ANNA and GLEIF expand ISIN-to-LEI mapping service 17 December 2020UK Reporter: Maddie Saghir
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The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) has added additional jurisdictions to the open-source relationship files provided through the certified International Securities Identification Number (ISIN)-to-legal entity identifier (LEI) mapping service.
The certified initiative, which ANNA has undertaken with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), maps ISINs to their corresponding LEIs.
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.
To date, 22 NNAs have joined the ISIN-to-LEI Mapping initiative with ISIN coverage across 41 jurisdictions, most recently expanding to include Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Islands, Curacao, and the EU.
Also included is Grenada, Marshall Islands, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and Virgin Islands (British), with more NNAs in the pipeline.
Dan Kuhnel, chairman of ANNA, said: We are delighted to see the initiative grow from strength to strength with NNAs joining on an ongoing basis. The partnership has exceeded initial expectations of purely mapping to incorporate new issues as it has also included mappings for existing active ISINs. It will continue to provide harmonised data standards to an increasing number of market participants.”
Stephan Wolf, CEO of GLEIF, added: “I’m excited that our partnership with ANNA is bringing ISO standards together and enabling data integration. Data quality has remained high with the number of third party challenges being very low. We know the partnership will only continue to strengthen and help the industry continue to find integration and seamless data alignment.”
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