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Thai Identity Tech Firm Finema Named Latest Asian Virtual GLEIF Issuer
Finema, a Thailand-based digital identity technology company, has become the first Southeast Asian issuer of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation’s verifiable Legal Entity Identifiers (vLEI). As a Qualified vLEI Issuer, Finema will be responsible for providing the digital equivalent of GLEIF’s ISO-recognised identity recognition and validation certifier to participating companies in the region. The…
GLEIF Begins a New Decade in Growth Mode
The Global Legal Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) enters its second decade this month with its novel system of identifiers for everything from companies and their financial instruments to real assets fast becoming a global standard. While the next five years are expected to see yet more entities join the GLEIF’s open data project, the organisation’s immediate…
2024: A Year of Increasing Data Complexity
One thing was apparent in the data management space over the past year; the job of chief data officers became increasingly complex as the volume of data their organisations ingested swelled and the uses to which it was put expanded. All that despite the flowering of technologies with the potential to make life easier for…
Leading the Fight Against Corporate Fraud: How Every Business Can Embrace Transparency
By Alexandre Kech, chief executive at GLEIF. With criminals flourishing in the shadows of the global economy, shining a light on the legal entities involved in cross-border transactions is a foundational requirement to restore trust. For even the smallest organisations, this represents a compelling opportunity to make transparency a strategic priority and combat risk by…
GLEIF Open Mumbai Office as Indian Use of LEIs Surges
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has expanded its operations to India, opening an office in Mumbai where it intends to gain a deeper understanding of local markets. The non-profit organisation, which provides universal identification codes for companies and assets to make it easier to verify and map data to them, said India has…
Webinar Review: Harnessing the Wider Benefits of Data Identifiers
Almost three-quarters of capital markets participants are utilising data standards and identifiers beyond their immediate regulatory use cases, realising the huge benefits that ordered and consistent datasets can bring to an enterprise’s entire operations. The findings of an A-Team Group Data Management Insight poll showed that 40% of respondents said they are using the resources to a…
BNP Paribas Becomes First EU G-SIB to Join GLEIF Validation Agent Programme
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) continues to build out the Global LEI System (GLEIS) with the addition of BNP Paribas as a Validation Agent. The addition of BNP Paribas marks the first global systemically important bank (G-SIB) headquartered in the EU to join the Validation Agent programme. Most recently, the GLEIF added Nord…
Alexandre Kech Steps Up to Role of GLEIF CEO as Stephan Wolf Steps Down
Following the decision by Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), to step down from the role on 24 June 2024 after a decade of leading the foundation from its start-up phase to the growing organisation it is today, the GLEIF board of directors has appointed Alexandre Kech to the position….
Stephan Wolf Steps Down from Role of GLEIF CEO in June 2024
Stephan Wolf, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), will step down from the role on 24 June 2024 after a decade of leading the foundation from its start-up phase to the growing organisation it is today. In a post on LinkedIn, Wolf writes: “After a decade of incredible experiences and achievements, I…
DTCC Pulls Out of LEI Issuance with Closure of GMEI Utility – Bloomberg and LSE Expected Beneficiaries
DTCC has closed its Global Markets Entity Identifier (GMEI) utility and will no longer issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) as a Local Operating Unit (LOU) in the Global LEI System. In a notice to GMEI clients, DTCC said the utility, operated by DTCC subsidiary and accredited LOU Business Entity Data B.V., terminated all its LEI…