The Financial Instruments Reference Database System (FIRDS) is published by the

European Securities and Markets Authority The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is an agency of the European Union located in Paris. ESMA replaced the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) on 1 January 2011. It is one of three European Supervisory Authori ...

(ESMA) and lists meta-information to all

financial instrument Financial instruments are monetary contracts between parties. They can be created, traded, modified and settled. They can be cash (currency), evidence of an ownership, interest in an entity or a contractual right to receive or deliver in the form ...

s included in the scope of

MiFID II Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 20142014/65/EU commonly known as MiFID 2), is a directive of the European Union (EU). Together with Regulation No 600/2014 it provides a legal framework for securities markets, investment intermediari ...

. This reference data is necessary to find metadata on a given financial instrument, uniquely identified by a so-called

International Securities Identification Number An International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) is a code that uniquely identifies a security globally for the purposes of facilitating clearing, reporting and settlement of trades. Its structure is defined in ISO 6166. The ISIN code ...

(ISIN).

Regulation

The Article 4(1)(20) of Directive 2014/65/EU (MiFID II) considers "investment firms dealing on own account when executing client orders over the counter (OTC) on an organised, frequent, systematic and substantial basis" ''systematic internaliser'' and requires them to report their trades. From this data, ESMA computes on a best effort basis, the total volume and number of transactions executed within the EU.

Technical details

According to the technical specification, new entries are published on a daily basis, every morning by 09:00 CET as XML-file. It contains the

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and the Market Identifier Code (MIC) as well as e.g. the Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI)-code and other information of the instrument. The

Legal Entity Identifier The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a unique global identifier for legal entities participating in financial transactions. Also known as an LEI code or LEI number, its purpose is to help identify legal entities on a globally accessible database. L ...

(LEI) code is conveyed by the ISSR. In the following example record in

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format, the ISSR is represented by "Issr" : "851WYGNLUQLFZBSYGB56". This LEI code can be looked up using th
website search
The LEI code corresponds to

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(Frankfurt) according to the LEI Registration Exception.

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FIRDS Format Description
Financial metadata {{Finance-stub

Regulation

Technical details

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