Last week was a big step forward in the history of open company data, with the formation of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, which will oversee the global system of Legal Entity Identifiers, and ensure that the system is run in the public interest, carrying out the G20 Recommendations that set up the system. The … Continue reading Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) Foundation launched
Today, OpenCorporates announces a new sister website, Open LEIs, a user-friendly interface on the emerging Global Legal Entity Identifier System. At this point many, possibly most, of you will be wondering: what on earth is the Global Legal Entity Identifier System? And that's one of the reasons why we built Open LEIs. The Global Legal Entity Identifier … Continue reading Announcing Open LEIs: a user-friendly interface to the Legal Entity Identifier system
We did it – last week we went over the 40 million companies mark, with the addition of our 52st jurisdiction: Mauritius. As well as being quite a significant milestone in itself, we're also using this as an excuse to replace that alpha tag that's graced the top right hand corner of OpenCorporates since we launched with … Continue reading Major milestones: 40m companies, 50+ jurisdictions, moving out of alpha, getting respectable
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