Datatypes

Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI)

ID figi

The Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) (formerly Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID)) is an open standard, unique identifier of financial instruments that can be assigned to instruments including common stock, options, derivatives, futures, corporate and government bonds, municipals, currencies, and mortgage products.

Categories

Finances and banking

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

python-stdnum

stdnum.figi

FIBO

financial instrument global identifier (FIGI)

Quality

80/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)

• figifield field, common/crossborder_finance.yaml
• figivalue data, common/crossborder_finance.yaml

Supported by tools

DataPrep, metacrafter, python-stdnum

Regular expression

[A-Z0-9]{12}

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Examples

Sources

• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Instrument_Global_Identifier
• other: https://www.omg.org/figi/

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/figi
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/finances/figi.yaml on GitHub