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Legal Entity Identifier Services by GLEIF

LEI Search

The Global LEI Index is the only global online source for open, standardized and high quality legal entity reference data. Any interested party can easily access and search the complete Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) data pool using the web-based search tool developed by GLEIF.

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LEI Statistics

GLEIF makes available key facts, figures and statistics on the global LEI population via interactive graphs and a world map drill down. Get insight at a glance on data such as the total number of LEIs issued to date or the number of LEIs issued in individual countries.

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LEI Challenge

The GLEIF central challenge facility is available for LEI Search and provides any interested party with the opportunity to trigger the verification and, where required, speedy update of LEI records including related relationship information.

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AI agents are initiating payments. On whose authority?

A new GLEIF working paper sets out how a counterparty can computationally verify the organization behind an AI agent, the authority delegated to it, and the limits of that authority. Payment scenarios show what the infrastructure has to support.

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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

Empowering global trust and transparency through open, digital, and verifiable organizational identity

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Our Vision

One Verifiable, Global Identity Behind Every Business - We envision a future where every business has a single trusted global identity – the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) – hardwired into all relationships and transactions.

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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.

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GLEIF Activities and News

GLEIF Data Quality Reports Date: 2026-08-07 Latest LEI Data Quality Reports Published
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GLEIF Blog Date: 2026-09-01 When AI agents transact, who stands behind them? Why verifiable organizational identity is critical to agentic payments

Businesses everywhere are rapidly increasing their dependence on AI agents. Happily, the legal principles that assign responsibility remain robust. What’s missing is the infrastructure to prove, at machine speed, which organization stands behind an agent and who authorized it to act. Drawing on a new GLEIF discussion paper on agentic AI in payments, this explores how a trust layer of verifiable organizational identity addresses the issue.

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