Organization and Committee Engagement

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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.

Carbon Call

• Member
• Co-champion Discoverable Data Subgroup

The Carbon Call, a ClimateWorks Foundation-hosted initiative, mobilizes collective action, investment, and resources to strengthen a more reliable and interoperable carbon accounting system for the planet. It builds on, promotes, and helps accelerate ongoing work to improve the measurement, reporting, and verification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removal, primarily for the corporate sector. The LEI and the vLEI can play a crucial role in sustainability reporting and, as the co-champion of the ‘discoverable data’ subgroup for The Carbon Call, GLEIF can help promote transparency in sustainability reporting to support The Carbon Call roadmap released at COP27.

EDM Council – Member

EDM Council is a member-driven trade association dedicated to elevating data management and analytics as a strategic business priority. Founded in 2005, the Council provides best practices, standards, and education to data and business professionals around the world. The EDM Council is the originator of the Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) – the industry-standard guideline on the practice of data and analytics management. As a neutral trade association, the EDM Council also advises regulators and market authorities on the data implications of financial regulations. GLEIF is a participating member of the EDM Council.

Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA) – Member

The Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA) is a premier membership organization uniting innovative businesses in 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 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, unlocking the full potential of tokenization for a more inclusive and efficient financial ecosystem. GLEIF collaborates with ERC3643 to promote standards for asset tokenization.

EU Digital Identity Wallet Consortium – Associated Partner

The EU Digital Wallet Consortium (EWC) is a joint effort to successfully 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 necessitate the use of multiple Electronic Attestation of Attributes and Credentials as well as the involvement of both the private sector and the public sector. GLEIF has joined the consortium to explore compliance of the vLEI with the EUDI wallet.

Eurofiling Foundation – Board Member

Eurofiling provides a collaborative environment, being 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 leveraging the LEI and the verifiable LEI (vLEI) to support Eurofiling’s mission.

FIWARE Foundation– Associate Member

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 the Open Source implementation, of key open standards that enable the development of portable and interoperable smart solutions in a faster, easier, and more affordable way, thus avoiding vendor lock-in scenarios while also nurturing FIWARE as a sustainable and innovation-driven business ecosystem. GLEIF is a partner of the FIWARE Foundation and included in the FIWARE global ecosystem. FIWARE and GLEIF collaborate to foster a global data interoperable framework based on open standards, enabling legal entities from 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 largest 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 furthering adoption of blockchain technology by convening regulators, business leaders, and global changemakers to foster collaboration and advance dialogue to create more secure, equitable, and functional societies. GLEIF collaborates with GBBC to promote standards for the global blockchain and digital assets community.

Global Digital Finance (GDF) – Observing Member

GDF is the leading global members association advocating and accelerating the adoption of best practices for crypto and digital assets. GDF’s mission is to promote and facilitate greater adoption of market standards for digital assets through the development of best practices and governance standards by convening industry, policymakers, and regulators.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 international trade digitization efforts through the development of open trade standards, leveraging key technologies. GLEIF will provide strategic insight into the role digital identity can play in optimizing global economic integration and strategies for implementation.

International Securities Services Association – Member

The International Securities Services Association (ISSA) is an international association that supports the securities services industry globally. 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 impact all participants in the value chain, and transform the industry through the development and delivery of forward-looking solutions. As a leader in international standards and the digital identity space, GLEIF promotes through its membership the global adoption of the LEI and 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

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 provide solutions to 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 that cover core banking, and capital markets, including asset management, payments, credit card processing, and information security aspects specific to financial services.


ISO TC 68 SC 8, Reference Data, Financial Services

• Category A Liaison member
• Convenor, Secretary, and Working Group member – WG 11, ISO 17442 Part 3

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.

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 across the world. 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 and 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. 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, as well as 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 into climate change mitigation and resilience.

Trust over IP Foundation

• Founding Contributor member
• Steering Committee member

In 2020, GLEIF announced its membership of the Trust over IP Foundation (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, the ToIP Foundation 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 long-term growth for the Web. W3C's standards define key parts of what makes the World Wide Web work. GLEIF is participating in the Verifiable Credentials Working Group due to the development of the verifiable LEI (vLEI).

XBRL International

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

XBRL International is a not-for-profit standards development organization for the digital business reporting standard. The purpose of XBRL International is to improve the accountability and transparency of business performance globally, by providing the 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 data collection and reporting on a global basis. GLEIF is also a member of the new Digital Signatures in XBRL Working Group (D6WG) that has been formed to define a standard approach to the application of digital signatures to XBRL reports.