LEI - Legal Entity Identifiers
Rely on 20-digit alphanumeric LEI code to identify legal entities worldwide
Use LEI codes to find information about "who is who" and "who owns who"
Enjoy GLEIF open and free access data base accessible to everyone
Choose a tool globally recognized and used by legal entity worldwide
Do you really know your business partner?
The 2008 financial crisis bare laid the need to identify and analyse the exposure at legal entities level. Therefore, the Financial Stabilty Board created the Global Legal Entities Identifier System, that assigns LEI to legal entities, providing information about “who is who” and “who owns who”.
In December 2019 InfoCert completed the GLEIF accreditation becoming a Local Operating Unit (LOU) authorized to issue LEIs.
Trust your business partner, verify the identity with LEI
Financial trade
B2B commerce
Commercial credit
To extend commercial credit, the lender must verify the legal entity structure and stability. The use of LEI would help to standardize this information and thus would significantly reduce the time that banks’ middle and back offices spend on manual verification processes.
Reduce costs and increase trasparency with LEI
Speed up verificationThe use of the LEI reduce transactional frictions and enables faster identy verification to organization that use different data base.
Reduce costsThe simpler and faster is the verification process, the lower are the costs to identify business counterparts.
Increase transparencyAll LEI information are open and for free access in GLEIF data base.
Guarantee traceabilityLEI contains entity ownership structure, useful to match multiple legal documents to a single client when processing a specific transaction.
Intermediary Banks instructions & responsibilities
Definition
GLEIF Master Agreement means the agreement executed between any LOU and GLEIF which sets forth the main rights and obligations of any LOU to issue LEI within the GLEIS
The burden of proof that an entity is to be considered as Government Entity stays either with the particular entity or with its competent supervisory agency
LE-RD means the data linked to the Applicant as defined by the currently valid Common Data File Formats, describing business card and relationship information related to corresponding ROC policies
InfoCert accreditation
InfoCert completed the GLEIF accreditation in December 2019 and is a Local Operating Unit (LOU).
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a 20-character, alpha-numeric code based on the ISO 17442 standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) evaluates the fitness of organizations seeking to operate as LEIs issuers. In December 2019 InfoCert completed the GLEIF accreditation becoming a Local Operating Unit (LOU) authorized to issue LEIs. LOUs supply registration, renewal and other services acting as the primary interface for legal entities regarding LEIs.
- Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
- Local Operating Unit (LOU)
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