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 |
| (A)GM | (Annual) General Meeting (of ANNA) |
| AGRA | Advisory Group on Registration Authorities (ISO TC68) |
| 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 |
| ANNA/WG1 | ANNA Working Group 1 – Assisting Emerging Markets |
| ANNA/WG2 | ANNA Working Group 2– ISIN Quality & Guidelines |
| ANNA/WG5 | ANNA Working Group 5 – Pre-LOU Group for LEI (currently dormant) |
| 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 |
| BIC | Business Identifier Code (according to ISO 9362) |
| CAG | Chairman’s Advisory Group (ISO TC68/SC4) |
| CD | Circulated Draft (Standard) |
| CER | Certified Emission Reduction |
| CFI | Classification of Financial Instruments (according to ISO 10962) |
| CFTC | U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
| CPMI | Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures |
| CSD | Central Securities Depository |
| CSDR | EU-Central Securities Depositories Regulation |
| DIS | Draft International Standard |
| DSB | Derivatives Services Bureau |
| EBA | European Banking Authority |
| ECB | European Central Bank |
| ECSDA | European Central Securities Depositories Association |
| EGM | Extraordinary General Meeting of ANNA |
| ELF | Entity Legal Forms (ISO 20275) |
| ESMA | European Securities and Markets Authority |
| ETS | ETrading Software |
| EUA | European Union Allowances |
| FDIS | Final Draft International Standard |
| FEAS | Federation of European and Asian Stock Exchange |
| FESE | Federation of European Stock Exchanges |
| FIGI | Financial Instruments Global Identifier (OMG standard allocated by Bloomberg) |
| FISN | Financial Instrument Short Name (according to ISO 18774) |
| FCA | Financial Conduct 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) |
| GUUG | Group on Unique Trade identifier (UTI) and Unique product identifier (UPI) Governance |
| IBAN | International Bank Account Number (according to ISO 13616) |
| ICMA | International Capital Markets Association |
| ICMSA | International Capital Markets Services Association |
| ICSD | International Central Securities Depositary (Euroclear/Clearstream) |
| IOSCO | International Organisation of Securities Commissions |
| IRG | Industry Representation Group |
| 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 17442 | Legal Entitiy Identifier- 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/SC8 | ISO TC 68 Sub-Committee 8 (Reference Data for Financial Services) |
| ISO TC68/SC8/WG1 | ISO Working Group undertaking the ISO 10962 revision |
| LEI | Legal Entity Identifier (according to ISO 17442 Standard) |
| LoU | Letter of Understanding between ANNA and each NNA |
| LOU | Local Operating Unit (related to LEI) |
| NGN | New Global Note |
| NNA | National Numbering Agency |
| NSS | New Safekeeping Structure |
| NWI | New Work Item (for an ISO Standard) |
| NWIP | New Work Item Proposal (for an ISO Standard) |
| MA | References the ISO Maintenance Agency for a particular Standard |
| MIC | Market Identifier Code (according to ISO 10383) |
| MiFID II | Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (European Regulation) |
| MiFIR | Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MSP | Management Service Provider for DSB |
| MTF | Multilateral Trading Facility |
| OMG | Object Management Group (Standards Organization) |
| OTC | Over the Counter |
| PC | Product Committee |
| P-Member | ISO Participation Countries (with voting entitlements) |
| RA | References the ISO Registration Authority for a particular Standard |
| RAA | Registration Authority Agreement |
| RAND | Reasonable And Non Discriminatory (principle for RA terms by ISO) |
| RDL | Reference Data Library |
| ROC | Regulatory Oversight Committee for the LEI System |
| SAG | Standards Advisory Group |
| SFTR | Securities Financing Transactions Regulation |
| SI | Systematic Internaliser |
| SIFMA | Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SLLA | Service Level License Agreement between ANNA and the ASB Operators (Replaced in 2011 by “Agreement for the provision of services”) |
| SNA | Substitute Numbering Agency |
| SVP | Special Purpose Vehicle |
| STP | Straight-Through-Processing |
| TAC | Technical Advisory Committee |
| TF | Task Force |
| UIROC | Unique Identifier Regulatory Oversight Committee |
| UIP | Unique Product Identifier |
| UTI | Unique Transaction Identifier |
| VER | Voluntary or Verified Emission Reduction |
| WG | Working Group |
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ANNA Glossary Version 05 2014 |
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