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Re: Indian Exchange code
Shakir Kagzi / Financial Technologies India Ltd
20 May 2009 4:45AM ET

> > In India, there are multiple exchanges of Equity and Derivatives. The
> > exchange codes for National Stock Exchange (NS) and Bombay Stock
> > Exchange (BO) are defined. I would like to know the exchange codes for
> > the following Exchnages:
> > 1) Multi-Commodity Exchange - MCX
> > 2) Currency exchange of MCX - MCXSX
> > 3) National Commodity & Derivative Exchange - NCDEX
> >
> > What is the process of adding new exchanges in FIX Exchange codes?
>
> First off, for FIX 4.3 and above, FPL doesn't assign exchange codes at
> all; these are ISO MIC codes, which are the ISO 10383 standard. The list
> of MIC codes, as well as forms for requesting new MIC codes if they
> don't exist, are available at this URL:
>
> http://www.iso15022.org/MIC/homepageMIC.htm
>
> For FIX 4.2 and below, FIX uses Reuters exchange codes, and we assign
> numeric codes for any exchanges that don't have Reuters codes assigned.
> These are listed here:
>
> http://fixprotocol.org/specifications/exchanges.shtml
>
> There is a second tab for the numeric FPL-assigned exchange codes.
>
> Requests for numeric exchange codes can be made to
> fpl@fixprotocol.org, however we request that someone from the exchange
> itself makes the request.

Thanks Ryan for the information.

Currently we are on Fix 4.2 and therefore was looking on for the Reuter's code. The required list of exchanges are not available in the link provided. I had already verified the same before raising the query.

Shakir.


Indian Exchange code
Shakir Kagzi / Financial Technologies India Ltd   18 May 2009 3:21AM ET
Re: Indian Exchange code
Ryan Pierce (FPL Technical Director) / FIX Protocol Ltd.   18 May 2009 9:56AM ET
Re: Indian Exchange code
Shakir Kagzi / Financial Technologies India Ltd   20 May 2009 4:45AM ET
Re: Indian Exchange code
Aditya Khandekar / Merrill Lynch   24 Jun 2009 7:34PM ET