Organization and Committee Engagement

I herewith confirm that I read, understood and accepted the privacy policy. I hereby confirm that data which I typed and clicked might be sent to social network owners and saved and electronically processed by them.

Ayra – Transitional Board Ecosystem Member

Ayra is enabling the growth of safe, secure, interoperable, and sustainable digital trust ecosystems that connect and enrich our world. GLEIF is a Founding Member and the first not-for-profit member.

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) - Principal Member

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the National Standard Body of India, established under the BIS Act, 2016, for the harmonious development of standardization, marking, and quality certification of goods, and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BIS is actively involved in developing standards in the field of Digital Signatures through a panel of experts created by the IT and IT-enabled Services Sectional Committee, SSD10, and GLEIF is contributing as one of the expert members in this Panel. The composition of this Panel is available here on the BIS website.

Corporate Registers Forum (CRF) – Associate Member

The Corporate Registers Forum (CRF) is an international association of government agencies and officials responsible for administering corporate registers, such as company registries. Its main objective is to promote cooperation, knowledge exchange, and best practices among its members, helping to modernize and elevate standards for business registries worldwide. GLEIF has joined the Corporate Registers Forum as an associate member. This membership strengthens our collaboration with business registers worldwide and supports our shared goal of building a trusted digital identity for legal entities.

Digital ID & Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) – Sustaining Member

DIACC is a strategic alliance of Canada’s leading public- and private-sector organizations advancing digital trust and verification. DIACC’s mission is to advance the adoption of digital trust through initiatives that inform and validate private-sector services, enable privacy-protecting, trusted exchanges between private- and public-sector authorities, and foster a robust digital ecosystem. GLEIF is a proud non-profit sustaining member of DIACC, supporting its mission to advance the adoption of digital trust.

Decentralized Identifier Foundation (DIF) – Contributor

DIF is an engineering-driven organization focused on developing the foundational elements needed to establish an open ecosystem for decentralized identity and to ensure interoperability among all participants. GLEIF has joined the Creative Assertions Working Group, a joint effort with Trust over IP (ToIP).

EDM Association – Member

EDM Association (formerly the EDM Council) is the world’s largest industry association dedicated to advancing trusted data, analytics, and technology standards. With more than 350 member organizations across financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, telecom, public sector, and technology, EDM Association provides globally recognized data management frameworks, standards, technical specifications, and professional certification programs that enable organizations to innovate with confidence. GLEIF is a participating member of the EDM Association.

Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA) – Member

The Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA) is a premier membership organization uniting innovative businesses across the Asia-Pacific payments ecosystem, including HSBC, IBM, Amazon, and PayPal. EPAA leverages its diverse member base, policy connections, thought-leader community, and international task-force seats to deliver industry-shaping discussions, think tanks, task forces, and networking events. These initiatives provide member insights, new industry frameworks, and policy submission papers. Its tight-knit community amplifies the voice in payments, connects business opportunities, and drives innovation to reshape the financial payments landscape in the Asia Pacific. GLEIF is a participating member of the EPAA.

ERC3643 Association – Member

The ERC3643 Association is a non-profit organization uniting industry leaders to promote the global adoption of the ERC-3643 token standard for real-world asset tokenization. By fostering collaboration, innovation, and interoperability, it aims to establish a secure, compliant framework that unlocks the full potential of tokenization for a more inclusive and efficient financial ecosystem. GLEIF collaborates with ERC3643 to promote standards for asset tokenization.

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) – Full Member

ETSI is one of only three bodies officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards Organization (ESO). It is an independent body dedicated to ICT standardization across all sectors of industry and society, which offers an open and inclusive environment for members representing large and small private companies, research institutions, academia, governments, and public organizations. By becoming a full member of ETSI, GLEIF contributes to the development of globally applicable ICT standards and ensures that Legal Entity Identifiers remain embedded in the trusted digital infrastructure of the future.

EU Digital Identity Wallet Consortium – Associated Partner

The EU Digital Wallet Consortium (EWC) is a joint effort to leverage the benefits of the proposed EU digital identity, in the form of Digital Travel Credentials, across the Member States. The EWC intends to build on the Reference Wallet Application to enable a use case focused on Digital Travel Credentials. We expect this use case to require multiple Electronic Attestations of Attributes and Credentials, as well as the involvement of both the private and public sectors. GLEIF has joined the consortium to explore the vLEI's compliance with the EUDI wallet.

Eurofiling Foundation – Board Member

Eurofiling provides a collaborative environment, since 2005, an open meeting place for Regulators, Supervisors, and Entities from both the public and private sector, such as financial institutions, providers, academic and private individuals, around the following central theme: European and National Regulatory Reporting and the financial ecosystem; improving collaboration and awareness to leverage interoperability; together. GLEIF regularly provides information on how to leverage the LEI and the verifiable LEI (vLEI) to support Eurofiling’s mission.

Fintech Convergence Council (FCC) – Contributor

The Fintech Convergence Council (FCC) was established in 2018 under the aegis of IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India). FCC represents the collective voice of over 240 fintech companies across key segments, including digital lending, wealth, insurance, digital financial services, RegTech, and credit bureaus. Its mission is to address sector-specific challenges and foster dialogue within the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) ecosystem. The FCC engages with regulators to shape progressive policies while focusing on knowledge sharing, consumer education, and responsible finance. GLEIF is a contributing partner to both the FCC and the PCI, supporting knowledge sharing, ecosystem growth, and joint global initiatives.

FIWARE Foundation– Associate Member

The FIWARE Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes the adoption of open standards using open-source technologies to develop innovative smart solutions. Together with its members and partners, FIWARE Foundation drives the definition and Open Source implementation of key open standards that enable the development of portable and interoperable smart solutions more quickly, more easily, and more affordably, thus avoiding vendor lock-in while also nurturing FIWARE as a sustainable, innovation-driven business ecosystem. GLEIF is a partner of the FIWARE Foundation and part of the FIWARE global ecosystem. FIWARE and GLEIF collaborate to foster a globally interoperable data framework based on open standards, enabling legal entities across mobility, industrial, and other economic sectors to be identified and approved.

Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) – Observing Member

Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) is the leading industry association for the blockchain technology and digital assets community. Launched in Davos in 2017, GBBC is a Swiss-based non-profit, with more than 500 institutional members, and 301 Ambassadors across 117 jurisdictions and disciplines. The organization is dedicated to advancing the adoption of blockchain technology by convening regulators, business leaders, and global changemakers to foster collaboration and advance dialogue, creating more secure, equitable, and functional societies. GLEIF collaborates with GBBC to promote standards for the global blockchain and digital assets community.

Global Digital Collaboration (GDC)- Co-Organizer

The Global Digital Collaboration will foster wallet credentials and trusted infrastructure for the benefit of all humans. GLEIF has joined as a co-organizer and will attend the inaugural conference in Switzerland in July 2025. Supported by Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) and rooted in the principles of the Global Digital Compact, this collaboration reflects a bold new model: neither a public initiative with private participation, nor a private project seeking public validation, but a true public-private partnership. It is designed to serve the global commons and ensure that critical digital infrastructure is resilient, interoperable, and beneficial to all.

Global Digital Finance (GDF) – Observing Member

GDF is the leading global members' association that advocates for and accelerates the adoption of best practices in crypto and digital assets. GDF’s mission is to promote and facilitate greater adoption of market standards for digital assets by convening industry, policymakers, and regulators to develop best practices and governance standards.GLEIF partners with GDF in support of the development of an ecosystem of standards for the Digital Asset Industry.

Industry Advisory Board (IAB) / International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – Member

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is the institutional representative of 45 million companies in more than 100 countries. The ICC works to promote international trade, responsible business conduct, and a global approach to regulation through a unique mix of advocacy and standard-setting activities—together with market-leading dispute resolution services.

GLEIF has joined the ICC Industry Advisory Board to support the Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) in 2021. This initiative aims to promote greater digitization of international trade by developing open trade standards and leveraging key technologies. GLEIF will provide strategic insights into the role digital identity can play in optimizing global economic integration, along with implementation strategies.

International Securities Services Association – Member

The International Securities Services Association (ISSA) is a global association that supports the securities services industry. ISSA’s members include CSDs, custodians, technology companies, and other firms actively involved in the securities services value chain. ISSA’s mission is to connect securities services industry leaders and stakeholders, collaborate on key themes that affect all participants in the value chain, and transform the industry by developing and delivering forward-looking solutions. As a leader in international standards and the digital identity space, GLEIF, through its membership, promotes the global adoption of the LEI and the verifiable LEI (vLEI) to continue building a new global ecosystem for organizational digital identity.

ISO TC 68, Financial Services

• Category A Liaison member
• Co-convenor and Secretary Standards Advisory Group
• TC 68 liaison representative to TC 309 Governance of Organizations
• Member Advisory Group Artificial Intelligence

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 168 national standards bodies. Through its members, it brings together experts to share knowledge and develop voluntary, consensus-based, market-relevant International Standards that support innovation and address global challenges.

Technical Committee 68 (ISO/TC 68) is responsible for creating global standards for the financial services industry. TC 68 is responsible for standards covering core banking and capital markets, including asset management, payments, credit card processing, and information security specific to financial services.


ISO TC 68 SC 8, Reference Data, Financial Services

• Category A Liaison member

Scope: Standardization in the field of reference data for financial services


ISO Maintenance Agency for ISO 20275, Financial Services; Entity Legal Forms (ELF)

GLEIF is the convenor of the Maintenance Agency and acts as the Maintenance Agency Secretariat for the ISO 20275 standard and maintains the ELF Code List. Click here for more details.


ISO Maintenance Agency for ISO 5009, Financial Services; Official Organizational Roles (OOR)

GLEIF is the convenor of the Maintenance Agency and acts as the Maintenance Agency Secretariat for the ISO 5009 standard and maintains the OOR Code List. Click here for more details.

International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) – Associate Organization

The International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) is the global trade association for companies, financial institutions, and intermediaries active in trade, forfaiting, supply chain, and receivables finance. Founded in 1999, ITFA represents around 400 member institutions across more than 60 countries. Its members include banks and financial institutions engaged in originating, distributing, and managing trade-related risk. GLEIF works with ITFA and its members to advance standardization, data quality, and the adoption of best practices across the global trade finance ecosystem, focusing on trusted organizational identification.

KERI Foundation – Community Lead Manager

Supports open-source KERI Suite innovation. Provides technical, financial, and organizational leadership for the KERI Foundation and fosters a collaborative community aligned with the Foundation's mission and vision. GLEIF has joined the KERI Foundation board as the Community Lead Manager.

Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust – General Member

Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LF Decentralized Trust) is an open-source foundation for decentralized technology ecosystems. By joining LF Decentralized Trust, GLEIF strengthens its collaboration with the Trust Over IP (ToIP) community to drive adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and the verifiable LEI (vLEI) in the digital asset ecosystem. GLEIF collaborates with LF Decentralized Trust and the broader community to enable seamless and verifiable organizational identity in the decentralized economy.

Linux Foundation Europe – Member

Linux Foundation Europe (LF Europe) is an independent, trusted supporter and vendor-neutral home for open-source projects. LF Europe serves as a key arena for intra- and inter-regional collaboration on open source and open standards across Europe, bringing together the public and private sectors as well as individual contributors. Its mission is to accelerate the growth of open collaborative efforts that address challenges and opportunities unique to Europe, while enabling European initiatives to connect and collaborate globally. GLEIF is a proud member of LF Europe, supporting its mission to foster open, collaborative development that advances transparency and innovation across sectors.

Mojaloop Foundation – Member

The Mojaloop Foundation’s mission is to increase financial inclusion by empowering organizations to create interoperable payment systems that enable digital financial services for all. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Foundation maintains Mojaloop—its open-source software and community—as public goods to serve global financial inclusion goals. Governments, banks, mobile money providers, and other stakeholders can use Mojaloop to build or enhance inclusive real-time payment platforms. GLEIF has joined the Global Partner Program to expand trusted business identity across borders.

Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) – Member

The Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) is a global trade body established in 2000 and headquartered in the UK, with members worldwide. As the voice of the mobile ecosystem, it focuses on cross-industry best practices, anti-fraud, and monetization. The Forum provides its members with global, cross-sector platforms for networking, collaboration, and advancing industry solutions. GLEIF engages in MEF‘s Personal Data & Identity Working Group to support important industry discussions and developments concerning the prevention of fraudulent calls and messages with our advanced knowledge and expertise in the world of identity management.

OpenWallet Foundation (OWF)– Associate Sponsor

The OpenWallet Foundation (OWF) is a consortium of companies and non-profit organizations collaborating to drive global adoption of open, secure, and interoperable digital wallet solutions, and provides access to expertise and advice through its Government Advisory Council. The OWF aims to establish best practices for digital wallet technology by collaborating on standards-based OSS components that issuers, wallet providers, and relying parties can use to bootstrap implementations that preserve user choice, security, and privacy. As an advocate for these values, GLEIF collaborates with the OWF, including contributions to the Architecture Special Interest Group and Credential Format Comparison Special Interest Group.

OS-Climate – Associate Member

OS-Climate is establishing a breakthrough data and analytics solution for climate-aligned investing, finance, and regulation. The project uses Open-Source data and community-based governance to develop tools that will drive sector alignment with net-zero goals, improve asset allocation in the face of physical risks, and perform transition and adaptation planning analysis.

In 2022, OS-Climate, hosted by the Linux Foundation, welcomed GLEIF’s participation in a collaborative effort to drive trust and transparency with its Open-Source Climate Data and Analytics Solutions. As an active contributor to this open-source community, GLEIF helps realize OS-Climate’s goal of building a data and software platform that boosts global capital flows for climate change mitigation and resilience.

Payment Council of India (PCI) – Contributor

The Payment Council of India (PCI) was formed in 2013 under the aegis of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). The PCI addresses the needs of the digital payment industry. The Council was formed, inter alia, to represent the various non-banking payment industry players and to address and help resolve industry-level issues and barriers that require discussion and action. With over 180 members representing more than 90% of the sector, the PCI promotes industry growth while supporting the national goals of a 'Cashless Society' and financial inclusion, aligning with the RBI and Government of India. The PCI represents India's complete digital payments ecosystem through its various committees, each representing a different sector. GLEIF is a contributing partner to both the FCC and the PCI, supporting knowledge sharing, ecosystem growth, and joint global initiatives.

SME Finance Forum – Industry Partner

The SME Finance Forum (SMEFF), backed by the G20 and IFC/World Bank, is a network of 300+ members and affiliates with coverage spanning 190+ countries. The members are primarily financial services providers, including banks, fintechs, non-bank financial institutions, development finance institutions, credit guarantee companies, and microfinance institutions. The affiliates include policy advocacy groups, academia, SME and banking associations, training providers, and non-profit organizations. SME Finance Forum and GLEIF’s collaboration will help SMEs gain access to reliable legal entity data, improve their credibility, and facilitate easier access to global markets and financial services.

Trust over IP (ToIP)

• Founding Contributor member
• Steering Committee member

In 2020, GLEIF announced its membership in Trust over IP (ToIP), a cross-industry coalition to advance digital trust standards and enable trustworthy exchange and verification of data between any two parties on the internet. Hosted by the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT), ToIP is an independent project that brings together governments, non-profit organizations, and private-sector stakeholders to enhance universal security and privacy protocols for consumers and businesses in the digital era. As a contributor member, GLEIF is working alongside other leading organizations to advance digital trust standards in a neutral forum.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Member

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's primary activity is to develop protocols and guidelines that ensure the Web's long-term growth. W3C's standards define key parts of what makes the World Wide Web work.

XBRL International

• Direct Member
• Member Digital Signatures in XBRL Working Group (D6WG)

XBRL International is a not-for-profit standards development organization for digital business reporting. The purpose of XBRL International is to improve the accountability and transparency of business performance globally by providing an open data exchange standard for business reporting. As a member of the XBRL International Board of Directors, GLEIF regularly coordinates with XBRL International to promote the use of standards, such as the LEI, to ensure consistent and effective global data collection and reporting. GLEIF is also a member of the new Digital Signatures in XBRL Working Group (D6WG), which has been formed to define a standard approach to applying digital signatures to XBRL reports.

XBRL US

• Direct Member
• Member Digital Asset Working Group (DAWG)

XBRL US is a not-for-profit organization supporting the implementation of open digital reporting standards for business and government through the development of taxonomies for use by the U.S. public and private sectors, with a goal of interoperability between sectors, and by promoting XBRL adoption through marketplace collaboration. GLEIF is a member of the Digital Asset Working Group (DAWG) that supports the creation and adoption of a standardized digital framework for registration and ongoing disclosures for digital asset issuers as defined in the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025 (GENIUS Act) and future digital asset regulation.