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LEI in SWIFT messaging in Canada connects legal-entity identity with the SWIFT BIC through BIC-to-LEI mapping. The BIC identifies the organisation in financial messaging, while the LEI identifies the underlying legal entity.
Your SWIFT BIC identifies the organisation in financial messaging, while your LEI identifies the legal entity. The SWIFT and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI mapping links the two identifiers.
Correspondent banks can use BIC and LEI data together to connect messaging information with verified legal-entity identity, supporting entity verification and screening.
ISO 20022 payment messages support rich, structured party data, and the LEI can be included to identify a legal entity where the relevant message and implementation support it.
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No — the BIC is a messaging code; the LEI identifies the legal entity. They are mapped together.
To connect messaging identity to verified legal identity for screening and trust.
Yes — in structured party data.
Yes. Where an organisation has both identifiers, the BIC-to-LEI Relationship File can link its BIC with its LEI.