Subject:
Re: Secuirty Identification and market price retrieval

Posted by:
Alain Duhamel of ANNA Executive Secretary on 22 May, 2001 at 07:56:56:

Message:
Dear Mr Mesfin,

With reference to your needs, I confirm that the ISIN codes are not supposed to make any distinction when a security issue is traded on different markets.

This is not the purpose of the ISIN which is allocated in accordance with the ISO-6166 standard, taking in account fungibility aspects only.

Another standard referenced ISO-10383 applies to the MIC (Market Identifier Code); however, as all other ISO standards, ISO-10383 is copyright protected unabling me to provide you with a copy of this document which could be obtained through your national standardization body.

Last but not least, a revision of this standard could be proposed in the near future with Reuters being part of the ad'hoc working group; one of the goal being to facilitate market price capture.
Conclusions are expected before year end.

Best regards.
Alain Duhamel