Securities and MiFID II
Legal entities trading shares, bonds or other reportable instruments are commonly asked for an active LEI.
Registration Agent
Get your LEI — fast.
Apply through LEIFast. Your LEI is validated and issued by a GLEIF-accredited LOU, and we email your certificate when the record is live.
Same-day for qualified applications
PDF certificate included
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Choose a plan
Choose a term to open the application.
VAT added where required. GLEIF fee included. No extra transfer fee.
Four clear steps to an LEI.
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Choose 1, 3 or 5 years
The one-year plan is self-renewed. Multi-year plans include our annual confirmations for the full term.
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Confirm your company
Start with a register search, then check the legal details and add ownership information if required.
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Review and pay
See the full term total before payment. The GLEIF fee is included.
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Receive your certificate
The issuing LOU validates and publishes the LEI. We email the PDF when the record is Issued.
Why LEIFast
A direct route from application to issuance.
Choose a term first, then complete one guided form. We handle the file as your Registration Agent.
- Start the application from any plan in one click.
- Use company lookup instead of retyping every available detail.
- Choose one year to renew yourself, or one payment for three or five years of annual confirmations.
- A GLEIF-accredited LEI issuer (LOU) validates and issues the code.
You may need an LEI when a bank, broker or regulator must identify your legal entity.
Derivatives and EMIR
Derivative reporting identifies legal-entity counterparties by LEI. The record generally needs to be current.
Banking and treasury
Banks may request an LEI for onboarding, lending, treasury activity or certain cross-border payments.
Funds and special-purpose entities
Funds, issuers, SPVs and subsidiaries may each need their own identifier; a parent’s LEI is not a substitute.
Financial-sector suppliers
Financial clients may request an LEI when recording and assessing third-party providers.
Crypto-asset services
Regulated crypto businesses may use LEIs in licensing, reporting and counterparty identification.
Learn who needs an LEI and how the identifier works.
An LEI is a unique 20-character identifier for a legal entity.
Built to ISO 17442, an LEI links a legal entity to a public GLEIF record containing its official name, registered address, status and, where applicable, parent information.
Banks, brokers and regulators use that record to identify the same entity across systems and borders. The code remains the same, but its reference data must be confirmed each year to keep the status current.
LEIFast is a Registration Agent, not an issuer or LOU. We collect and check the application and submit it to the GLEIF-accredited issuing LOU, which validates and issues the LEI.
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LEIFast helps companies apply for, renew and transfer a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) online. As an official Registration Agent of WM Datenservice, a GLEIF-accredited LEI issuer, we prepare and submit your application, and the issuer validates and publishes the code. Plans cost 49 € for 1 year, 135 € for 3 years or 195 € for 5 years, with the GLEIF fee included.
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LEI questions, answered clearly.
A Legal Entity Identifier is a unique 20-character code for a legal entity. Its reference data is public in the GLEIF index.
Legal entities may need one to trade certain financial instruments, report derivatives, use financial services or meet a bank’s or counterparty’s requirements.
A GLEIF-accredited LEI issuer (LOU) validates and issues the code. LEIFast acts as the Registration Agent.
Qualified applications can be issued on the same working day. Missing evidence, complex ownership or further validation can take longer.
The code remains assigned, but its reference data must be confirmed annually. A one-year plan is self-renewed; our 3- and 5-year plans include annual confirmations during the term.
Renew it if LEIFast already manages the record. If another provider manages it, transfer it first at no extra charge. The code stays the same.
The annual confirmation is overdue. The code still identifies the entity, but many counterparties require the registration status to be Issued.
We need the legal name, registry details, addresses, contact information and, where applicable, accounting-parent information.
They may be required to prove authority to act, an accounting-parent relationship or details that cannot be verified in a public register.
Use our LEI search to query the GLEIF index and verify the entity, registration status and next renewal date.