ISO 4217 the ISO 4217 names). These codes were first introduced in December 1988 after a request from the reinsurance sector was accepted ISO 4217 ISO 4217 is a standard first published by International Organization for Standardization in 1978, which delineates currency designators, country codes (alpha and numeric), and references to minor units in three tables: The tables, history and ongoing discussion are maintained by SIX Interbank Clearing on behalf of ISO and the Swiss Association for Standardization. The ISO 4217 code list is used in banking and business globally. In many countries the ISO codes for the more common currencies are
ISO/TC 37 are closely linked to the standardization efforts of IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, founded in 1906) and ISO (International Organization for Standardization, founded in 1946). A terminology standard according to ISO/IEC Guide 2 (1996) is defined as "standard that is concerned with terms, usually accompanied by their definitions, and sometimes by explanatory notes, illustrations, examples, etc." ISO 1087-1:2000 defines terminology as ""set of designations belonging to one special language" and designations as "representation of a concept by a sign which denotes it"." Here, concept representation goes beyond terms (being only linguistic signs), which is also supported by the state-of-the-art of terminology