ANNA

ANNA

ANNA (the “Association of National Numbering Agencies”) is fully committed to proactively promoting, implementing, maintaining and making available, standards for securities and related financial instruments, in a uniform and accurate structure for the benefit of their home markets and of the securities industry as a whole.

The ANNA Service Bureau (“ASB”) was established in 2001 and is managed by ANNA, Standard & Poor’s and Telekurs Financial. It is part of ANNA’s commitment to facilitate the financial industry’s movement towards straight through processing. ANNA continues to focus on and promote the timely, accurate and standardized identification of financial instruments through the use of ISIN in addition to ensuring ISINs are made available on a global scale.
The ASB acts as a central hub to receive and consolidate ISIN data from the 66 ANNA members, covering more than 200 countries and disseminates the security attributes data to the market via down-loadable FTP and web based solutions. It is a common platform for the consolidation of ISIN and CFI products and replaces the GIAM (“Global ISIN Access Mechanism”) product.

As of February 2005, the ANNA Service Bureau had over 2.85 million ISIN numbers and local codes on its database, representing 2.16 million live securities. All major markets are included in the database, including all the EU Member states. Market participants can access the database via daily or weekly bulk delivery of ISIN data via FTP or via a real-time web-based delivery tool. The Service Bureau also makes available local identification codes and a cross referring system between ISIN numbers and such local codes.

Registration and maintenance of international standards under ANNA’s responsibility, is enacted according to rules and regulations set out by ISO, (the “International Organization for Standardization”).

Objectives

1. Global promotion of ISO standards under ANNA’s
Control as Registration Authority

• Give assistance to members
• Promote National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) involvement
• Give assistance and support to market participants with regards to standards
• Full ISIN coverage where no NNA exists
• Support ANNA membership
• Monitor ANNA members rights and obligations
• Define role of Partners and Substitute NNAs
• Develop marketing strategies and increase visibility of ANNA

2. Make available

• International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) allocation according to ISO Standard 6166
• Classification of financial instruments (CFI) allocation according to ISO Standard 10962
• Dissemination of ISIN and CFI through NNAs and ANNA Service Bureau (ASB)
• Products of the ASB: ISIN_Access (Look-up service) and ISIN_db (Daily datafeed)

3. Quality

• Develop and proactive maintenance of ISIN- and CFI-guidelines
• Monthly reporting by ASB and other statistical information
• Assure timeliness / accuracy / availability

4. Committed to work with the financial industry

• ISIN-/ CFI- guidelines
• Interaction of ANNA with the external world

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