Periodically, amendments must be made to ISO 4217:2015 and these are managed by the Secretariat of the Maintenance Agency, in this case the SIX Financial Information AG on behalf of the Swiss Association for Standardization, SNV.

ISO 4217:2015 also describes historical codes in List 3, as well as the codes representing certain funds in List 2. Where possible, the three-digit numeric code is the same as the numeric country code.įor currencies having minor units, ISO 4217:2015 also shows the relationship between the minor unit and the currency itself (i.e. The three-digit numeric code is useful when currency codes need to be understood in countries that do not use Latin scripts and for computerized systems. The Swiss franc is represented by CHF – the CH being the code for Switzerland in the ISO 3166 code and F for franc.The US dollar is represented as USD – the US coming from the ISO 3166 country code and the D for dollar.The first two letters of the ISO 4217 three-letter code are the same as the code for the country name, and, where possible, the third letter corresponds to the first letter of the currency name.

The alphabetic code is based on another ISO standard, ISO 3166, which lists the codes for country names.

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