ANNA Newsletter July, 2025

Dear Reader,

In this newsletter we take a moment to reflect on key achievements for ANNA across the first half of this year, whilst also looking ahead to upcoming activities, events and priorities for the remainder of 2025. 

Most prominently, earlier this year we enhanced access functionality to the ANNA Service Bureau and upgraded all related online informational materials. A campaign highlighting the depth and market benefits of the ASB’s referential instrument data followed, helping us earn industry recognition, with ANNA winning “Best Reference Data Provider” at the prestigious Waters Technology Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards 2025. 

Recently, the ANNA-DTIF partnership also received further recognition, having been shortlisted as a finalist for the “Best Data Solution for Digital Assets” at the A-Team Data Management Insights Awards USA 2025. In Digital Assets we continue our strong alignment with Global Digital Finance (GDF). In February, ANNA and the DTIF were invited to provide insights for the GDF Annual Report. 

With respect to market developments, more than 126 million ISINs have now been assigned by NNAs and reported to the ASB—with March 2025 recording a strong 1.8 million new ISINs allocated for the month. 

At our General Meeting (GM) in Croatia in June, we were delighted to re-elect Torsten Ulrich, Senior Advisor at WM Gruppe-WM Datenservice, and Laura Stanley, Director of Entity Data and Symbology at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), to our Board of Directors. It is a great honour to have their continued guidance and we are certainly deeply grateful for their commitment, market insight and ongoing support of standards adoption across the industry.

The GM also confirmed the transition of the Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) and E-Trading Software (ETS) from partner status to full membership, thus enabling them with full voting rights and bringing ANNA’s total full membership to 115.

We have also been very active across the global industry event circuit, with ANNA sponsorship, panel representation and advocacy efforts at events throughout Europe, North America and Asia. Looking ahead, we remain focused on championing the promotion and adoption of interoperable standards across both established and emerging markets.

It’s been a fast-paced period marked by some significant achievements and milestones for ANNA.
As always, we thank our members for their continued engagement and we look forward to a productive and dynamic second half of the year!

We sincerely hope you enjoy this edition.    

Best wishes,
Stephan Dreyer
Managing Director, ANNA

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INDUSTRY UPDATES

A blog exploring how ISINs, and the complementary nature of the entire identifier standards system, continue to contribute to a more stable and efficient global financial ecosystem.

A blog, drawn from Vice Chair Laura Stanley’s keynote at our General Meeting in Split, Croatia, emphasizing the crucial role of harmonized standards in capital markets.

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MARKET UPDATES

In conjunction with the Korea Exchange Trade Repository’s Rules and Regulations Team the DSB hosted a webinar to outline the UPI the Unique  Service-the webinar was translated live into live into Korean for those preparing for UPI regulatory reporting in South Korea from 27 October 2025.

Guiding the evolution of the DSB’s technology and operations to ensure its strategy aligns with the needs of the markets, the first TAC meeting of 2025 took place in March.

In Q1 API access to the ASB became available and we updated published information on how subscribers can easily access consolidated, aggregated, and validated datasets from the ASB.

Our 2nd board meeting of 2025 took place at the beginning of April at our office in Brussels-as ever, this was a productive session to set out the ongoing plans and strategies for growth.

In April the DSB invited industry experts to join the DSB Product Committee (PC). The DSB’s PC advises the DSB on how to define, maintain, enhance and govern OTC derivative products.

Ahead of the Canadian UPI mandate on 25 July 2025, the DSB hosted a webinar to outline the UPI Service. They covered the identifier’s history and purpose, onboarding, connectivity, and user support. Michael Brady, Deputy Director at the British Columbia Securities Commission, gave the opening remarks.

Following the publication of the 2025 annual Industry Consultation, the DSB Management Team hosted a webinar, covering the key consultation topics and a Q&A on the proposals.

You can see all the latest ANNA updates by visiting the ANNA website. You can also stay up to date by following ANNA on X and Linkedin.