News
13 June 2019

ADB survey says even developing country SMEs should use LEI

Acquiring a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is easy and inexpensive, even for SMEs in remote developing countries, according to a survey by the ADB. The ADB’s head of trade and supply chain finance, Steven Beck asserts, “global adoption of the LEI would be transformative: close trade...

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