ISO 4217 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 so well known publicly that exchange rates published in newspapers or posted in banks use only these to delineate the currencies,
International Organization for Standardization end-users of products and services, ensuring that certified products conform to the minimum standards set internationally. The three official languages of the ISO are English, French, and Russian. The name of the organization in French is ', and in Russian, ('). "ISO" is not an acronym. The organization adopted "ISO" as its abbreviated name in reference to the Greek word "" (, meaning "equal"), as its name in the three official languages would have different acronyms. During the founding meetings of the new organization, the Greek word explanation was not invoked, so this meaning may have been made public later.