MaxxTrader to Bolster Equiti’s Prime Services Equiti, an online trading technology provider, will be using the MaxxTrader foreign exchange platform from FlexTrade Systems as the basis for its prime of prime services offering, officials say. MaxxTrader will help Equiti provide its prime of prime customers with “global FX liquidity aggregation, trade execution management, and institutional… Read More >>
GLEIF Debuts Support for Machine-Readable LEIs
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is clearing a new path for LEIs by integrating them with the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), which facilitates the embedding of LEIs into digital, machine-readable financial documents. Integrating the LEI into digital business reports is intended to improve entity verification and ease online data aggregation, according to… Read More >>
Banks Could Save $150M via LEIs: McKinsey Report
The global adoption of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) could save investment banks more than $150 million and their banking colleagues up to $500 million in the issuance of letters of credit, according to a new white paper report that management consultancy McKinsey & Co. produced on behalf of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)…. Read More >>
FTF Awards Q&A: Winner of the Editor’s Choice Award
(Editor’s note: The following Q&A is with the 2017 winner of the Editor’s Choice Award for Operational Excellence Karla McKenna who is a director at Citi and the head of standards for the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). A specialist in financial standards, McKenna has been facilitating the development of GLEIF standards and is… Read More >>
Bloomberg Becomes an Official LEI Distributor
LOU Accreditation Comes in Time for MiFID II Bloomberg, which made its fortune in market data, trading systems and news, is stepping into the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) realm as an accredited Local Operating Unit (LOU) of the Global LEI System (GLEIS), officials say. The company has received “approval to issue and maintain” LEIs, and… Read More >>
GLEIF and ‘First Movers’ Complete LEI Process Test
GLEIF Works with First Mover LEI Issuers The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and five “first mover” Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) issuers have “successfully concluded a prototype exercise” that tested the end-to-end process of collecting and validating data on the direct and ultimate parents of legal entities that have an LEI, reports Stephan Wolf,… Read More >>
CFTC Blesses DTCC-SWIFT LEI Utility for Another Year
CFTC Hopes Global LEI System to Be More Operational in a Year The legal entity identifier (LEI) utility operated by the DTCC and SWIFT can continue for another year in the hope that the global LEI system will become fully operational in that time, according to the CFTC, which just issued an order extending the… Read More >>
Bloomberg Applies to Join Global LEI Effort
Bloomberg, the eponymous market data, trading systems and media company headed by the billionaire former New York City mayor, has applied to the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to become a local operating unit (LOU) in the global legal entity identifier system (GLEIS). Privately held Bloomberg is “working to establish the infrastructure and other… Read More >>
GLEIF Takes Charge of the LEI Effort
Editor’s note: The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the body overseeing the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, has taken center stage in the effort to promote the usage of the LEI standard. In fact, GLEIF has just launched the Global LEI Index, “a golden copy of all past and current LEI records including… Read More >>
GLEIF’s New Rules May Reject Current LEI Issuers
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) will be taking over the accreditation process for organizations that issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) via a new program that supersedes the efforts of the LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee (LEI ROC), say GLEIF officials. However, the new accreditation process is retroactive and could mean that some of the… Read More >>
