ISO currency codes. World Currencies Codes.

As you know, ISO – it’s International Organization for Standardization. In this section of our Forex blog you’ll see ISO’s currency codes, which are based on the ISO country codes are published in the standard ISO 4217:2008. SIX Interbank Clearing Ltd acts as the ISO 4217 Maintenance Agency on behalf of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and its Swiss member SNV (Swiss Association for Standardization).

ISO currency codes.

Most codes are composed of the country’s two-character country code, and the first character of the national currency name.

Here you can find complete list of Currencies by Countries, International Currencies, currency names and currency codes, ISO 4217 alphabetic code, numeric code, foreign currency, Currency Symbols and Unicode values of all Currencies around the world.

ISO standard also defines the relationship between the Major currency unit and any Minor currency unit.

As you can see, currency codes are a three letter abbreviation which identify the currency of a country. In addition to processing applications for currencies codes, the maintenance agency maintains an updated list of codes assigned to currency authorities and makes the contents of this list available on request.

Also you have to know that ISO 4217 includes codes for not only currencies, but also codes for precious metals: gold, silver, palladium and platinum. As a result, the list of codes must be updated from time to time.

List of Different World ISO Currencies Codes.

World Currencies Codes.