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 3,379,915 of them by name or LEI — with full reference data, corporate ownership, and a change history no one else keeps.
- Entities
- 3,379,915
- Jurisdictions
- 236
- Ownership links
- 481,574
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
- India378,963
- United States356,280
- Italy255,619
- Germany252,653
- United Kingdom229,422
- Netherlands193,426
- Spain191,548
- France187,709
- Sweden118,959
- Denmark113,604
- China107,178
- Luxembourg71,999
- Belgium66,906
- Norway64,781
- Finland59,213
- Canada58,190
- Australia52,065
- Austria48,532
- Cayman Islands46,727
- Poland42,392
- Ireland37,594
- British Virgin Islands34,501
- Czechia32,343
- Estonia29,329
- Switzerland27,849
- Hungary25,826
- Japan19,138
- Portugal18,164
- Liechtenstein15,358
- Cyprus14,958
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.