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 3,437,327 of them by name or LEI — with full reference data, corporate ownership, and a change history no one else keeps.
- Entities
- 3,437,327
- Jurisdictions
- 235
- Ownership links
- 489,981
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
- India396,041
- United States361,147
- Italy258,895
- Germany256,231
- United Kingdom232,030
- Netherlands197,290
- Spain193,394
- France191,003
- Sweden120,156
- Denmark114,776
- China107,237
- Luxembourg72,807
- Belgium68,166
- Norway65,513
- Finland59,936
- Canada58,854
- Australia53,043
- Austria49,086
- Cayman Islands47,435
- Poland43,069
- Ireland38,191
- British Virgin Islands34,887
- Czechia32,771
- Estonia29,945
- Switzerland28,210
- Hungary26,131
- Japan19,319
- Portugal18,521
- Liechtenstein15,494
- Cyprus15,178
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.