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Nigeria firms carry the LEI inside ISO 20022 structured party data — the global standard now underpinning payments and securities messaging — giving each party a verified legal identity.
ISO 20022 messages can carry the LEI in the organisation-identification element, linking a payment or instruction to a verified legal entity.
Without an LEI, party identification falls back to weaker identifiers, slowing screening and reconciliation.
As Nigeria's financial infrastructure adopts ISO 20022, maintaining a current LEI helps keep your payment messages accurate and efficient.
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It strongly supports it as the preferred legal-entity identifier in party data.
In the organisation-identification element.
Faster screening and reconciliation through verified identity.