LEI Lookup & Company Enrichment (Official GLEIF API)

Turn a list of LEI codes or company names into clean, structured company data from the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF): legal name, legal and headquarters address, entity and LEI status, registration and renewal dates, company register ID, legal form, direct and ultimate parent, BIC and ISIN codes.

Ideal for KYC/KYB, counterparty onboarding, MiFID II / EMIR reporting checks, supplier master-data clean-up, and CRM enrichment.

What does LEI Lookup do?

• 🔎 Bulk LEI lookup: 100 LEIs per API call, fast and cheap
• 🧠 Company name → LEI matching with GLEIF fuzzy search, re-ranked by our own similarity score (legal suffixes such as S.p.A., GmbH, N.V. are ignored)
• 🌍 Country filter for name matches (e.g. only IT, DE)
• 🏢 Ownership: direct and ultimate accounting-consolidation parent, or the official reason GLEIF reports none (e.g. NO_KNOWN_PERSON)
• 💹 ISINs and BICs mapped to the entity
• ✅ Offline ISO 17442 checksum validation: mistyped LEIs are flagged instantly and never charged
• ⏰ Spot lapsed LEIs (registrationStatus = LAPSED, nextRenewalDate in the past) before they break your regulatory reports
• 📤 Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or via API, Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets

Why use it?

• KYB / onboarding: verify a counterparty's legal name, address and registry number in seconds
• Regulatory reporting: make sure every counterparty LEI in your trade reports is valid and not lapsed
• Group structures: map subsidiaries to their ultimate parent for credit exposure or sanctions screening
• Data enrichment: add registry IDs and legal forms to supplier or customer lists

How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event: $2.00 per 1,000 LEI records returned ($0.002 each). Invalid LEIs and names with no match are listed in the output for free. Parents and ISINs are included in the same price (they only make the run slower). Use Maximum cost per run to cap your spend.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Paste LEI codes and/or Company names.
3. Optionally enable Include direct and ultimate parent and Include ISINs.
4. Start the run and export the results.

Input example

{
  "leis": ["5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12", "549300RIVY5EX8RCON76"],
  "companyNames": ["Ferrari N.V."],
  "maxMatchesPerName": 1,
  "minNameSimilarity": 60,
  "countryFilter": [],
  "includeParents": true,
  "includeIsins": false,
  "maxRequestsPerMinute": 55
}

Output example

{
  "query": "5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
  "matchType": "lei",
  "matchScore": 1.0,
  "found": true,
  "lei": "5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
  "legalName": "Bloomberg Finance L.P.",
  "entityStatus": "ACTIVE",
  "entityCategory": "GENERAL",
  "legalFormCode": "T91T",
  "jurisdiction": "US-DE",
  "country": "US",
  "legalAddress": {"addressLines": ["C/O Corporation Service Company", "251 Little Falls Drive"], "city": "Wilmington", "region": "US-DE", "postalCode": "19808", "country": "US"},
  "registrationAuthorityId": "RA000602",
  "registeredAs": "4348344",
  "registrationStatus": "ISSUED",
  "nextRenewalDate": "2027-01-25T16:50:02Z",
  "directParent": {"lei": "549300B56MD0ZC402L06", "legalName": "Bloomberg L.P.", "country": "US", "exception": null},
  "ultimateParent": {"lei": "549300RMUDWPHCUQNE66", "legalName": "Bloomberg Inc.", "country": "US", "exception": null},
  "gleifUrl": "https://search.gleif.org/#/record/5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-08T03:57:29+00:00"
}

Rows with found: false carry an error: INVALID_LEI_CHECKSUM, LEI_NOT_FOUND, NO_MATCH or NO_MATCH_IN_COUNTRY. Views: Overview and Ownership. A SUMMARY record with counts is saved in the key-value store.

Speed

GLEIF allows about 60 API requests per minute per client, and the Actor respects that limit. LEI lists are fetched 100 at a time (thousands of LEIs per minute). Name matching needs 2 requests per name, and parents add 2-4 requests per record.

Data source and legal

All data comes from the official GLEIF REST API (api.gleif.org). GLEIF data is published as open data under CC0 and may be reused freely. No scraping, no login. GLEIF is not affiliated with this Actor. Records of sole proprietors can contain personal data: process them only for a legitimate purpose.

FAQ

• Does it support LEI → ISIN? Yes, enable Include ISINs.
• Can I search by registry number (e.g. Italian REA or German HRB)? Not yet. Open an issue if you need it.
• Found a bug? Use the Issues tab; we answer within 24 hours.

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