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The obligations on legal entities to increase their corporate transparency continue to evolve, most notably in ESG and financial reporting. For ESG to be truly credible, however, both as a subset of f...
According to EY’s 2021 Global Corporate Reporting Survey, 76% of the world’s major finance leaders back the need for globally consistent environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. Stephan ...
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), Zimbabwe’s NMB Bank Limited, GLEIF, Cenfri and Cornerstone Advisory Plus recently collaborated to launch the first iteration of GLEIF’s digital business identity in...
By adjusting their onboarding processes financial institutions can enhance their client experience, reduce costs and pave the way for new cross border services, explains Stephan Wolf, CEO, Global LEI ...
In a battle for significance, no other public facing business document can match the annual financial report. It is the document that a public corporation must, by law, publish to describe its operati...
It is the only open, standardized and regulatory-endorsed system capable of establishing digitized trust between all legal entities, everywhere. There is a fundamental principle which often hinders de...
The crucial role of the LEI in the EC’s AML-CTF legislative reforms In May 2020, the European Commission put forward a series of measures designed to strengthen the EU's fight against money laundering...
GLEIF showcases how the LEIs should be included within digital, machine-readable financial documentation on the basis of ESMA’s ESEF mandate, to enhance trust and ease data aggregation, and demonstrat...