Use cases of vLEI

Early stage use-cases examples include:1

  • Digitally signing regulatory filings and reports
  • Expediting supply chain due diligence processes.
  • Verifying business payments
  • Expediting membership and registration to payment systems.
  • Accelerating business entity registration and license issuance
  • Streamlining and accelerating client onboarding/ Know Your Customer processes for financial and other providers of certain regulated services.
  • Facilitating customs and border control checks
  • Confirming authenticity when applying for and vetting trusted network membership.
  • Securing the remote execution of business contracts
  • To support data protection in all use-cases, including those mandated by regulation

Verifiable corporate documentation and communications

  • Company and signatory-specific documents and reports;
  • Regulatory filing and reporting by a third-party filer on behalf of the filer/reporting entity or by an auditor;
  • Contracts and legal agreements;
  • Private, secure, peer-to-peer communication with customers, employees, and other stakeholders.

Counterparty verification supporting digital business interaction/automation

  • Client/counterparty due diligence and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance;
  • Import/export, supply chain, customs/border control, payment for goods (e-invoicing);
  • Authorized signatory verification;
  • e-invoice and e-payment instruction validation.

Licensing and corporate registration

  • Trusted supplier/provider network membership and registration;
  • Payment systems membership and registration;
  • Business entity registration and licenses;
  • Educational institutions – qualification certification and verification.

Other use cases

  • Digital wallets, digital asset management, and decentralized finance;
  • Verification of transacting parties;
  • Employee and authorized agent ID for any organizational use-case.

Enhance Security, Reduce Fraud and Simplify Compliance

  • Enhance security of Autonomic Identifiers (AIDs) and vLEI credentials by replacing an administrative root of trust with a cryptographic root of trust;
  • Ensure complete, cryptographically verifiable auditability of transactions and other interactions involving vLEIs and sub-identifiers;
  • Resist quantum computer attacks;
  • Combine with other verifiable factors to further increase security, such as:
    a. identity / biometrics
    b. delegated multi-signature capabilities

Enhance Independent Control, Efficiency, Scalability and Sustainability

  • Eliminate dependence on any single SSI utility network by delivering the vLEI infrastructure using an interoperable and technology agnostic approach;
  • Reduce dependence on SSI utility network governance structures beyond the control of GLEIF;
  • Ensure highly performant global scalability;
  • Establish global best practices for key management;
  • Aid the development of a competitive market for all the software, tools, and services necessary to implement vLEIs;
  • Work with QVIs to ensure a sustainable commercial model for vLEIs for GLEIF, QVIs, and Legal Entities and other vLEI Ecosystem stakeholders.

Read more about use cases of the vLEI at GLEIF.org

  1. https://www.gleif.org/vlei/introducing-the-vlei-ecosystem-governance-framework/2023-08-30_verifiable-lei-vlei-ecosystem-governance-framework-primary-document_v1.1_final.pdf ↩︎