LEI Reference Data

• Address:
The Address is the primary street information of the legal address of the entity according to the documentation for incorporation.

Each Address Line can have a maximum length of 100 characters, and any Unicode character is allowed.

Please use the following guidance when submitting Address information:

• Submit information on where the entity is incorporated, not where the entity is headquartered, physically operating, or other address alternatives.
• Information on the PO Box, Building, and Floor can be provided in Address Line 1 if necessary.
• Addresses should follow national postal address standards for the country of registration (where available). You may wish to review existing records within the jurisdiction you're registering to better understand the formatting for a specific jurisdiction.
• Country:
The Registered Country field will support the country value of the entity's Legal Address where available.


• Region:
The region is the legal state, prefecture, province or other administrative jurisdiction for the country of the entity following the ISO 3166 standard. This information can be found on the entity's documentation of incorporation.

Please use the following guidance when submitting the Region field:
• Submit the Region where the entity is incorporated, not where the entity is headquartered, physically operating, or other address alternatives.
• City:
The City is the legal city of the entity.

City has a maximum length of 50 characters, and any Unicode character is allowed.

Please use the following guidance when submitting the City field:
• Submit information on where the entity is incorporated, not where the entity is headquartered, physically operating, or other address alternatives.
• Postal Code:
The Postal Code (or Postal, ZIP, or PIN Code) is the legal Postal Code of the entity.

The Postal Code can have a maximum length of 20 characters, and any Unicode character is allowed.

Please use the following guidance when submitting the Postal Code field:
• Submit information on where the entity is incorporated, not where the entity is headquartered, physically operating, or other address alternatives.
• Postal Codes should follow national postal address standards for the country of registration (where available). You may wish to review existing records within the jurisdiction you're registering to better understand the formatting for a specific jurisdiction.

Address:

The Headquarters Address field will support the street address values of the entity's headquarters address where available.

Country:

The Headquarters Country field will support the country value of the entity's headquarters address where available.

Region:

The Headquarters Region field will support the Region value of the entity's headquarters address where available.

City:

The Headquarters City field will support the city value of the entity's headquarters address where available.

Postal Code:

The Headquarters Postal Code will support the Postal Code value of the entity's headquarters address where available.

Ultimate Parent:

The Ultimate Parent is the highest level legal entity preparing consolidated financial statements for the child entity.

Direct Parent

The Direct Parent is the lowest level legal entity preparing consolidated financial statements for the child entity.

Branch:

• The Branch must be a lead international branch or branch network outside of the headquarters jurisdiction.

The Branch must be registered in a publicly accessible local business registry.

The Headquarters of the branch must already have an LEI so that it can be associated with the LEI of the branch.

Successor LEI:

• The Successor LEI is the ultimate surviving record of a duplicate challenge process.
• The LEI record being viewed is a Duplicate LEI of the Successor LEI.

Duplicate LEI:

• The Duplicate LEI is a record which has lost the duplicate challenge process to the Successor LEI.
• The LEI record being viewed may have one or more Duplicate LEIs, which are listed in the 'Duplicate LEI' field.

Registration Status:

Registration Status refers to the status of the LEI record on the GMEI Portal (formerly referred to as "Renewal State"). Possible values for this field are:

• ISSUED - The LEI registration has been validated and issued.
• MERGED - The LEI registration for the entity has been merged into another legal entity, such that this legal entity no longer exists as an operating entity.
• RETIRED - The LEI registration for the entity has ceased operation, without being merged into another entity.
• DUPLICATE - The LEI registration has been determined to be a duplicate of another LEI Registration; the DUPLICATE status is assigned to the non-surviving registration (i.e. the LEI that should no longer be used).
• TRANSFERRED - An LEI registration that has been transferred to a different managing LOU.
• PENDING_TRANSFER - An LEI registration requested to be transferred to another LOU. The request is being processed at the sending LOU.
• PENDING_ARCHIVAL - An LEI registration is about to be transferred to a different LOU, after which its registration status will revert to a non-pending status.
• ANNULLED - An LEI registration that was marked as erroneous or invalid after it was issued.
• CANCELLED - An LEI registration that was abandoned prior to issuance of an LEI.

Entity Status:

Entity Status indicates whether the entity itself is active or inactive.

• ACTIVE is assigned to an entity that has independent legal status. Active entities include solvent companies in normal operation, as well as those entities which are in administration, in receivership, or bankrupt, but which still have legal status.
• INACTIVE is assigned for entities that no longer have independent legal status as a result of dissolution.

Managing LOU:

The Managing Local Operating Unit (LOU) field indicates which provider has management of the given entity record. The following pre-LOUs (with their assignment prefix) are currently supported by the GMEI Utility portal:

• GMEI Utility (5493) - Managing entity records in over 230 jurisdictions

If the Managing LOU field is not one of those supported by the GMEI Utility portal, then the record is being renewed by another LOU. As a result, the record on the GMEI Utility Issued Database may be out of date, and the user should refer to the other LOU listed in this field for further information. For an up-to-date list of prefixes, please visit www.leiroc.org.

Legal Form:

The Legal Form is dependent upon the jurisdiction of the entity. Oftentimes, the legal form of an entity is appended to the Legal Name. The values for this field are dependent upon the legal country that is selected.

Entity Category:

Indicates (where applicable) the category of the entity identified by this LEI data record, as a more specific category within the broad definition given in ISO 17442. Selecting an Entity Category is optional when Registering or Renewing an Entity on the GMEI Utility.

Permissible values for Entity Category include:

• BANK: The legal entity is a bank.
• BRANCH: The legal entity is a branch of another legal entity. (Note: Branch records must define a Headquarters Relationship. For additional guidance, see Level 2 Data on page 7.)
• CORPORATION: The legal entity is a corporate entity.
• FUND: The legal entity is a fund managed by another legal entity.
• GOVERNMENT: The legal entity is a government entity, department, ministry, or municipal.
• SOLE_PROPRIETOR: The legal entity is an individual acting in a business capacity.
• OTHER: All other legal entities not covered by an existing category.

Validation Sources:

The level of validation of the reference data provided by the registrant. Possible values for this field are:

• FULLY_CORROBORATED - Based on the validation procedures in use by the LOU responsible for the record, there is sufficient information contained in authoritative public sources to corroborate the information that the submitter has provided for the record.
• PARTIALLY_CORROBORATED - Based on the validation procedures in use by the LOU responsible for the record, the information supplied by the registrant can be partially corroborated by public authoritative sources, while some of the record is dependent upon the information that the registrant submitted, either due to conflicts with authoritative information, or due to data unavailability.
• ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY - Based on the validation procedures in use by the LOU responsible for the record, the information associated with this record has significant reliance on the information that a submitter provided due to the unavailability of corroborating information.
• PENDING - The validation of the reference data provided by the registrant has not yet occurred.

Registration Authority ID/Registration Authority Entity ID:

The registration authority ID field includes the name of a registration authority ID when it is available and legally permissible. The value "RA888888 : Other" should be selected when a temporary value is needed, assuming a Registration Authority code has been requested. The value "RA999999 : No Registration Authority Available" should be chosen when no registration authority is available for this legal entity.

The registration authority ID number field includes an entity's identifier in a given registration authority ID where available and legally permissible. This field is enabled when a registration authority ID is selected.