ISO; GLEIF and LEI ROC
Legal Entity Identifier
ISO-17442-LEI
- Authority
- D, Accredited technical standardNormative within the issuing process
- Maturity
- M1, Published and stableCurrent normative or released artifact; still requires implementation due diligence
- Version
- ISO 17442-1:2020
- Jurisdiction
- Global
One of twelve records open without an account, chosen to span every class of authority so the classification can be judged before anybody signs in.
What it does
Globally unique legal-entity identity and reference data
Implementation
Open index, bulk files and API
What it does not do
LEI is not KYC, sanctions clearance, wallet ownership or authority for a particular action
This is the field that matters. Most failures here are a standard asked to carry something it was never written for, and the resulting gap is discovered in production.
Where it applies
Layers, the questions it helps answer
- L1
Product taxonomy and identifiers
What is the instrument, token, party, venue, transaction and network?
- L6
Identity, eligibility and compliance
Who may act or hold, based on which revocable evidence and policy?
Phases, when in the life of an instrument
- P0
Design time
legal classification, authority-of-record map, product archetype, standards shortlist
- P2
Issuance and deployment
identifiers, contracts, roles, registries, modules, documents and configuration manifest
- P4
Atomic execution
state transition, transfer, mint, burn, lock, settlement or message dispatch
- P5
Lifecycle servicing
calculations, corporate actions, payments, queues, elections and reconciliation
- P6
Operations and reporting
monitoring, statements, regulatory reports, evidence and incident response
- P7
Change, migration and exit
revocation, correction, upgrade, identifier continuity, migration, retirement and data export
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How it composes with others
Direction matters and is preserved. A conflict is not a warning about quality; it means the two cannot both hold without an adapter or a design change.
Extended by Verifiable LEI ecosystemVLEI
vLEI embeds LEI identity in a verifiable credential governance chain.
Source and terms of use
- Licence and access
- GLEIF LEI data is CC0 subject to service terms
- Last verified
- 2026-08-15, primary source verified
The Institute links to and describes primary sources; it does not reproduce their normative text. Several of these documents are copyrighted and cannot be redistributed, and the licence note above is the record’s own statement of its terms, not a grant. Status is reported as observed at 2026-08-15 in catalogue release 1.0.0 and must be revalidated before use. Nothing here is legal, regulatory, accounting, tax, investment, security-audit or production-readiness advice, and neither a published status nor an open implementation is a regulatory approval or a certification.