Legal Entity Identifiers
As the world’s largest accredited Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) Issuer, Ubisecure RapidLEI makes it easy to register, manage and use verified organisation identity to meet regulation and enable trusted business relationships. Ubisecure RapidLEI gives you a verified, persistent identifier for every organisation you onboard, so your checks start from a fact rather than a form.
Issuing and managing more LEIs globally than any other accredited LEI Issuer. See LEI Stats
Consistently providing the most accurate legal entity reference data across the LEI ecosystem
Around the world using RapidLEI to manage Legal Entity Identifiers
The LEI search tool at RapidLEI queries the GLEIF Global LEI Index directly and is free to use with no account required. Search by legal name, LEI code, ISIN or BIC to retrieve Level 1 reference data, Level 2 parent relationships, LEI status and the GLEIF Policy Conformity Flag. Up to 20 codes can be checked in a single bulk lookup.
Utilise regulated organisation verification to streamline KYB client onboarding processes by eliminating duplicative workflows, saving time on manual reviews, and reducing bad entity data.
Gain an understanding of “who is who” and “who owns who” in counterparty transactions.
Over 300 regional and global regulations require the use of strong Organisation ID to properly identify parties and reduce fraud.
By combining verified Individual IDs and Organisation IDs, organisation representatives can assert who they are, who they represent, and the rights they have when representing them.
The Legal Entity Identifier is a 20-character code defined by ISO 17442 and endorsed by the G20 and the Financial Stability Board. It identifies one legal entity, globally, and it is not self-asserted. Before an LEI is issued, the entity is validated against an authoritative national business registry, and the record is revalidated every year.
That gives a KYB process two things it normally has to assemble by hand:
Level 1 data, “who is who” Legal name, registered and headquarters address, jurisdiction of incorporation, local registry and registration number, entity legal form, entity status, and the current status of the LEI itself.
Level 2 data, “who owns whom” Direct parent, ultimate parent, and child entities, reported against a defined accounting consolidation standard rather than a customer’s own description of its structure.
Because the identifier is public and persistent, both sides of a relationship can resolve to the same entity without exchanging documents. That is what makes it useful in onboarding, in payments, and in trade.
Fewer manual checks: Registry-validated reference data arrives structured. Analysts stop re-keying company details from registry websites and start reviewing exceptions.
Entity resolution that holds: One persistent identifier across systems, jurisdictions and counterparties. Duplicate records collapse. Group structures resolve without a manual mapping exercise.
Ownership without the paper chase: Level 2 relationships give you direct and ultimate parent in structured form, which is the starting point for beneficial ownership work rather than the end of it.
Live status, not an annual snapshot: LEI records are revalidated annually and status is public. A lapsed or retired counterparty is visible immediately, before it becomes a failed payment or a rejected report.
Checks that travel: The identifier means the same thing to a bank in Frankfurt, a regulator in Washington and a supplier in Singapore. Local identifiers do not.
Compliance coverage you already need: Over 300 regulations reference the LEI, including MiFID II, EMIR, DORA, MiCA, the EU Instant Payments Regulation, FATF Recommendation 16, and Bank of England CHAPS. Entities you onboard are
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The Value of LEI Automation for Banks
How banks can unlock seamless counterparty trades and client lifecycle management using RapidLEI and the GLEIF Validation Agent program.
Ubisecure makes it easy to not just issue LEIs, but also to discover, consolidate and manage both internal LEIs and LEIs for your banking clients. The LEI management portal provides instant status, reporting and analytics via a single dashboard to gain actionable insights into LEIs. Time spent managing LEIs is reduced, LEI subscription costs are lowered, and the risk of LEIs falling into lapsed state can be well mitigated.
There’s a reason the world’s most trusted banks choose Ubisecure RapidLEI.
“We have partnered with Ubisecure, and we are now a Validation Agent able to provide LEI to our clients, and it just made the process so much quicker and easier. And the feedback that we are receiving from onboarding is that clients are really grateful to have the service… And what benefit I can see from a client’s perspective is – they are going to have to go and get an LEI, but they also have to go through all of our onboarding KYC, sending us a lot of documentation. Who wants to do that twice? We can now get the LEI for them. So, it’s a win-win.”
Deborah Hardy, SVP Citi Bank
“We recognise the importance of LEI in global trade finance and participation in capital markets, so the provision of LEI services complements our business model and improves the level of service we offer our customers.”
Paul Mifsud, Managing Director at Sparkasse Bank Malta plc
Organisations can use their LEIs as an authentication method to assert authorised representation to reduce identity fraud and eliminate the costs associated with manual representation workflows.
LEI-based services, including the Verifiable Credential or vLEI, make it possible for individuals to authenticate themselves and assert their rights to represent their organization. Rights could be as simple as approved spending limits, or as comprehensive and complex as condition-based legal electronic power of attorney. Using the same concept as “Sign in with Apple” or “Log in with Facebook”, Right to Represent uses LEI-based accounts to authenticate an individual’s organisation identity, affiliation and rights.
“To help prepare the market for digitalised trade systems, C4DTI is launching a package of new services: [including] A national campaign in partnership with Ubisecure and the Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF) to promote the adoption of Legal Entity Identities (LEIs), the widely recognised and standardised organisation identifier. These will enable companies to speed up due diligence checks, reduce fraud and efficiently track secure transactions of goods and finance.”
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Delivering true B2B Identity Management with IAM & LEI
Organisations are underserved and under-identified with no standard ability to express verified relationships. True B2B IAM can be achieved by combining strongly authenticated individuals with highly assured organisation identities.
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WHITE PAPER
By the Global LEI Foundation (GLEIF)
The future of Legal Entity Identification
GLEIF report investigating the inefficiencies of onboarding processes for Banks. Explores the benefits of a standard method to identify legal entities.
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CASE STUDY
How a nationwide identity management and delegation platform utilised Organisation Identity to reduce costs by 99%
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