The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) project for financial services is taking longer than planned. Developed by the Financial Stability Boardat the direction of the G20, the LEI is meant to provide a way ...

Is it a correct interpretation that Trading Venues will need to collect LEI’s (Legal Entity Identifier) prior to the application of MiFID II/MiFIR? Yes, this is correct. Trading Venues will be ...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act established the Office of Financial Research, or OFR, within the Treasury Department to improve the quality of financial data available to ...

BASEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research conducted by McKinsey on behalf of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has concluded that wider use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) ...

It's hard to believe that August 21 marked the fourth anniversary of the start of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporations' CFTC Interim Compliance Identifier (CICI) utility, the service that ...

RapidLEI, a GLEIF accredited LEI issuer specialising in the automation of the LEI provision process, has launched the industrys first comprehensive API designed to streamline and simplify the ...

S&P Capital IQ plans to launch a Business Entity Cross Reference Service (BECRS) that will place various identifiers—including the legal entity identifier (LEI), S&P ratings identifiers, Moody's ...

International regulatory authorities have called for the urgent creation of a universal Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in their final report on the OTC derivatives data that should be collected, stored ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority has launched a survey on legal entity identifiers to gather evidence on how the optionality in the use of legal identifiers would impact market ...

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