BALI (Yosefardi) – From its annual extraordinary general meeting held in Bali, the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) announced on Thursday (November 21) the culmination of a two-year development project to provide broadly enriched ISIN records to users of the ANNA Service Bureau (ASB).
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 ISIN is the globally recognized, ISO-developed standard for instrument identification.