ISO 17442 · GLEIF open data · CC0
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The Legal Entity Identifier is the 20-character code that identifies a legal entity in global finance. Search 3,426,628 of them by name or LEI — with full reference data, corporate ownership, and a change history no one else keeps.
- Entities
- 3,426,628
- Jurisdictions
- 235
- Ownership links
- 488,773
Anatomy of an LEI
The code is opaque, but structured: the first four characters name the issuing organisation, the middle identifies the entity, the last two verify the whole thing.
The atlas
Browse by jurisdiction
- India393,218
- United States360,274
- Italy258,088
- Germany255,538
- United Kingdom231,546
- Netherlands196,562
- Spain192,977
- France190,293
- Sweden119,902
- Denmark114,563
- China107,229
- Luxembourg72,655
- Belgium68,019
- Norway65,355
- Finland59,792
- Canada58,734
- Australia52,870
- Austria48,983
- Cayman Islands47,296
- Poland42,921
- Ireland38,065
- British Virgin Islands34,807
- Czechia32,690
- Estonia29,831
- Switzerland28,144
- Hungary26,071
- Japan19,294
- Portugal18,451
- Liechtenstein15,473
- Cyprus15,139
Reference data
Legal name, form, registered address, registration authority and status — for every entity, or “Not reported” when GLEIF has no value.
Who owns whom
Direct and ultimate parents, subsidiaries and reporting exceptions, linked into a navigable ownership graph.
A change history
GLEIF discards prior values when they change. LEIatlas keeps every version, so you can see how an entity evolved.