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GLEIF welcomes BOCOM as latest validation agent
14 November 2024 China
Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli

The validation marks a significant milestone for LEI adoption in China and the APAC region

GLEIF opens new office in Mumbai
22 October 2024 India
Reporter: Daniel Tison

The establishment is designed to allow GLEIF to actively engage and directly collaborate with Indian LEI stakeholders and regulators at a localised level

GLEIF voices support for CPMI LEI recognition
24 October 2023 Switzerland
Reporter: Lucy Carter

The Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation has welcomed the Bank of International Settlements’ Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures’ advocation for use of the Legal Entity Identifier within ISO 20022 payments

GLEIF and Open Ownership partnership advances LEI integration in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
27 September 2023 Brussels
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The goal of the collaboration is to promote greater transparency in corporate ownership and control in support of safer, faster, and more efficient global payment activities

UNDP, GLEIF and MAS create Project Savannah to digitise basic ESG Credentials for MSMEs
26 June 2023 Global
Reporter: Macy Heath

The initiative is part of an effort to increase requirements from regulators, financial institutions, and supply chain partners for corporations and businesses to report their sustainability performance

GLEIF completes trial to support development of cross-border organisational trust
15 December 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The organisation indicates a growing requirement for harmonisation in cross-border trust services in the face of increasing levels of international trade and commerce taking place across digital platforms

GLEIF and SWIFT partners to provide mapping of MICs to LEIs
15 November 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The MIC is an International Organization for Standardization code used to process and clear trades

Sparkasse Bank Malta and Diligencia become GLEIF validation agents
08 November 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation introduced the Validation Agent Framework to enable regulated institutions to leverage their KYC and AML onboarding procedures and help their clients obtain LEIs

FSB report reviews steps to encourage LEI adoption in cross-border payments
08 July 2022 Global
Reporter: AST

The study analyses constraints imposed by poor data quality, fragmentation across data sources, and inadequate standardisation of data exchanges and forms part of a G20 Roadmap to promote speed, transparency and resilience in cross-border payments

GLEIF creates qualification programme for vLEI Issuers
07 July 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: AST

The Foundation is now inviting partners to start the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI) Issuer Qualification process, enabling a qualified LEI issuer to serve as the primary point of contact and issuing agency for legal entities seeking a vLEI

GLEIF deploys first verifiable Legal Entity Identifier
29 June 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The vLEI is a digital version of the LEI, which intends to meet an “urgent need” for automated digital verification of the legal identities of businesses

GLEIF publishes Ecosystem Governance Framework for vLEI
07 February 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The framework defines the vLEI operational model and describes how the new ecosystem’s range of vLEI issuing stakeholders will qualify for and perform their roles in the Global LEI System