Meeting minutes status: Draft (pending approval)

Date/Time

19th March 2019, 11:00 AM EST

Attendees

Time	Item	Who	Notes from the Meeting
5 min	Convene & roll call	Sailesh (Nomura)
10 min	LEI Coverage in the Bloomberg and Reuters Issuer feed	All	Of 5m entities included in a specific Bloomberg file about 1.35 million have an LEI code (it's necessary to exclude some entires that aren't relevant, e.g. have not issued securities, are no longer active) Highest coverage is in Europe, as expected Reuters has an issuer flag and about 1/3 of those flagged have an LEI code
20 min	Next Steps on the Issuer Linking - Approach to use LEI Codes Open symbology - Open Corporates	All	LEI lists a number of sites that can generate LEI codes. Sailesh will reach out to gmeiutility.org to understand the process for adding entities. Agreed LEI seems a better approach than Open Corporates at this stage
5 min	AOB & adjourn		Regarding the discussion on agency bonds, Sailesh proposed waiting to progress until there was significant interest from the group. Information on the current thoughts can be found in the roadmap and Sailesh will share a brief summary that can be used to solicit interest.