Reuters Instrument Code (RIC)

ID ric

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

A Reuters instrument code, or RIC, is a ticker-like code used by Refinitiv to identify financial instruments and indices. The codes are used for looking up information on various Refinitiv financial information networks (such as Refinitiv Real Time) and appear to have developed from the Quotron service purchased in the 1980s.

Categories: Finances and banking
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
FIBO: Refinitiv instrument code (RIC)
Quality: 80/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: Collibra Data Classification

Regular expression

[A-Z0-9.]{1,16}

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

Examples

Value	Description
IBM.N	IBM being traded on the New York Stock Exchang
IBM.L	IBM being traded on London Stock Exchange

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters_Instrument_Code

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