the payment is completed — this keeps the payment status accurate for your records.

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Download draft agreements in bulk

On the Repurchases tab of the organisation page, click Download draft agreements (next to Download report) to bulk-generate the draft agreement documents for every active repurchase that has an envelope with at least one template attached. Centi renders each repurchase’s documents from the envelope templates with the repurchase’s data populated, packages them into a single ZIP archive, and downloads it in your browser. Use this to review the final signing documents before sending repurchases out for signing, or to share a batch of drafts internally.
If none of the repurchases have a draft agreement available yet — for example, if no envelopes have templates attached — the download will fail with a message explaining that there are no downloadable draft agreements.

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Export repurchase data

To export repurchase records for reporting or reconciliation, use the export function on the Repurchases tab.
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Navigate to the Repurchases tab

On the organisation page, select the Repurchases tab.
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Export

Click the Export button. Centi generates a spreadsheet containing all repurchase records for the organisation, including seller, buyer, securities, units, price per unit, total amount, deadlines, and current status.