LEI Lookup & Company Search – Official GLEIF, No-Match Free

What does LEI Lookup & Company Search do?

This Actor looks up companies in the official GLEIF Global LEI Index – the free, public register of 2.9+ million Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) used by banks, KYC/AML, procurement and compliance teams. Search in bulk by:

• LEI code (20 characters) – validate and enrich lists of LEIs
• Company name – smart fuzzy matching that ranks the best match first, with a matchScore
• National registration number – Companies House, KBO/BCE, Handelsregister, KVK, SIREN… (common formats are normalised automatically)

Each result includes legal name, other/former names, legal & HQ address, legal form, jurisdiction, registration authority & number, entity status, LEI renewal dates, BIC codes and – optionally – the direct and ultimate parent company (corporate ownership, GLEIF Level 2 data).

Use cases

• ✅ KYC / AML onboarding – verify counterparties and check whether their LEI is still ISSUED or LAPSED
• 🏦 MiFID II / EMIR reporting – validate LEIs before regulatory reporting
• 🔗 Corporate hierarchy – find parent and ultimate parent companies
• 🧹 CRM / vendor master data cleanup – match messy company names to an official legal entity and ID
• 📅 LEI renewal monitoring – schedule a run and catch lapsing LEIs (nextRenewalDate)

Input example

{
  "leis": ["HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394"],
  "companyNames": ["Siemens AG", "Anheuser-Busch InBev"],
  "registrationNumbers": ["0417.497.106"],
  "nameMatching": "fuzzy",
  "country": "",
  "onlyActive": false,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 3,
  "includeParents": true
}

Output example

{
  "lei": "529900NNUPAGGOMPXZ31",
  "legalName": "Siemens Aktiengesellschaft",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "registrationStatus": "ISSUED",
  "jurisdiction": "DE",
  "registeredAs": "HRB 6684",
  "legalAddressCity": "München",
  "legalAddressCountry": "DE",
  "nextRenewalDate": "2027-01-20T00:00:00Z",
  "bic": [],
  "directParentName": null,
  "ultimateParentName": null,
  "matchScore": 1,
  "query": "Siemens AG",
  "queryType": "name",
  "found": true
}

Queries with no match are also listed (found: false) so you can see which rows didn't resolve. You are not charged for those. A SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists all unmatched queries.

How much does it cost?

$3 per 1,000 entity records found, plus a tiny start fee per run. Not-found queries are free.

Notes

• Data comes from the official GLEIF API (public, CC0-licensed). The Actor respects GLEIF's rate limit, so very large batches of names take a while; LEI lookups are batched 100 at a time and are fast.
• Questions or feature requests? Open an issue – I usually respond within 24 hours.