CUSIP Number Law and Legal Definition
According to 31 CFR 356.2 [Title 31 -- Money and Finance: Treasury; Subtitle B -- Regulations Relating to Money and Finance; Chapter II -- Fiscal Service, Department of the Treasury; Subchapter B -- Bureau of the Public Debt; Part 356 -- Sale and Issue of Marketable Book-Entry Treasury Bills, Notes and Bonds (Department of the Treasury Circular, Public Debt Series No. 1-93); Subpart A -- General Information], CUSIP number means “the unique identifying number assigned to each separate security issue and each separate STRIPS component. CUSIP numbers are provided by the CUSIP Service Bureau of Standard & Poor's Corporation. CUSIP is an acronym for Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures.”
