The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has named the Shanghai Electronic Certification Authority (SHECA) as its newest Qualified vLEI Issuer (QVI), The vLEI is a globally standardised, secure digital counterpart to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), providing cryptographically verifiable organisational identity. SHECA, one of China’s Certification Authorities, will now offer authoritative vLEI issuance, validation…

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has named Singapore’s TradeGo as a Qualified vLEI Issuer, permitting it to issue and register virtual equivalents of the internationally recognised entity verification technology.

The China Financial Certification Authority (CFCA) has been announced as the first Chinese overseer of virtual identifiers created by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). The CFCA has become a Qualified vLEI Issuer (QVI) in the Global LEI System. VLEIs are used to verify the digital identities of companies and assets in financial transactions….

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has formed an international, cross-industry advisory board to provide support for users of its vLEI digital verification technology. The vLEI Technical Advisory Board will help stakeholders seeking technical, governance and developmental support. Its membership is drawn from expertise within companies including Accelerate, Esatus and Prosapien and will be…

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Nord vLEI has become the first European-based verifiable LEI (vLEI) issuer qualified by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Nord vLEI is a subsidiary of NordLEI, the leading LEI issuer in Scandinavia and eighth largest globally, with more than 165,000 LEIs issued since 2014. The vLEI is a digitised organisational identity that meets global…

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The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has underpinned the verifiable LEI (vLEI) with an issuer qualification programme that once completed with allow businesses to obtain vLEI digital identify credentials from the issuer for use in digital organisational identity. The GLEIF expects the vLEI issuer qualification process to take about 90 days. A qualified vLEI…

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has released an ebook, The vLEI: Introducing Digital I.D. for Legal Entities Everywhere. The ebook promotes use of the verifiable LEI (vLEI), which supports digitised organisational identity to meet global interest in automated authentication and verification of legal entities across industries including financial services. The ebook presents an…

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has published its planned verifiable LEI (vLEI) Ecosystem Governance Framework and is working with capital markets regulators on how the vLEI could be a means of securing filings and reports. It has also presented the framework for review by the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the LEI, which…

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The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), a non-profit managing the LEI system, has established a representative office in China’s Shanghai Lin-gang Special Area. The expansion supports demand for the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and the verifiable LEI (vLEI) across the region. China is a key part of the Global LEI System, following a 2020…

Chainlink, the decentralized blockchain network designed to facilitate the transfer of tamper-proof data from off-chain sources to on-chain smart contracts, has introduced its Automated Compliance Engine (ACE). ACE is a modular framework aimed at addressing compliance challenges in onchain finance and facilitating institutional participation in blockchain markets. Built atop the Chainlink Runtime Environment, ACE is…

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