The Central Securities Depository of Poland KDPW (Krajowy Depozyt Papierów Wartościowych) has revamped its website and issuance application for Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs), intended to streamline the creation and usage of LEIs, officials say. The changes are available via the established website address: https://www.lei.kdpw.pl/ The LEI is “a 20-character alpha-numeric globally unique legal entity identifier… Read More >>
SWIFT & GLEIF Build MIC-to-LEI Bridge & Other News
GLEIF Launches Open Source MIC-to-LEI Mapping SWIFT, the global financial messaging services and systems cooperative, and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) are cooperating to offer financial services firms a new, free way to gather, aggregate, and reconcile counterparty information via a new interoperability across parallel identity platforms, officials say. GLEIF reports that it… Read More >>
Hardware Glitches Halt TSE Trading for a Day
Tokyo Stock Exchange Said to Relaunch Oct. 2 The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is slated to resume trading on Friday, Oct. 2, after an unprecedented halt to trading for a full day because of hardware glitches that prevented the distribution of market data, according to TSE officials. “Currently, the Tokyo Stock Exchange is proceeding… 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 >>
