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The value of the Legal Entity Identifier for the payments industry

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  • Cleland, Victoria

    (Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Innovation, Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AH, UK)

  • Hartsink, Gerard

    (Chairman, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, Switzerland)

Abstract

In November 2011, the G20 initiated the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) programme for the development of a global system to uniquely identify parties engaged in financial transactions. Since then, over 1.4 million legal entities in over 200 jurisdictions have registered for an LEI. This paper describes the progress made in the implementation of the programme and sets out the potential benefits that LEIs offer as a global means of verifying identity in payments. It describes existing plans to incorporate LEIs into payments through the move to the ISO 20022 messaging standard, and the existing barriers to this adoption. It concludes by laying out a ‘call to action’ to all market participants (national international, public and private) explaining the steps required to realise the full potential LEIs can bring to the payments industry and the wider economy.

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  • Cleland, Victoria & Hartsink, Gerard, 2019. "The value of the Legal Entity Identifier for the payments industry," Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 13(4), pages 322-336, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jpss00:y:2019:v:13:i:4:p:322-336
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    Keywords

    FSB; Bank of England; GLEIF; LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee; ISO 17442 LEI; ISO 20022; Legal Entity Identifier;
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    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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