ISO 20022 · Financial instrument identification type
FIGIFinancial Instrument Global Identifier
Published definition
A Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) is a unique, persistent twelve character string that serves to identify financial instruments across asset classes at the venue level. It is associated with one Composite ID.
Code set and usage
Financial instrument identification type contains 24 registered codes. Its exact identifier is ExternalFinancialInstrumentIdentificationType1Code.
Specifies the external financial instrument identification type scheme name code in the format of character string with a maximum length of 4 characters. The list of valid codes is an external code list published separately. External code sets can be downloaded from www.iso20022.org.
Use the code with the applicable message version and implementation guide. A matching code value alone does not establish the same meaning in another set.