Glossary
Commonly used acronyms in ANNA-related matters and on this website:
| ACG | Asian CSD Group |
| ACSDA | Americas’ Central Securities Depositories Association |
| AECSD | Association of Eurasian CSDs |
| AGM | Annual General Meeting |
| AGRA | Advisory Group on Registration Authorities (ISO TC68) |
| AIFI | ANNA Issuer & Fund Identifier |
| AII | Alternative Instrument Identifier (for Futures & Options) |
| ALARG | ANNA Latin America Regional Group |
| AMEDA | African & Middle East Depositories Association |
| AMERG | African & Middle East Regional Group (ANNA Regional Group) |
| ANNA | Association of National Numbering Agencies |
| ANNA/TF20 | ANNA Task Force 20 – Implementation of new standards (FISN & AIFI) |
| ANNA/WG1 | ANNA Working Group 1 – Assisting Emerging Markets |
| ANNA/WG2 | ANNA Working Group 2– ISIN Quality & Guidelines |
| ANNA/WG4 | ANNA Working Group 4 – Emerging ANNA members |
| ANNA/WG5 | ANNA Working Group 5 – Pre-LOU Group for LEI |
| APARG | Asia Pacific Regional Group (ANNA Regional Group) |
| ASB | ANNA Service Bureau |
| ASB TC | ANNA Service Bureau Technical Committee |
| ASIFMA | Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association |
| CAG | Chairman’s Advisory Group (ISO TC68/SC4) |
| CD | Circulated Draft (Standard) |
| CFI | Classification of Financial Instruments (according to ISO 10962) |
| CFTC | U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
| CICI | CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier |
| COU | Central Operating Unit (related to LEI) |
| CSD | Central Securities Depository |
| DIS | Draft International Standard |
| ECB | European Central Bank |
| ECSDA | European Central Securities Depositories Association |
| EGM | Extraordinary General Meeting |
| ESMA | European Securities and Markets Authority |
| FDIS | Final Draft International Standard |
| FESE | Federation of European Stock Exchanges |
| FISN | Financial Instrument Short Name (according to ISO 18774) |
| FSA | Financial Services Authority (UK Regulator) |
| FSB | Financial Stability Board |
| GFMA | Global Financial Markets Association |
| GIAM | Global ISIN Access Mechanism (predecessor of the ASB until 2001) |
| GLEIF | Global LEI Foundation |
| GLEIS | Global LEI System |
| GMEI | Global Markets Entity Identifier (new name for former CICI) |
| ICMA | International Capital Markets Association |
| ICSD | International Central Securities Depositary (Euroclear/Clearstream) |
| IGI | Issuer & Guarantor Identifier (according to ISO 16372) |
| ISIN | International Securities Identification Number (according to ISO 6166) |
| ISITC | International Securities Association for Institutional Trade |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISO 6166 | ISIN Standard reference number |
| ISO 10383 | MIC Standard reference number |
| ISO 10962 | CFI Standard reference number |
| ISO 16372 | IGI Standard reference number |
| ISO 17442 | Legal Entitiy Identifier- Standard reference number |
| ISO 18773 | Abbreviations (relevant for ISO 18774) — Standard reference number |
| ISO 18774 | Financial Instrument Short Name – Standard reference number |
| ISO CS | ISO Central Secretariat |
| ISO TC68 | ISO Technical Committee 68 (Financial services) |
| ISO TC68/SC4 | ISO TC 68 Sub-Committee 4 (Securities and related financial instruments) |
| ISO TC68/SC4/WG1 | ISO Working Group undertaking the ISO 6166 revision |
| ISO TC68/SC4/WG6 | ISO Working Group undertaking the ISO 10962 revision |
| ISO TC68/SC4/WG8 | ISO Working Group undertaking preparation of the IGI standard |
| ISO TC68/SC4/WG14 | ISO Working Group undertaking the ISO 18773/18774 review |
| LEI / Pre LEI | Legal Entity Identifier / Pre Legal Entity Identifier |
| LoU | Letter of Understanding between ANNA and each NNA |
| LOU | Local Operating Unit (related to LEI) |
| NNA | National Numbering Agency |
| NWI | New Work Item (for an ISO Standard) |
| MA | References the ISO Maintenance Agency for a particular Standard |
| MIC | Market Identifier Code (according to ISO 10383) |
| MiFID | Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (European Regulation) |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| PSPG | FSB LEI Private Sector Preparatory Group |
| RA | References the ISO Registration Authority for a particular Standard |
| RAND | Reasonable And Non Discriminatory (principle for RA terms by ISO) |
| ROC | Regulatory Oversight Committee for the LEI System |
| SAG | Standards Advisory Group |
| SIFMA | Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association |
| SLLA | Service Level License Agreement between ANNA and the ASB Operators (replaced by the new “Agreement for the provision of services”) |
| SNA | Substitute Numbering Agency |
| STP | Straight-Through-Processing |
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