Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

Strengthening Global Market Transparency Through Broader LEI Adoption

January 12, 2026

As global markets become more interconnected, the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) has emerged as a critical tool for increasing transparency, improving risk management, and streamlining regulatory compliance. Each new LEI contributes to a more complete and reliable global identity framework, benefiting financial institutions, corporates, regulators, and technology providers.

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Download Your Entity's LEI Certificate at No Additional Cost

December 17, 2025

Entities that manage their Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) with Bloomberg can now easily download their official LEI certificate directly from the My Requests section of the website at no additional cost. This new feature provides quick access to verified documentation of your LEI, helping you confidently demonstrate your entity's identity and compliance status.

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Using LEIs to Build Reliable AI Systems

December 3, 2025

In a world rushing to deploy AI, one critical element of reliability is often overlooked: ensuring your data truly represents the correct entity.

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Recent Global Regulatory Actions Reaffirm Importance of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs)

March 18, 2024

Several recent regulatory announcements have emphasized how valuable LEIs are for bringing transparency to markets and enabling more consistent and usable data to meet global requirements. The following round up summarizes these global regulatory announcements and explains the role of LEIs.

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How LEIs Benefit Cross Border Payments

November 15, 2023

The streamlining of standards and processes related to cross border payments continues to be a trending topic globally. The LEI can play an important role in creating efficiencies in this space.

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Bloomberg on Using the LEI for Sanctions Screening

August 4, 2023

The reliable identification and verification of entities that may be subject to sanctions by various global authorities has become an increasingly important topic in the industry. LEIs can help play an important role in understanding counterparties in transactions and defining corporate hierarchies; both of which add greater transparency during sanctions screening processes.

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The latest developments with Legal Entity Identifiers

May 15, 2023

LEIs have become an increasingly popular entity identification tool with over 2.3 million in existence today. Bloomberg remains at the forefront of global developments and continues to enhance its related services as the market's use of the LEI evolves.

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