Standard & Poor's provides global reference data solutions including securities identification and cross-referencing, corporate actions, descriptive and fundamental data, credit ratings and the first service to link business entities with financial securities that support securities operations and risk management 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 60 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 Morgan Stanley Capital International (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.
The CUSIP Service Bureau is operated by Standard & Poor's for the American Bankers Association (ABA). Its primary purpose is to uniquely identify issuers and issues of securities and financial instruments within a standard framework -- and disseminating this data to the financial marketplace.
Links identifiers to securities and issuers. Identifiers such as the CUSIP, ISIN, GV Key, GICS and DUNS number, as well as, internal codes such as ORG ID. Our service allows you to link it all together from different product offerings with a common thread of information.
Standard & Poor's Securities DataManager, MasterFeed, Kennybase and KennyWeb are integrated data delivery systems for U.S. fixed income securities. These systems deliver descriptive data on as many as 3.7 million municipal and corporate instruments.
