GLEIF
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, which maintains the LEI — a global, free, open standard for corporate identity — one of the wizard post's three public data sources.
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GLEIF
Overview
GLEIF — the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation — maintains the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), described by the wizard post as “global, free, open corporate identity data.” It is one of the three public data sources feeding the transparency pipeline (alongside SEC EDGAR and OpenCorporates). Its site is gleif.org.
Key Facts
- What the LEI is: a standardized, globally unique identifier for legally distinct entities that participate in financial transactions — the “who is this company, really” key that lets filings from different sources be joined.
- Why the post names it: open, free identity data is the connective tissue of a transparency pipeline — it lets an “open ledger” reconcile records about the same entity across EDGAR, OpenCorporates, and other feeds.
- Positioning: grouped with EDGAR and OpenCorporates as “nothing proprietary, nothing arcane” — swappable, public infrastructure.
Connections
- Radical Transparency — GLEIF is a source node in the pipeline.
- SEC EDGAR — the filings source the LEI helps key and join.
Sources
- Wizard Topples Capitalist Dominance Ingeniously — the architecture diagram and “Related Posts & Further Reading.”