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Securities Database

The Securities Database collects data on financial instruments issued or traded by Italian residents. Such data are used for statistical and supervision reports to Banca d'Italia.

In addition to financial instruments data, the Securities Database contains data on Italian and foreign companies (the latter known as counterparties) whether they are issuers of financial instruments or subject to statistical/supervision reports or to special fulfilments due to anti-money laundering regulation.

Securities are identified by the ISIN code (International Securities Identification Number) which is allocated in accordance with ISO 6166 standard rules. These specify numbering criteria and determine the competent Agency for ISIN allocation.

Banca d'Italia is the competent National Numbering Agency for Italian financial instruments, as of 1st January 2008, after absorbing Ufficio Italiano dei Cambi, which had performed such task from 01.01.1991. As such, Banca d'Italia is a member of A.N.N.A. (Association of National Numbering Agencies). Data obtained through numbering activity are collected in the Securities Database, which is therefore the only complete and official source for Italian ISIN codes.

In the Securities Database foreign organisatios are identified by an internal code, the so-called "UIC code"; Italian companies are instead identified by fiscal code.

In order to retrieve data and ISIN codes allocated by other Agencies, Banca d'Italia co-operates with foreign competent Agencies.

Please note that the Isin coding system does not give any guarantee for the existence, lawfulness and actual validity of the financial instrument. Moreover, the Isin coding does not imply any assessment of the lawfulness of the financial operation, the issuer's credit risk and the assets backing of the financial instrument.