Reference

ISO 10962 - CFI: Classification of Financial Instruments

   The CFI reflects characteristics that are defined when a financial instrument is issued and remain unchanged during its entire lifetime.
The CFI consists of six alphabetical characters:
The first character indicates the highest level of classification (categories).
Category Group Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6

E-D-R-O-F-M

         
E - Equities)
D - Debt instruments
R - Entitlements (Rights)
O - Options
F - Futures
M - Others/Miscellaneous
Groups e.g. for equities:

Shares
Preferred shares
Convertible preferred shares
Units, i.e. unit trusts/mutual funds etc.
Others
Attributes e.g. for equities:

Voting right
Ownership/transfer restrictions
Payment status
Form

 

See: ANNA Association of National Numbering Agencies

 

Good idea to start using the 6 defined categories.

ISO 3166 - Country codes

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  • ISO 3166-1 codes for country and dependent area names, first published in 1974
  • ISO 3166-2 defines codes for the principal subdivisions of a country or dependent area.
  • ISO 3166-3 defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes, first published in 1998.
  • ISO3166-1 (numeric) defines A2 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and A3 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) codes for countries and territories, and IANA assigned them for ccTLD root domain names on Internet (except for GB where IANA historically kept UK).
    Territories: only UN members will be represented by an A2 code assignment.
    The ISO 3166-1 numerical code is also defined in United Nations Statistics references.

ISO 4217 - Currency codes


  • Alphabetic code for the representation of currencies

The currency code is composed of: the two letters ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code plus the initial of the currency name.

Examples:

CNY = CN (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for China plus Y (initial for the Yuan)

ZAR = ZA (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for South Africa plus Z (initial for the Rand)

GBP = GB (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for Great Britain plus P (initial for the pound)

Kiwies= NZD, Aussies = AUD, Swissies = CHF,...

ISO 6166 - a.k.a. ISIN International Securities Identifying Number

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ISIN structure:

two letters
country code
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
National Securities Identification number
alpha-numeric 9 characters
check digit
numeric
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
                       

Also see ISO 10962 - CFI: Classification of Financial Instruments

ISO 8601 - Date & Time formats


YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.ffff example 2003-10-10 11:12:20

YYYY four digit year,
MM two digit month
DD two digit day
HH 2 digit hour, 24H format
MM 2 digit minutes
SS two digit seconds
ffff fractional seconds, as long as needed

Punctuations may be stripped, but ISO recommends to separate date and time by the letter T - example 20031010T111220
If you use the Universal Time, you would add the Z letter at the end of the time segment - example: 2003-10-10 11:12Z or 20031010T1112Z.

Other time notations are reputed local. See Markus Kuhn's summary and discussion

ITU standard E.164/I.331 - Phone codes

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SI - The International System of Units

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*.pdf Brochure

Base units (a.k.a. MKS System, for Metre, Kilo, Seconde)

And 22  SI derived units

For our American friends still not using international units of measures, their own standard organisation (NIST) has this *.pdf table "General Tables of Units of Measurement "

Most common contract month codes used by the US futures industry


Futures usually have a ticker in the form: cc01m :: ccm1 :: ccm01 :: ....
Where cc is the commodity code,
01 or 1 one or two digits for the year,
m the month code
(plus any prefix or suffix data feed use for continuous contracts, backward adjusted continuous,...)
RTH are the primary month codes.
ETH codes, secondary,
are used for whatever reason when the primary code is not sufficient.
Example:
RTH could be used for the pit session (RTH Real Trade Hours, vs. ETH Electronic Trade Hours)
or for contracts more than 9 years forward when the usual syntax only use 1 digit for the year of the contract.
Month RTH ETH
January F A
February G B
March H C
April J D
May K E
June M I
July N L
August Q O
September U P
October V R
November X S
December Z T
Cash Y


Standards and drafts of: ISO/TC 68/SC 4 Securities and related financial instruments

With thanks to the EOS - Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control here are some references to international norms for securities and related fiancial instruments:
The document is dated 2001-04-30 but provides an extensive list of standards.
Standards and drafts of:
ISO/TC 68/SC 4 Securities and related financial instruments

ISO 6166:2001 Securities and related financial instruments -- International securities identification numbering system (ISIN)
ISO 6536:1981 Bank operations -- Standard scheme for drawing lists
ISO/AWI 8109 Banking and related financial services -- Securities -- Format of Eurobonds
ISO 8109:1990 Banking and related financial services -- Securities -- Format of Eurobonds
ISO 8532:1995 Securities -- Format for transmission of certificate numbers
ISO 9019:1995 Securities -- Numbering of certificates
ISO 9144:1991 Securities -- Optical character recognition line -- Position and structure
ISO/WD 9144 Securities -- Optical character recognition line -- Position and structure
ISO 10383:1992 Codes for exchanges and regulated markets -- Market identifier codes (MIC)
ISO/WD 10383 Codes for exchanges and regulated markets -- Market identifier codes (MIC)
ISO 10962 Securities and related financial instruments -- Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI code)
ISO 10962:1997 Securities -- Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI code)
ISO 10962:1997/Cor 1:1997 No title
ISO 15022-1:1999 Securities -- Scheme for messages (Data Field Dictionary) -- Part 1: Data field and message design rules and guidelines
ISO 15022-1:1999/Cor 1:1999 .
ISO 15022-2:1999 Securities -- Scheme for messages (Data Field Dictionary) -- Part 2: Maintenance of the Data Field Dictionary and Catalogue of Messages
ISO 15022-2:1999/Cor 1:1999 .
ISO/WD 17237 Securities and related financial instruments -- Delivery and appearance code
ISO/WD 17238 Securities and related financlal instruments -- Industry sector classification reference (ISCR)
ISO/WD 18773-1 Securities and related financlal instruments -- Abbreviations -- Part 1: Financial instrument types and characteristics
ISO/WD 18773-2 Securities and related financlal instruments -- Abbreviations -- Part 2: Issuer names
ISO/WD 18774 Securities and related financlal instruments -- Financlal instruments short description


Defines:
ISIN :: CFI :: MIC :: ISCR et al.

The same site provides what we always wanted to know but were afraid to ask, a table of the stage code of the international system:

International harmonized stage code system

STAGE

SUB-STAGE

00

20

60

90
Decision

Registration

Start of main action

Completion of main action

92
Repeat an earlier phase

93
Repeat current phase

98
Abandon

99
Proceed

00

Preliminary stage

00.00

Proposal for new project received

00.20

Proposal for new project under review

00.60
Review summary circulated

00.98
Proposal for new project abandoned

00.99
Approval to ballot proposal for new project

10>Proposal stage

10.00
Proposal for new project registered

10.20
New project ballot initiated

10.60
Voting summary circulated

10.92
Proposal returned to submitter for further definition

10.98
New project rejected

10.99
New project approved

20
Preparatory stage

20.00
New project registered in TC/SC work programme

20.20
Working draft (WD) study initiated

20.60
Comments summary circulated

20.98
Project deleted

20.99
WD approved for registration as CD

30
Committee stage

30.00
Committee draft (CD) registered

30.20
CD study/ballot initiated

30.60
Comments/ voting summary circulated

30.92
CD referred back to Working Group

30.98
Project deleted

30.99
CD approved for registration as DIS

40
Enquiry stage

40.00
DIS registered

40.20
DIS ballot initiated:
5 months

40.60
Voting summary dispatched

40.92
Full report circulated: DIS referred back to TC or SC

40.93
Full report circulated: decision for new DIS ballot

40.98
Project deleted

40.99
Full report circulated: DIS approved for registration as FDIS

50
Approval stage

50.00
FDIS registered for formal approval

50.20
FDIS ballot initiated: 2 months. Proof sent to secretariat

50.60
Voting summary dispatched. Proof returned by secretariat

50.92
FDIS referred back to TC or SC

50.98
Project deleted

50.99
FDIS approved for publication

60
Publication stage

60.00
International Standard under publication

60.60
International Standard published

90

Review
stage

90.20
International Standard under periodical review

90.60
Review summary dispatched

90.92
International Standard to be revised

90.93
International Standard confirmed

90.99
Withdrawal of International Standard proposed by TC or SC

95
Withdrawal stage

95.20
Withdrawal ballot initiated

95.60
Voting summary dispatched

95.92
Decision not to withdraw International Standard

95.99
Withdrawal of International Standard

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