The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) was founded in February 1992 in Brussels, Belgium to promote and maintain the ISO 6166 standard and to distribute ISINs among its members and the global financial community.

The organization's objectives include:

1. To make available to its members and the securities industry as a whole, an International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) in a uniform structure for use in any application in the trading and administration of securities in the international securities industry.
2. To implement and maintain the international standard ISO 6166 as confirmed by the ISO Council which has recently approved the designation of ANNA as the registration authority for ISO 6166.
3. To elaborate and maintain internal guidelines enabling the various ANNA members to adhere to the same general procedure for the creation, modification or deletion of ISINs.
4. To operate, maintain and develop the Global ISIN Access Mechanism (GIAM) for the international identification of securities.
5. To organise workshops promoting ISO 6166 and to take all necessary steps to assist the countries where a National Numbering Agency is going to be created.
6. To implement and maintain the international standard ISO 10962(Classification for Financial Instruments).
7. To elaborate and maintain guidelines to enable ANNA members and the securities industry worldwide to adhere to the same general procedure for creation and allocation of the CFI codes.

The Philippine Stock Exchange was conferred member on 15 November 1999.

The Asian and Oceanian Stock Exchanges Federation (AOSEF), which is currently composed of 19 stock exchanges, originated in 1982 as an informal organization called the East Asian Stock Exchanges Conference (EASEC). It was first conceived as an organization to promote closer ties between the region’s exchanges and cooperation among them.

The organization expanded with the addition of stock exchanges from the Oceanic region, and in 1990, the East Asian Oceania Stock Exchanges Federation (EAOSEF) was founded as an official international federation of stock exchanges. The newly founded group simultaneously adopted a formal constitution, and in 1998, a working committee was also established to increase the organization’s responsiveness and serve as the standing work force of AOSEF.

With the addition of more members over the years and to better reflect the composition of the federation, EAOSEF changed its name and charter in 2005 to become the AOSEF. The amended charter included a provision to expand the federation’s geographical boundary, which allowed two Indian stock exchanges to become members of AOSEF.

As was true of other multilateral financial organizations, the need for international cooperation among stock exchanges was first felt in the 1930s. The International Chamber of Commerce, based in Paris, took the initiative to create an International Bureau of Stock Exchanges, which existed until World War II.

After the war, it was not until 1957 that the first major steps towards international cooperation between stock exchanges took place, and in May of that year, representatives of several European bourses met in Paris. Four years of informal co-operation followed, after which the participants chose to institutionalize this work in the form of a federation, and this was done in London in 1961. Since that time, the Federation Internationale des Bourses de Valeurs (FIBV) has grown constantly. Over the time, the businesses run by members came to include derivative markets, clearing houses, settlement agencies and other financial services. In 2001, the General Assembly voted to change the name to The World Federation of Exchanges.

The World Federation of Exchanges is the trade organization for regulated securities and derivative markets, settlement institutions and related clearing houses, and their diverse services to capital markets. Its purpose is to facilitate the representation, development of organized and regulated markets, and to meet the needs of evolving capital markets in the best interest of their users.

Sharing of business experience and knowledge among FIBV member exchanges is critical to the development of the industry, even as financial market operators offer services in an increasingly competitive environment.