The new database, along with its interface to the numbering agencies serving more than 120 financial markets, has been completely redesigned to collect and maintain not only International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs) and related Classifications of Financial Instruments (CFIs), as before, but a host of other related ISO-standards identifiers and their data elements. In addition, the database system offers more granular search facilities, enhanced quality checks and a portfolio service.

For industry participants and data vendors that subscribe to the ASB data services or use its online look-up service, this advance will offer a broader information set related to specific financial instruments, while eliminating the labor and complications of researching and integrating this information for use in trading, post-trade processing, risk management and regulatory reporting. The full set of standards-based numbering codes and data related to a financial instrument file now includes the following:

·         The Instrument

o   ISO 6166 International Securities Instrument Number (ISIN)

o   ISO 18774 Financial Instrument Short Name (FISN)

·         The Type of Instrument incl. features describing the instrument – ISO 120 10962 Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI)

·         The Issuer of the Instrument – ISO 17442 Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

·         The issuer country code – ISO 3166, and headquarters address

·         The Denominated Currency – ISO 4217 Currency

·         Initial Trading Locations – ISO 10383 Market Identifier Code (MIC)

·         Lead Manager – identified by LEI

·         The Fund Manager – identified by LEI

·         Central Securities Depository – identified by LEI

The National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) will provide the ASB with the expanded set of ISO identifiers for financial instruments issued in their markets. LEIs will be available from countries in which LEIs are issued.  The NNAs are in the process of converting to the new file-upload interface to the ASB. Enhanced data is now populating the ASB database from a growing number of financial markets.

“We are proud that this great project to increase the scope and value of the ANNA Service Bureau is coming to fruition,” said Dan Kuhnel, chairman of the ANNA board of directors. “ANNA has a long tradition of dedication and cooperation among its membership in support of market efficiency. Their willingness to support this vision, as well as the technical collaboration of the ASB partners, has created an unprecedented financial data resource that, we believe, will remove obstacles to straight-through processing and ease regulatory compliance tasks around the world.”