Talk:National Securities Identifying Number

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German NNA

In Germany, the NNA is Wertpapier-Mitteilungen, the German securities clearing and deposit bank, and the NSIN is the Kassenverein.

Wertpapier-Mitteilungen is NOT a securities clearing and deposit bank and they will not issue any NSINs anymore beginning from June 25th, 2007. The WKN is not a NSIN. And the NSIN is NOT the Kassenverein.

So I've deleted the sentence.

Incorrect nine-digit number

The article says that an NSIN is a generic nine-digit number.

It's not true to say that it is always a number. For example, in Australia the ISIN code for ADAMUS RESOURCES, ORDINARY FULLY PAID SHARES, is AU000000ADU5 - so the NSIN is 000000ADU, which is clearly not a number. There are many more examples in the ISINs file from the Australian Stock Exchange at http://www.asx.com.au/programs/ISIN.xls .

So I suggest changing the first sentence from: a generic 9-digit number, to: a generic 9-character code. But I'll leave this to someone else more confident in the subject area.

TC 203.122.223.121 (talk) 02:01, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]