LEI Fun Facts
99.88% of the entities that have been assigned by INSEE are French.
The GMEI has assigned pre-LEIs to 9 Yeshivas, more than 50 country clubs and over 20 museums, including the Cincinnati Baseball Museum and the National […]
IRS Deems Bitcoin Property, Not Currency
Bitcoin will be treated like property, not currency, the IRS declared in a Notice (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf) issued this week to address the tax implications of mining, spending or receiving virtual currencies. The need to track fair market value and basis adjustments to compute gains and losses for tax purposes introduces record-keeping realities to a […]
LEI Entities with Registered Domicile in a Top 10 Tax Haven
Over 20% of the almost 200,000 entities that have been assigned an LEI are registered in one of the world’s top 10 tax havens. (Forbes, July 6, 2010)
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Number of LEIs Issued to the Top 10 US Bank Holding Companies
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have been strong LEI proponents; it’s no surprise that they have the largest number of their entities registered for LEIs.
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Number of LEIs Issued to the Top 10 Largest Global Banks
When Lehman Brothers went bankrupt it had over 7000 legal entities in over 40 countries. So it seems from this chart that the large global banks have a long way to go before a high proportion of their legal entities are registered. Not surprisingly, the large […]
M&A Forecasts for 2014
The past few years there has been no limit to the number of bullish projections for M&A activity for the coming year. Most of these forecasts cited low interest rates and the tremendous amount of cash on corporate balance sheets as reasons for an improved M&A climate. As can be seen from the mergermarket […]
The Missing Mandates
The LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee (http://www.leiroc.org/) has, as of November 18, more than 50 members representing over 30 countries. Most of the committee members represent the central bank or another regulatory body in their respective jurisdictions. What continues to surprise and confuse market participants, though, is that to date only two regulatory bodies […]
Bitcoin Emergence Prompts FinCEN to Issue Guidance on Virtual Currencies
As Bitcoin gains recognition as a legitimate currency in the world of digital transactions, FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) has issued guidance on the regulations that apply to administrators and exchangers of virtual currencies that will test AML and KYC programs.
Swings in the market value of Bitcoins – tied to limited circulation […]
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CICI Self-Registration Data Requires Cleaning and Vetting
We responded to a number of calls following our post last week highlighting the challenges faced by the CICI Utility with regard to self-registration. One call came from a senior executive of the DTCC, who carefully explained that many of the data issues we highlighted were the result of business rules being applied to […]