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If you are involved in issuing or trading securities, you are familiar with CUSIP numbers, the ninedigit alphanumeric codes that identify specific securities in the United States and Canada. What you ...

Cusip Global Services (CGS) says it will make its new business entity identifier database available for free to users from the beginning of next month. The Standard & Poor's unit's new code, known as ...

Think of it as a stock's bar code number. A CUSIP number is a security's identifying number, not unlike a product's catalog or bar code number. Its nine digits are assigned by Committee on Uniform ...