The DSB has adopted the ISO Currency Code list (ISO 4217) for all currency attributes. To accommodate offshore currencies, the DSB has introduced ‘Place of Settlement’ (ISO 3166) as an additional attribute in the FX Non-Standard Product Definitions. This allows an offshore location to be input against an onshore currency for example to recognise CNH, […]

Where required the DSB has implemented normalization rules over the attributes to ensure that a single ISIN can be generated for any combination of attribute values that constitute the same instrument. For all normalization rules please refer to our DSB Product Definitions document published here

The DSB is bound by open data principles meaning that all data submitted, used and made publicly available by the DSB must be free from any Intellectual Property restrictions. The Index enumerations provided within each asset class are in the form of the legal long name provided in an enumerated list and the contents comply […]

The DSB has sourced the list of Floating Rate Indices from FpML, specifically the following schema: https://www.fpml.org/spec/coding-scheme/fpml-schemes.html#s5.91 The DSB is aligned with the FpML change process and cannot independently amend or add to the dataset. The DSB will work with industry and the index provider in the pursuit of enhancing the source enumerations in a […]

The DSB has sourced the enumerated list from ESMA’s Transitional Transparency reporting data exercise that consolidated Index names traded and submitted by EU Trading Venues. This list is free from any IPR issues and is in compliance with our open data principles. Unfortunately, there are no market identifiers provided and industry will be required to […]

The DSB has sourced the Index names from IHSMarkit and are published as the legal long name. This list is free from any IPR issues and is in compliance with our open data principles. The DSB is aligned with the IHSMarkit change process and cannot independently amend or add to the dataset. The DSB will […]

The DSB has sourced the Commodities Reference Rate from ISDA 2.0 2015 taxonomy. This list is free from any IPR issues and is in compliance with our open data principles. The DSB is aligned with the ISDA change process and cannot independently amend or add to the dataset. The DSB will work with industry and […]

The Commodity Base Product/Sub-Product/Additional Sub-Product is defined by RTS 23 Regulation and will be the hierarchy that is put into the Production environment.

The values in this field are determined by the technical standard and there are no changes scheduled in the short term. The value of T – Term will be considered as part of the scheduled changes to EMIR in late 2018 to align with CPMI-IOSCO. For instances where the enumerations are not relevant, the suggestion […]

A Proprietary Index workflow was created in order to facilitate the creation of OTC ISINs with proprietary indices as underlying. The relevant documentation can be found here. ‘Underlying Instrument Index Prop’ is the specific attribute field used for the Proprietary Index that has been submitted by users as defined in the workflow document. On submission […]