Standard & Poor's provides global reference data solutions including securities identification, corporate actions, descriptive and fundamental data, and cross referencing services that support securities operations worldwide. Capabilities assist with STP, global clearance and settlement, compliance, security master file maintenance and data management and operations.
We provide industry standard CUSIP numbers and descriptive services, over 3 million global cross-reference numbers from more than 67 National Numbering Agencies, and distribute more than 1.2 million ISINs worldwide.
Your only complete source for ISIN Numbers. For securities standardization in global cross-border trading and straight-through-processing (STP), Standard & Poor's, the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), and Telekurs Financial have created the ANNA Service Bureau.
Standard & Poor's and MSCI Barra, two leading providers of global indices, jointly launched the GICS structure in 1999. The Global Industry Classification Standard was developed to meet the global financial community's need for one complete, consistent set of global sector
and industry definitions.
CUSIP Global Services is dedicated to driving efficient trading, clearing and settlement in capital markets throughout the world. By providing a unique common language for identifying financial instruments across institutions, exchanges and nations, financial services firms benefit from improved operating efficiencies and substantially reduced administrative costs.
Standard & Poor’s provides comprehensive reference data matching services linking identifiers to securities and issuers. Our service allows you to link data all together from different product offerings with a common thread of information.