Legal entity identifier
The observed, reported, measured, or estimated legal entity identifier for an organisation, on the basis and date stated by the source.
Sources that carry it
4 sourcesPublic governmental filer-submissions product delivered as an unauthenticated per-CIK JSON API and the same product's nightly submissions.zip archive. It exposes filer identity and classification, contact/address metadata, former names, tickers and exchanges, compact current filing-history scalar arrays, references to additional historical JSON files, and the corresponding historical filing-metadata arrays. Filing documents, exhibits, XBRL facts, and filer submission/status workflows are outside this Source.
Public global REST/JSON:API access to the Golden Copy-derived LEI search engine. Organisations can be selected by LEI or searched by legal-entity fields; singular responses expose Level 1 identity/status and reported direct/ultimate accounting-consolidating parent Relationship Records. No beneficial-owner or transitive graph inference is made.
Global CC0 full/delta file family published three times daily in CSV, JSON, and XML. One product includes Level 1 LEI-CDF, Level 2 RR-CDF relationship records, and reporting exceptions, with exact scalar leaves inside documented repeated periods and qualifiers. Relationships are reported accounting-consolidation relationships, not inferred beneficial ownership.
One public investment-adviser registry Source combining IAPD arbitrary firm/representative lookup with current XML compilations and historical Form ADV Part 1 CSV archives. Exact scalar leaves cover firm and representative identity, registrations, offices, owners/executives, affiliations, employment, business activities, filing pins, and disclosure indicators. Private-residence location/contact leaves and document bodies are excluded.
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