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GLEIF qualifies TrustAsia as vLEI Issuer
27 October 2026 Switzerland
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The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has qualified TrustAsia Technologies (TrustAsia) as a vLEI Issuer, enabling it to issue verifiable LEI credentials to organisations and their authorised representatives.
The firm says that as a vLEI Issuer, TrustAsia will explore how vLEIs can add verifiable organisational identity and authority to signed PDF documents and Content Credentials developed by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), which enables recipients to verify both the legal entity behind digital content and the role of the individual acting on its behalf.
For signed PDFs, TrustAsia says potential applications include corporate reports, regulatory submissions, contracts, invoices, and audit documents.
For C2PA Content Credentials, TrustAsia says it could support greater trust and transparency across corporate communications, financial and sustainability reporting, public-sector content, brand protection, and content created or distributed with the assistance of artificial intelligence.
Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF, comments: “As AI agents take on a greater role in creating, exchanging, and acting on digital content, organizations need a consistent way to demonstrate which legal entity stands behind those interactions and what authority has been granted.
“TrustAsia’s qualification creates an opportunity to examine how verifiable organizational identity can complement signed PDFs and Content Credentials. This can help users and systems verify organizational identity and authority consistently across borders, platforms, and ecosystems.”
Edwin Zhai, CEO of TrustAsia, adds: “As a vLEI Issuer, we can now explore how these mechanisms could be complemented with verifiable information about the legal entity behind a document or piece of content and the authority of the person acting for it.
“We look forward to working with GLEIF and the relevant standards communities to assess practical applications in corporate communications, reporting, cross-border documents, and AI-assisted content.”
The firm says that as a vLEI Issuer, TrustAsia will explore how vLEIs can add verifiable organisational identity and authority to signed PDF documents and Content Credentials developed by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), which enables recipients to verify both the legal entity behind digital content and the role of the individual acting on its behalf.
For signed PDFs, TrustAsia says potential applications include corporate reports, regulatory submissions, contracts, invoices, and audit documents.
For C2PA Content Credentials, TrustAsia says it could support greater trust and transparency across corporate communications, financial and sustainability reporting, public-sector content, brand protection, and content created or distributed with the assistance of artificial intelligence.
Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF, comments: “As AI agents take on a greater role in creating, exchanging, and acting on digital content, organizations need a consistent way to demonstrate which legal entity stands behind those interactions and what authority has been granted.
“TrustAsia’s qualification creates an opportunity to examine how verifiable organizational identity can complement signed PDFs and Content Credentials. This can help users and systems verify organizational identity and authority consistently across borders, platforms, and ecosystems.”
Edwin Zhai, CEO of TrustAsia, adds: “As a vLEI Issuer, we can now explore how these mechanisms could be complemented with verifiable information about the legal entity behind a document or piece of content and the authority of the person acting for it.
“We look forward to working with GLEIF and the relevant standards communities to assess practical applications in corporate communications, reporting, cross-border documents, and AI-assisted content.”
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