A Legal Entity Identifier is the 20-character code a bank or broker asks for before your company can buy bonds, shares or funds, or hedge currency. We register a new LEI, renew an existing one or take it over from another issuer.
Straight from the global LEI database. If your company invests, issues bonds or supplies banks, it is probably already expected to be on this list.
1,274 more let theirs lapse, and a lapsed LEI stops a trade just like a missing one. For comparison: 5,242 companies in Lithuania and 29,961 in Estonia hold an LEI.
Source: GLEIF, the global LEI database, data as of 23.09.2026. search.gleif.org
One code per company. The longer the term, the lower the price per year, and the yearly renewals inside the term are already paid.
Pay for one year and renew every year.
Three years without thinking about a renewal.
The lowest price per year and the longest term available.
Prices without VAT; Latvian VAT is 21% where it applies. Also available: 2 years for €98.19 and 4 years for €182.35. Renewal or transfer of an LEI issued elsewhere: €56.11 for one year. Questions? Contact us
Move it to us together with its next year: €56.11 without VAT (€67.89 with VAT). The code stays the same, we take over the renewals.
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) is a 20-character code under the ISO 17442 standard that identifies one company in financial transactions anywhere in the world. It is linked to the legal name, the registration number, the addresses and, where there is one, the parent company, and anyone can look it up in the public GLEIF database.
Regulators introduced it after the 2008 financial crisis so that every party to a financial deal is identified the same way. Since January 2018 an investment firm in the EU may not execute a trade for a company that has no LEI: no LEI, no trade.
An LEI is valid for one year at a time. If it is not renewed, its status becomes lapsed, and banks and brokers treat a lapsed code like a missing one.
The full guide: what an LEI number holds, Level 1 and 2 data, regulations and renewal
Most companies never do. These do, and their bank or broker will ask for it.
Buying bonds, shares, funds or ETFs through a company account at a bank or an online broker. Without an LEI the order is not executed.
Forwards, swaps and options with a bank are derivatives, and EMIR reporting needs the LEI of both sides of the deal.
A company that lists bonds or shares on Nasdaq Riga or First North, or offers them to investors, needs an LEI as the issuer.
Under DORA, banks, insurers and investment firms keep a register of their IT and service suppliers. An EU supplier is listed by its LEI or its EU company number, a supplier from outside the EU only by its LEI, so suppliers get asked for one more and more often.
Investment funds, fund managers, payment and e-money institutions and other supervised firms report under their LEI.
Some foreign banks, trade finance desks and tenders ask for an LEI to check exactly who they are dealing with.
A few minutes of information. The legal name and the addresses come from the Register of Enterprises.
The company number in the Register of Enterprises (Uzņēmumu reģistrs). For a company outside Latvia, the number in its own national register.
First and last name of a board member listed in the register. If someone else orders, such as an accountant or a lawyer, we need a signed authorisation letter from the company.
Whether another company consolidates your accounts, and which company is at the top. If there is one, it needs an LEI too. If the owners are private persons, we simply record that.
Where the confirmation request, the code and later the renewal notice go.
Pick the term and fill in the registration number, the signing board member and the parent company answer right in the cart.
Pay the invoice online by card, bank transfer or another method from your client area. After payment we submit the data to the issuer during working hours, 9:00 to 17:00 on working days.
The issuer checks the data against the register and publishes your LEI. In Latvia this takes from 4 hours to about 3 working days.
A Legal Entity Identifier: a 20-character code under ISO 17442 that identifies one company in financial transactions anywhere in the world. It is linked to the legal name, registration number, addresses and parent company, and it is published in the public GLEIF database.
Only if it deals with financial markets. You need one to buy or sell bonds, shares, funds or ETFs through a company account, to hedge currency or interest rates with a bank, to issue securities, or when a bank, insurer or investment firm asks for it from you as a supplier. A company that only invoices customers and pays suppliers does not need one.
56.11 EUR for one year, 140.27 EUR for three years and 224.43 EUR for five years, without VAT. Renewal or transfer of an LEI issued elsewhere costs 56.11 EUR for one year.
From 4 hours to about 3 working days after you confirm the data and pay. The issuer checks every record against the Register of Enterprises before it publishes the code.
One year from issue or from the last renewal. With a 3 or 5 year term you pay once, and the yearly renewals within that term are already covered.
Yes. We take over the existing code and renew it for 56.11 EUR for one year. The code itself stays the same, so nothing changes for your bank or broker.
Its status in GLEIF changes to lapsed, and banks and brokers treat it like a missing code: trades are not executed until it is renewed. A lapsed code can be renewed at any time and keeps the same number.
Yes. The code, the legal name, the registration number, the addresses and the parent company are public in the GLEIF database and free to search. The name of the person who ordered the code is not published.
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