The Derivatives Service Bureau

Headquartered in London, the DSB is a legal subsidiary of ANNA. Its core purpose is to serve as a global numbering agency, providing unique identification of OTC derivatives to serve the needs of market participants and regulators through allocation of the International Securities Identification Number (ISIN), as well as the Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI) and Financial Instrument Short Name (FISN), as OTC products are created. The ISIN, CFI and FISN are globally recognized and adopted ISO standards for identifying and classifying financial instruments. The DSB provides services that range from no-cost Web-based lookup of OTC ISINs and daily automated downloads of ISIN records, to ISIN creation by three categories of fee-paying users. These are Infrequent and Standard Users that access the DSB through a web interface, and Power Users that are programmatically connected for more automated operations. More detailed information on the DSB and its development path can be found in the DSB section and related pages, as well as recent announcements at the ANNA website.