The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has revealed that 16 National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) have now signed up to the voluntary initiative which maps new and legacy international securities identification numbers (ISINs) to their corresponding legal entity identifiers (LEIs).
ANNA is a global member association seeking to foster standardisation within the financial industry by upholding the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) principles and by promoting ISINs, classification of financial instrument codes (CFIs), and financial instrument short names (FISN), for financial instruments.
The ISIN to LEI linkage service, which went live on 4 April this year and a joint initiative between ANNA and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), has seen over 4.5 million ISIN records linked to 64,000 unique LEIs.
The 16 NNAs that have joined the ISIN-to-LEI mapping initiative cover 20 jurisdictions, including Italy, Japan, Spain, Turkey and the US.
ANNA also revealed that there are more NNAs in the pipeline.
Dan Kuhnel, chairman, ANNA, said: “We are delighted with the continued success of such an important collaboration to help the industry improve the transparency of exposure by linking the issuer and issuance of securities. We are working across all regions, to make this ISIN LEI mapping a truly global initiative.”
Stephan Wolf, CEO of GLEIF, said: “We are pleased that this initiative to bring ISO standards together like this, linking the global instrument and global identity, is proving so popular with early adopters who are reaping the benefits. By linking the two ISO standards together, firms are able to aggregate the data required to gain a clear view of their securities exposure within a given issuer and its related entities.”
