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 East Asian and Oceanian Stock Exchanges Federation (EAOSEF), which currently comprises 15 stock exchanges, originated in 1982 as an informal organization called the East Asian Stock Exchanges Conference (EASEC). Its objectives were to promote friendship and to facilitate the exchange of information among member exchanges.

Later, in 1990, the organization was enlarged by the addition of stock exchanges from the Oceanic region. It was at this time that the organization adopted a formal constitution and reorganized itself as an official international federation of stock exchanges called EAOSEF.

In 1998, in recognition of the rapid developments in communications as well as in the financial markets, EAOSEF decided to increase its responsiveness by establishing a task organization. After a thorough study of members' responses to a questionnaire and full deliberation by the working group and the General Assembly, EAOSEF revised its Charter and altered the basis of its membership system from a country-based one to the more liberalized exchange-based system that it has today. At the same time, a standing committee of the federation was also established.

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.