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Legal Entity Identifier Services by GLEIF
The governance of digital identity needs better answers. Help shape them.
GLEIF has launched a Call for Papers inviting economists, legal experts, policymakers, and technologists to tackle one of the defining questions in digital public infrastructure: how to balance interoperability, sovereignty, and innovation. Proposals are open until June 21, 2026.
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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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GLEIF Mission
Empowering global trust and transparency through open, digital, and verifiable organizational identity
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.
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.