ISIN Availability for CME and Other Futures Contracts

Summary

The document answers whether a trader can look up identifiers for current or expired futures, using an S&P 500 contract as an example. Its main point is that CME generally does not assign ISINs to its futures, so an ISIN lookup is not available for those contracts through the exchange.

Practices differ elsewhere: some exchanges assign one ISIN to a futures class shared across expiries. The answer does not provide a lookup method or discuss how to identify individual contracts when no ISIN exists. Its guidance is limited to the general distinction between CME and some other exchanges; availability should be checked for the specific venue and product.

Key ideas

• CME generally does not assign ISINs to futures contracts.
• Some other exchanges assign a shared ISIN to a futures class across expiries.
• The document does not provide a method for retrieving identifiers for past CME contracts.

Tags

# Finding ISIN of current/past futures


# Finding ISIN of current/past futures












Where can I find the ISIN of futures on say SP500 eg ESM20? Is there a way to retrieve ISINs for past futures contracts?

## Answer by Dimitri Vulis (score 3, accepted)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/53788

In general, no one assigns ISINs to CME futures.

One some other exchanges, an ISIN is assigned to the entire class of futures with different expiries.

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