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gleif_ownership — Corporate parent and fund relationships of legal entities (GLEIF, 2026)

Description

Networks of the corporate parent relationships, and of other relationships (fund management, subfunds, feeder funds, branches), among legal entities registered in the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, from the Golden Copy of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) of 1 October 2026 (00:00 UTC). Every legal entity that takes part in financial transactions (companies, funds, branches, government bodies, etc.) can obtain an LEI, a 20-character identifier, and must report to the LEI issuing organization its direct accounting consolidating parent and its ultimate accounting consolidating parent (the parents that consolidate it in their financial statements), if these have an LEI themselves; the issuing organizations validate the data (to different degrees, see the GLEIF documentation), which the GLEIF publishes three times per day as the "Golden Copy".

The entry has two networks. In parents, nodes are the legal entities that appear in at least one parent relationship, and a directed edge $(i,j)$ means that entity $j$ is the direct or the ultimate consolidating parent of entity $i$ (from child to parent). The two kinds of relationship between the same pair of entities are merged into a single edge, whose properties is_direct and is_ultimate say which of them apply (a direct parent that is not itself consolidated by another entity is also the ultimate parent, and both relationships are then usually reported: this is the case of 89,676 of the 170,510 edges). The relationship records of other kinds in the Golden Copy, which are not parent relationships (fund management, subfunds, feeder funds and international branches, about 229,000 records), are left out of parents. The network all contains all the relationship records of the Golden Copy (489,614), as they are: nodes are the entities that appear in at least one of them, and each record is a directed edge $(i,j)$ from its start node to its end node (e.g. from a fund to its manager), with its type (property type); there can be several edges between two entities. The "reporting exceptions", in which entities state the reason why they do not report a parent (e.g. a parent without an LEI, or a natural person), are not included in either network. Relationship records whose registration has lapsed (i.e., has not been renewed) are included, as are the few marked as inactive (see the property status). Four entities are reported as their own parents, and appear with self-loops in parents (in all, 3,223 records have the same start and end node). Four LEIs that appear in relationships have no LEI record in the Golden Copy, and their entity properties are empty. The percentages of ownership are given only for some relationships, as reported (20,579 edges of parents, 32,815 of all), and a few of them are larger than 100.

The entity data (name, country, legal form, etc.) are those of the LEI records of the same Golden Copy.

The networks have the following properties:

  • name: the legal name of the entity.
  • lei: the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) of the entity.
  • country: the country of the legal address of the entity (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code).
  • hq_country: the country of the headquarters address of the entity.
  • jurisdiction: the legal jurisdiction of the entity (ISO 3166-1 country or subdivision code).
  • category: the entity category (GENERAL, FUND, BRANCH, SOLE_PROPRIETOR, RESIDENT_GOVERNMENT_ENTITY or INTERNATIONAL_ORGANIZATION).
  • legal_form: the legal form of the entity, as a code of the ISO 20275 Entity Legal Forms (ELF) code list, or 8888 if the legal form is not in the list (then given by other_legal_form).
  • other_legal_form: the legal form of the entity, as text, if it has no ELF code.
  • entity_status: ACTIVE, INACTIVE (e.g. dissolved or merged entities), or NULL if not known.
  • registration_status: the status of the LEI registration (ISSUED, LAPSED if it has not been renewed, RETIRED, DUPLICATE, ANNULLED, PENDING_TRANSFER or PENDING_ARCHIVAL).
  • Edge type (only in all): the type of the relationship: IS_DIRECTLY_CONSOLIDATED_BY, IS_ULTIMATELY_CONSOLIDATED_BY, IS_FUND-MANAGED_BY, IS_SUBFUND_OF, IS_FEEDER_TO or IS_INTERNATIONAL_BRANCH_OF.
  • Edge is_direct (only in parents): whether $j$ is the direct consolidating parent of $i$.
  • Edge is_ultimate (only in parents): whether $j$ is the ultimate consolidating parent of $i$.
  • Edge percentage: the percentage of $i$ held by $j$, if reported (in parents, from the direct relationship if both are reported; NaN otherwise).
  • Edge status: the status of the relationship (ACTIVE, INACTIVE, or NULL if not known; in parents, from the direct relationship if both are reported).
  • Edge registration_status: the status of the registration of the relationship (PUBLISHED, LAPSED if it has not been renewed, and in a few records of all, PENDING_TRANSFER or PENDING_ARCHIVAL; in parents, from the direct relationship if both are reported).
Tags
Economic Commerce Unweighted Metadata
Citation
  • Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), "GLEIF Golden Copy and Delta Files." (2026) www.gleif.org
Upstream URL OK
https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy-and-delta-files
https://goldencopy.gleif.org/
Upstream license
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0), https://www.gleif.org/en/meta/lei-data-terms-of-use
Networks
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Column legend
$\left<k\right>$
Mean degree
$\sigma_k$
Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$
Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$
Random walk mixing time
$r$
Degree assortativity
$c$
Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$
(Pseudo-) diameter
$S$
Relative size of the largest component
NPs
Node properties
EPs
Edge properties
Name Nodes Edges $\left<k\right>$ $\sigma_k$ $\lambda_h$ $\tau$ $r$ $c$ $\oslash$ $S$ Kind Mode NPs EPs gt GraphML GML csv
parents 184,134 170,510 0.93 6.93 23.00 68.36 -0.07 0.02 5 0.01 Directed Unipartite lei name country hq_country jurisdiction category legal_form other_legal_form entity_status registration_status is_direct is_ultimate percentage status registration_status 6.9 MiB 9.6 MiB 9.4 MiB 9.4 MiB
all 357,105 489,614 1.37 14.68 28.95 28770.56 -0.06 0.01 45 0.26 Directed Unipartite lei name country hq_country jurisdiction category legal_form other_legal_form entity_status registration_status type percentage status registration_status 13.3 MiB 19.4 MiB 19.2 MiB 19.6 MiB
Ridiculograms*
parents drawing
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all drawing
all
* These are automatically generated force-directed visualizations, and can be quite meaningless for networks both big and small. They should not be taken seriously as sources of scientific insight. See here for a discussion.