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GLEIF – Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation

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Legal Entity Identifier Services by GLEIF

Business moves at the speed of trust. Accelerate yours with the vLEI

The vLEI has transformed the nature of identity management. It has made the verification of person-to-entity and entity-to-entity interactions instant and secure while maintaining data privacy and confidentiality. Join the future of digital organizational identity.

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The LEI in cross-border payments

When the LEI is added as a data attribute in cross-border payment messages, any originator or beneficiary can be precisely and instantly identified. This makes the payment process faster, cheaper, more transparent, and more inclusive.

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One global identity behind every business

GLEIF Mission

GLEIF manages a network of partners, the LEI issuing organizations, to provide trusted services and open, reliable data for unique legal entity identification worldwide. GLEIF services ensure the operational integrity of the Global LEI System.

Our Vision

GLEIF believes that each business worldwide should have only one global identity. This identity should include a digital identity. Having an LEI will help to achieve this objective. Taking advantage of the Global LEI Index empowers market participants to cut costs, simplify and accelerate operations and gain deeper insight into the global market place.

Governance Structure

The LEI initiative is driven by the Group of 20 and the Financial Stability Board (FSB). Created by the FSB in 2014, GLEIF is a supra-national, not-for-profit organization tasked to manage the only open, non-proprietary legal entity identification system designed as a public good.

GLEIF Activities and News

GLEIF Data Quality Reports Date: 2024-12-06 Latest LEI Data Quality Reports Published
GLEIF Blog Date: 2024-12-18 Building a Resilient Digital Economy: The Power of Standardized Organizational Identity

In an increasingly digitalized world, cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated. With all critical infrastructure relying heavily on third-party ICT service providers, enabling the consistent and unambiguous identification of these providers through standardized, verifiable organizational identifiers is key to ensuring trust and cyber resilience. The European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) marks an important regulatory precedent that addresses this challenge for the financial sector and should be adopted globally to secure all digital ecosystems worldwide.