Datatypes

Legal Entity Identifier

ID lei

The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a unique global identifier for legal entities participating in financial transactions. Also known as an LEI code or LEI number, its purpose is to help identify legal entities on a globally accessible database. Legal entities are organisations such as companies or government entities that participate in financial transactions. An individual person may not obtain an LEI.

Categories

Companies/business/organizations

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

AutoType benchmark

lei

Bioregistry

lei

Schema.org

leiCode

python-stdnum

stdnum.lei

Wikidata

P1278

FIBO

legal entity identifier

ORG-ID.guide

XI-LEI

Quality

80/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

2 rules (1 by field name, 1 by value)

• leifield field, common/crossborder_finance.yaml
• leivalue data, common/crossborder_finance.yaml

Supported by tools

Auto-Type, DataPrep, metacrafter, python-stdnum

Regular expression

[0-9A-Z]{18}[0-9]{2}

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Examples

Sources

• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Entity_Identifier
• wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1278

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/lei
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/companies/lei.yaml on GitHub