The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has recently published a list of current and proposed initiatives using the global LEI for regulatory reporting and supervision. Authorities in individual jurisdictions mandate the use of these increasingly important pieces of reference data. GLEIF is monitoring the initiatives and will continue to update this list regularly. At […]
This week XBRL International has released a new draft LEI taxonomy. The LEI taxonomy is intended to provide a single and consistent way for regulators (and companies) to use LEIs within XBRL reports.
OFR Speaks Out on Regulatory Burden. The spirit of the founding US Treasurer, Alexander Hamilton, seems alive and well at that agency. At the recent Financial Data Summit held in Washington, the Director of the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research, Dick Berner described the importance, to that agency, of reducing regulatory burden, describing the way […]
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Frankfurt, Germany was the site of the first meeting of the new joint XII/GLEIF Legal Identity in XBRL (LIX) Working Group. The WG aims to define and recommend mechanisms to use the Legal Entity Identifier in consistent ways within XBRL documents. The LEI is today used by a number of leading regulators, and there is […]
XII, in cooperation with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), is forming a working group to examine and make concrete recommendations about the consistent use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) within XBRL taxonomies and instance documents.
One of the key messages to come out of the Data Coalition’s “Financial Data Summit” this week was that marrying the private sector’s technical expertise with government’s capacity to set the policy agenda is what will move open data forward.
EIOPA has issued guidelines on the use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) by national competent authorities to allow the use of these unique identification code for insurance and reinsurance undertakings across Europe. Unless their national regulator advises differently, regulated institutions that need to apply the Solvency II Directive must apply for their LEI(s) by 30 June […]
China’s central bank announced on Monday that an online system for the registration of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) has been established and put into operation, joining a global effort to strengthen financial stability.
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