As digital identity continues to mature, a consistent challenge remains: how to operationalize trusted credentials at a global scale, across industries, jurisdictions, and existing systems. This challenge is particularly acute for organizational identity, where global commerce depends on strong verification, transparency, and interoperability.
That’s why Trinsic has officially joined the GLEIF Partners Program, a global initiative that supports the broader adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and the verifiable LEI (vLEI) by fostering collaboration among key industry players.
Governance-Led Trust for Global Business Identity
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) plays a unique and critical role in the global identity landscape. As the governance body of the Global LEI System, GLEIF defines the rules, requirements, and assurance framework that underpin trusted organizational identity worldwide. The introduction of the vLEI extends this model into the digital realm, enabling organizations to prove who they are and who is authorized to act on their behalf, using cryptographically verifiable credentials.
A significant milestone in this evolution is GLEIF’s formal recognition of digital identity as an acceptable method of identity proofing within its vLEI Ecosystem Governance Framework. By explicitly sanctioning digital ID as a first-class mechanism for verification, GLEIF is demonstrating that digital identity verification is suitable for scenarios that require a high degree of trust and setting a powerful precedent for adopting digital identity responsibly and at scale.
GLEIF’s governance-led approach, with clear rules, assurance levels, and compliance expectations, provides an effective path to accelerate the adoption of digital identity across regulated and high-trust environments.
Enabling LEI Issuers with Digital Identity Infrastructure
While GLEIF defines the requirements for issuing LEIs and vLEIs, LEI Issuers are responsible for performing the underlying identity verification needed to meet those requirements. This is where Trinsic comes in.
By joining the GLEIF Partners Program, Trinsic ensures that its wide range of digital identity solutions remains closely aligned with GLEIF’s vLEI Ecosystem Governance Framework. Trinsic enables vLEI issuers to consume dozens of eIDs through a single integration point, helping them meet governance requirements while reducing friction, cost, and complexity. Trinsic offers a trusted, standards-aligned path forward for eID support within the vLEI Ecosystem Governance Framework. Below are eIDs that are both included within said framework and also supported by Trinsic:
- e-CPF – Brazil
- DigiLocker (Aadhaar) – India
- PhilSys – Philippines
- Singpass – Singapore
- Belgian Citizen eCard – Belgium
- itsme® – Belgium
- Evrotrust eID – Bulgaria
- mojeID – Czech Republic
- MitID – Denmark
- eID card – Estonia
- Mobiil-ID / Mobile-ID – Estonia
- L’Identité Numérique La Poste – France
- SPID – Italy
- eParaksts – Latvia
- Lithuanian National Identity card (eID / ATK) – Lithuania
- BankID – Norway
- Cartão de Cidadão – Portugal
- BankID – Sweden
- Freja eID – Sweden
Trinsic also supports mobile driver’s licenses from almost 2 dozen states, from both OS wallets and state DMV wallets, and can meet the NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 requirement of the vLEI Ecosystem Governance Framework.
Advancing Digital Identity as a First-Class Citizen
“GLEIF’s inclusion of digital ID within its vLEI Ecosystem Governance Framework represents an important signal to the broader ecosystem of what is to come.” says Riley Hughes, CEO of Trinsic. “This demonstrates that digital IDs are not merely compatible with existing trust models, but are rapidly becoming a foundational component of them.”
“The GLEIF Partners Program brings together leading industry players to accelerate the adoption of the LEI and the verifiable LEI (vLEI). We are seeing growing interest from organizations seeking to join this initiative and position themselves at the forefront of digital identity and trusted business interactions. We are delighted to welcome Trinsic to the Partners Program and to see them leverage their expertise in identity assurance to support the continued development of the vLEI ecosystem.” – Karla McKenna, Managing Director of GLEIF Americas and Head of Standards
As verifiable credentials continue to gain traction globally, organizational identity will play an increasingly central role in digital trust. Trinsic’s participation in the GLEIF Partners Program underscores a shared commitment to building an open, interoperable identity ecosystem, one where governance, digital identity, and usability come together to unlock the full potential of the vLEI.
