Pre-local operating unit
UnaVista Offers LEI Allocation Service
London Stock Exchange platform partners with other market infrastructure providers for regulatory compliance
EMIR and Wikis: A Wealth of Data
Reporting requirement aspects of European EMIR regulation are spurring service provider offerings, along with concerns about legal entity identifier issuance. Also, wikis present a data sourcing choice for the industry.
Are You Sure You Don't Need A Pre-LEI?
Some industry participants have fallen into the trap of assuming requirements to report pre-legal entity identifiers under EMIR will not affect them, and they are running out of time to put things right
ROC Endorses More Pre-LOUs
The Regulatory Oversight Committee, which supervises legal entity identifiers globally, has approved pre-local operating units in Russia, Poland, the Netherlands and Finland
Europe's LEI Countdown
With the legal entity identifier set to become a mandatory requirement for derivatives trades in Europe in a matter of weeks, there are concerns that some financial firms are behind in their preparations and their clients will not register for an…
GS1 Consultant on Pre-LEI Consolidated File Project
Ken Traub of GS1 explains how the not-for-profit standards body and a consortium of three other organizations are helping the industry by making consolidated files of pre-legal entity identifier data and statistics on the data available on the P-LEI.org…
The March of LEI Progress
The legal entity identifier still has its hurdles to clear for full implementation, as panelists in an October 18 webcast acknowledge. Michael Shashoua reports their concerns about private-public cooperation, federated system structure and onboarding and…
LEI Committee Considers Translation Issues, Validation Processes
The Committee of Evaluation and Standards is investigating how historical data should be treated when a legal entity identifier record is transferred from one issuing utility to another; contingencies for entities that receive more than one LEI; the…
Swift's Janssens on CICI Changes: PART 2
Paul Janssens, Swift's legal entity identifier program director, explains how the messaging services provider and its partner, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, are helping users manage recent changes to the CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier…
Turkish Pre-LEI Utility Launched
Takasbank has begun to issue pre-legal entity identifiers and plans to launch an online registration portal before the end of the year
Irish Stock Exchange Launches Pre-LOU
The Irish Stock Exchange has begun issuing pre-legal entity identifiers, harnessing key capabilities of the Ex-Stream system it uses to service its international listings business
LEI Administrator Set to Name Board Members, Interim System Units
The regulatory oversight committee of the legal entity identifier project plans to reveal in coming days the board of directors of the LEI foundation and the results of applications by local operating units to become part of the interim LEI system
LSE Discusses its New Role Allocating Pre-LEIs
Emma Kalliomaki, the London Stock Exchange's head of SEDOL masterfile, discusses the processes it has put in place to ensure the uniqueness and validity of the pre-legal entity identifiers it issues in its new role as a pre-Local Operating Unit