From Vision to Reality: Real-World Impact of LEI and vLEI Innovation
As adoption of the LEI and vLEI accelerates, David Campos, Head of Partnerships at GLEIF, highlights how organizations can now explore trusted partner solutions delivering real, measurable benefits today.
Author: David Campos
Date: 2025-11-12
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GLEIF is dedicated to advancing interoperable, verifiable organizational identity and strengthening trust and transparency across the global digital economy.
To achieve this mission, GLEIF launched the GLEIF Partners Program earlier in 2025, building a global community of innovators, including data and technology vendors, service providers, financial institutions, corporations, and trust service providers (TSPs). Together, these organizations are accelerating the adoption of the LEI and vLEI worldwide. This growing network has evolved into a thriving ecosystem. The innovation led by GLEIF partners will be key to advancing a more trusted global economy.
As a significant milestone in this growing ecosystem, GLEIF has launched the Partner Solutions page. This central hub showcases how LEI and vLEI innovations are being applied across digital ecosystems.
Introducing GLEIF Partner Solutions
The Partner Solutions page allows stakeholders to explore trusted partner offerings built on the LEI and vLEI. Solutions are organized into four key categories: Payments, Compliance, Trust Services, and Data Enrichment – each addressing a critical use case for verifiable organizational identity.
By connecting these solutions under one digital roof, GLEIF’s Partner Solutions page demonstrates the impact of an active ecosystem: high-value offerings that leverage the technology and strategic importance of the LEI and vLEI to enable secure, transparent business interactions across the global digital economy. These collective efforts strengthen global trust and foster greater interoperability and innovation.
Here, we spotlight some of the partners driving advances across these categories:
1. Payments
Payment solutions focus on embedding LEIs directly into payment infrastructures, such as Swift and ISO 20022 messaging, to enhance transparency and security in cross-border payments.
Montran's transactional solutions for market infrastructures and commercial banks use the LEI to verify an entity's identity throughout the entire transaction lifecycle. This persistence is key for internal checks, such as sanctions screening and anti-money laundering (AML), as well as for external clearing systems.
Partner Spotlight: Montran
2. Compliance
Compliance solutions leverage the LEI and vLEI to meet regulatory requirements, improve counterparty risk management, and streamline AML, Know Your Customer (KYC), and client onboarding processes.
Saphyre is embedding the LEI as the universal digital identity across its pre- and post-trade ecosystem, delivering the foundation for true interoperability, automation, and transparency standards in global finance.
Partner Spotlight: Saphyre
3. Trust Services
Trust Services are solutions that leverage the vLEI to build verifiable credentials, decentralized ID, and new digital trust frameworks.
Notabene provides a trust layer for global crypto money movement. Its open platform for stablecoin payments and a Travel Rule-compliant authorization platform are anchored to the LEI standard, giving every participant a reliable foundation of counterparty trust.
Partner Spotlight: Notabene
Chainlink’s ACE framework also uses vLEIs to ensure institutional participants carry globally recognized, cryptographically verified entity identities throughout compliance-focused decentralized finance workflows.
Partner Spotlight: Chainlink
4. Data Enrichment
Data Enrichment solutions leverage LEIs and vLEIs to enhance entity records with vital data on ownership, corporate hierarchies, and ESG performance.
CTI is an innovative ESG data provider. Using a proprietary AI workflow, it delivers ESG data on all disclosing entities. The platform's built-in use of several vital LEI services ensures accuracy in data collection, entity information, parent-subsidiary relationships, and related ISINs. The result is unmatched accuracy, transparency, and scalability, empowering banks, financial institutions, and corporates to act with speed and confidence.
The future of organizational identity is already taking shape. The GLEIF Partners Solutions page demonstrates the pace of innovation within the Global LEI System and how technical promise is transforming into practical solutions that help organizations address real-world challenges of digital transformation.
GLEIF invites all stakeholders to explore these partner technologies in action. Organizations developing LEI- or vLEI-enabled solutions can join the GLEIF Partners Program to gain global visibility and collaborate with innovators shaping the future of trusted organizational identity.
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David Campos is the Head of Partnerships at the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), where he drives global relationship management and strategic collaboration across the Global LEI System. He oversees GLEIF’s business relationships with the worldwide network of LEI Issuers, ensuring the integrity and operational excellence of the ecosystem.
David also leads the GLEIF Partners Program, which brings together a global community of collaborators, including data vendors, technology providers, financial institutions, corporations, and trust service providers (TSPs), all united by the goal of building a trusted digital identity framework. Through this initiative, the program advances adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and verifiable LEI (vLEI) across industries, promoting innovation, strengthening compliance, and fostering transparency in the digital economy.
Before joining GLEIF, David worked in international trade, developing a strong foundation in global business and cross-border collaboration. He holds an MBA from the University of Leipzig.
