In this TabbFORUM article on industry collaboration around OTC ISINs, Malavika Solanki examines the role that industry plays in the DSB’s product-related decision making and sets out how participants can stay abreast of developments or actively contribute to the evolution of the DSB’s dataset. https://tabbforum.com/opinions/industry-collaboration-grows-on-isins

Create Trends – Q4 2018 saw a small uptick in ISIN creation activity.     OTC ISIN creation by asset class and instrument is set out below.   Search Trends – trends remain consistent with prior months, but this time we also provide insight into the types of institutions searching for OTC ISIN records via […]

December saw a higher number of interest rate OTC derivatives reported to FIRDS for reference data purposes, driven mostly by an increase in reporting by venues. Most other trends held constant with only one new MIC (a SI) being added to the existing list. As with prior months, there is little reference data reporting for […]