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@ Eurofiling Frankfurt 2016, June 2nd Visibility. Stability. Integrity. Author: Stephan Wolf – GLEIF CEO June 2, 2016 © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 1 | 28 Who is GLEIF . The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is a Swiss foundation inaugurated in June 2014 and founded by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), overseen by 70 global regulators in the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) . GLEIF Board with 18 independent directors Employee by country GER (June 2016), chaired by Gerard Hartsink AUS 1 1 USA 1 CHN 1 10 KOR 1 . GLEIF in Numbers: LBN 1 Revenue 2015 – 6,1M USD IND Number of employees – 25 PUR 1 POE 1 Partners for LEI issuing (LOUs) – 28 UK 1 2 1 Registered LEIs (May 2016) – 440.000 IRL 3 MEX NED © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 2 | 28 GLEIF Mission Statement Each business should have only one identity. GLEIF manages a network of partners to provide trusted services and open, reliable data for unique legal entity identification worldwide. © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 3 | 28 GLEIF Core Competencies The fundamental capabilities that set us apart and enable us to uniquely serve our constituents. GLEIF as Accreditation Agency runs a leading quality management system for its network of partners. GLEIF is recognized and trusted partner in Identification Management for legal entities. GLEIF supplies a defined and growing range of value added services to the . Accreditation public / private sector. ID Management . Service © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 4 | 28 GLEIF Strategic Objectives . Provide high quality services to all users of public and private sector . Reach and maintain an overall data quality level meeting expectation of the LEI users . Grow the total LEI population to cover all mandated use cases . Manage the GLEIS effectively and efficiently so as to achieve lowest costs for the industry © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 5 | 28 Global LEI System (GLEIS) as a Legal Network © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 6 | 28 Number of LEIs per country Total LEIs Issued as of 31 March 2016: 428,300 Count Count of LEIs for operating entities © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 7 | 28 GLEIF services: Daily concatenated file and online search engine . GLEIF collects daily the LEI data from the LOUs (Local Operating Units) and publishes the concatenated file in the Common Data File format (see next page). All LEI data are free of charge downloadable from www.gleif.org. Search results are available in various formats. The search engine also allows search with multiple criteria. Additional features are planned to be included in the LEI reference data such as the Business Register ID and Legal Entity Form ISO 20275 . There will be a golden copy file available which is generated out of the database with always up to date LEI records © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 8 | 28 GLEIF Concatenated File on www.gleif.org © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 9 | 28 Next Steps 1. “Who is who” . Rollout of GLEIF services is the current key focus of the GLEIF . GLEIF was mandated by the ROC to add standardized reporting of the Business Registry to the Common Data File before September 2016. GLEIF was mandated by the ROC to add the Entity Legal Form (ISO 20275) to the Common Data File in 2016 2. “Who owns whom” – Level 2 Data . On 10 March 2016 the LEI ROC published a document, entitled ‘Collecting data on direct and ultimate parents of legal entities in the Global LEI System – Phase 1. The paper sets forth the policy design of a process for collecting ‘Level 2’ data, to complement the existing ‘Level 1’ LEI reference data. The ROC has mandated GLEIF to manage the project implementation of Level 2 data collection. © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 10 | 28 Additional Requirements The ROC mandated the development and use of a Registration Authorities Code List mainly for two purposes: Linking of LEIs with codes of local official registers Specification and optional use of a 3rd party validation source for LEI-RD. Market Participants Example: Name: The J. M. Smucker Company Address: 1 Strawberry Lane…. LEI Code LEI: 5493000WDH6A0LHDJD55 . … BR-Code: 98575 Business Register BR-ID: US036 . Business Register BR: Ohio Secretary of State . Code . BR Code . Name . Address © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 11 | 28 Legal Entities – Relationships Based on the different entity types and already existing relationship types result a certain complexity in data management and quality assurance. GLEIF collects and disseminates the data from the LOUs. To monitor and ensure quality is a major service of GLEIF. CDF - LEI LEI records LEI © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 12 | 28 Legal Entities – Relationships II Next step in the evolution of the GLEIS is the introduction of relationships between Legal Entities and their Direct and Ultimate Parents. Out of several optional relationship types the ROC policy defines “Accounting Consolidation” as first implementation (full consolidation in parent balance sheet). The relation itself shall be designed as “object” coming with certain attributes. CDF - LEI CDF - RR LEI “is owned by” LEI records Relationship records Relationship . Name . Type . … © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 13 | 28 Legal Entities – Regulatory Mandate for Relationships In coming years the evolution of the GLEIS will allow for relationships beyond Direct and Ultimate Parents, e.g.: . Joint ventures . Partial ownership and control . Executives and Members of Boards . Credit securities and collaterals LEI “has relations with” LEI Relationships © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 14 | 28 Risk Management in Financial Markets - Outlook . The LEI was created as vehicle to provide more transparency about market participants . The LEI contributes to and facilitates many financial stability objectives , including: LEI . improved risk management . better assessment of micro and macro- Instruments prudential risks . facilitation of orderly resolution . containing market abuse and curbing UTI financial fraud . higher overall quality and accuracy of financial data UPI . In order to help achieving these objectives Corporate the LEI should be embedded deeply in the Actions financial markets. © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 15 | 28 Link to Financial reports – Market Demand . In order to enable public sector surveillance of financial markets, the LEI is already an important part of required reporting to financial markets regulators. Linking the LEI to financial reporting information through XBRL is the next step for allowing the private sector to also benefit from the LEI as a means to evaluate investment opportunities, to monitor financial condition, and to conduct market analyses. © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 16 | 28 Appendix For more information, please see the following slides. © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 17 | 28 Global LEI System relationship and governance documents Relationship Documents FSB mandates MOU Master Agreement ROC GLEIF LOU Governance Documents ROC Charter GLEIF Statutes Statutes of a LOU 1. Global LEI System High Level Principles 2. Recommendations for the development and implementation of the Global LEI System © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 18 | 28 The role of the GLEIF in the Global LEI System GLEIF performs four main functions: 1. Rulemaking: proposes, defines, issues and enforces worldwide uniform operational and technical standards and protocols for LEIs and LEI Reference Data. GLEIF published on 7 October 2015 the Master Agreement which is the contract between the GLEIF and the LOUs. 2. Operations: provides the technical infrastructure necessary to unite the LEI information published by the LOUs and to make publicly available at www.gleif.org the Global LEI Index 3. Monitoring: accredits LOUs and monitors compliance of LOUs and users with the operational and technical standards and protocols. Since January 2016 GLEIF publishes a monthly LEI Data Quality Report with key statistics and the underlying LEI Data Quality Checks (also for comments). 4. Communication: makes all relevant documentation available at www.gleif.org in 13 different languages (July 2016). © 2016 GLEIF and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | June 2016 | | GLEIF unrestricted | 19 | 28 Financial Stability Board press release (30 June 2014) . “Unique identification of parties to financial transactions underpins multiple financial stability objectives.” Improved risk management in firms Better assessment of micro and macro prudential risks Facilitation of orderly resolution