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Standard · Identity · GLEIF / ISO
LEI (ISO 17442)
Defines the 20-character Legal Entity Identifier used to identify parties to financial transactions. The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) oversees the system and publishes the full LEI registry as open, machine-readable data with a public API.
- Category
- Identity
- Steward organization
- GLEIF / ISO
- Scope
- Legal entity identification for financial transactions
- Status
- Active
- Machine-readable
- Yes — consumable as structured schemas / APIs
- Official source
- www.gleif.org
This standard belongs to GLEIF / ISO. Banking Foundation documents it for reference with attribution and links to the official source — always rely on the steward's current text.
Approximate reference data from public sources · seed-0.1 · 2026-08-28 · not real-time, not advice. See data & methodology.
# this page as data
GET https://banking.foundation/api/v1/standards/lei-iso-17442