Date 16/12/2020 The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), a global member association seeking to foster standardisation within the financial industry by upholding the ISO principles and by promoting International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), Classification of Financial Instrument codes (CFIs), and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISN), for financial and referential instruments, announced today that additional jurisdictions have been added to the open-source relationship files provided through the certified ISIN-to-LEI mapping service. This certified initiative, which ANNA has undertaken with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), maps ISINs to their corresponding Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs).
The collaboration between GLEIF, ANNA and the National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) was launched as a pilot project in April 2019. The aim of bringing these two ISO standards together is to improve transparency and aid risk and exposure management. Based upon a mapping process established by ANNA, the parties have worked to identify how existing workflows could be leveraged or modified for enhanced validation, resulting in GLEIF certification. Volumes of ISIN-to-LEI coverage have grown to 5.2m active ISINs linked to almost 72,000 unique LEIs.