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FINOS Financial Objects Program Documentation
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Further clarification of Instrument Dictionary IDs #30

Open donbasuno opened 4 years ago

donbasuno commented 4 years ago

Originally brought up by @lspiro-Tick42 during an FDC3 call.

While ISIN, SEDOL etc might be somewhat self-explanatory, it would be beneficial if we could specify further what exactly what data items should be used for the different ID types. Eg "BBG" doesn't really clarify if it should be the "Bloomberg Terminal Symbol" or the "BPod Symbol".

Ideally I think these items should be specified by the provider or owner of the individual symbology scheme but as a start I think it makes sense if we document our thoughts and thus drive adoption and standardization that way.

A great topic for our next call and for us to form a subgroup to focus on this.