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Alexandre Kech
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Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age
Open Standards for Trust: How Interoperability Drives Adoption in Digital Finance
In this episode of Trust Talks, host Alexandre Kech (CEO, GLEIF) speaks with Pelle Brændgaard (Co-Founder & CEO, Notabene) about why open standards consistently outperform closed networks when scale, adoption, and trust matter most. They explore how organizational identifiers such as the LEI and vLEI can enable faster, more reliable counterparty verification and help shift compliance from reactive checks to pre-transaction decision-making under frameworks such as FATF Recommendation 16 (the Travel Rule).The conversation also covers how open messaging and verification layers can reduce friction in cross-border and digital-asset payments, and how products like Notabene Flow ai...
2026-02-12
45 min
Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age
Powering Cross-Border Trust and Interoperability in the Greater Bay Area with the vLEI
In this episode of the Trust Talks podcast, GLEIF’s CEO, Alexandre Kech, sits with Eva Chan, CEO of Certizen Technology and Chair at the Asia PKI Consortium, to discuss ongoing projects focused on promoting cross-border trust and interoperability in Asia. Following its qualification as a Qualified vLEI Issuer (QVI) in 2025, Certizen Technology is exploring innovative vLEI use cases in the Greater Bay Area (GBA). This unique region, which encompasses three jurisdictions with distinct currencies and legal frameworks, provides the ideal setting to explore the vLEI’s potential as a key enabler of cross-border digital trust across indus...
2026-01-08
14 min
The Payments Trilogue
TPT #33 LEI
In this episode, we discuss the critical role of identity in payments, focusing on the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and its verifiable version (vLEI). Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF, explains how LEIs serve as a passport for organizations, facilitating cross-border payments and trade. The conversation covers the challenges of LEI adoption, the importance of organizational identity, and the need for awareness and accessibility. The panel also explores the fragmentation of identity solutions, the role of LEI in payment systems, and future plans for enhancing its use in digital commerce.
2025-12-09
39 min
The Connector.
The Connector Podcast - From LEI To vLEI: How Companies Prove Who They Are Across Borders
What if your systems could instantly verify not just a company’s identity, but that a specific person or agent is truly authorized to act for it? We sit down with Alexandre Kech, CEO at GLEIF, to unpack how the Legal Entity Identifier became the world’s backbone for business identity and how the new Verifiable LEI brings authority, delegation, and digital trust into the open—across web, apps, and cross‑border workflows.We trace the journey from post‑2008 regulatory gaps to a global, regulator‑overseen public good that maps who is who and who owns whom. Alex explain...
2025-11-10
15 min
Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age
Bridging Global Payments: FATF 16, BIC, and LEI – A Unified Vision for Transparency
Cross-border payments are entering a new era, shaped by real-time rails, digital assets, and the global shift to ISO 20022. At the same time, compliance standards such as FATF Recommendation 16 are raising expectations for transparency and trust across payment networks.In this episode of Trust Talks, Shriyanka Hore, Global Head of Industry Engagement and Managing Director at Swift Corporate Office, joins Alexandre Kech to unpack how the BIC and LEI work together to balance compliance with innovation. The conversation explores why FATF 16 is so critical for transparency, how global identifiers can strengthen identity and routing integrity, and what...
2025-09-25
31 min
Where Finance Finds Its Future
GLEIF takes on the blockchain interoperability conundrum
A Future of Finance interview with Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF.There are two main obstacles to the scaling of the markets in digital assets and one of them is the lack of interoperability between blockchain networks and between blockchain networks and traditional financial markets. The default answer, hallowed by history in multiple industries, is standards. By enabling different networks to exchange data, they multiply the overall volume of counterparties and transactions. Unfortunately, attempts to achieve interoperability standards in digital assets suffer from limited usage and winner-takes-all proprietorial schemes, condemning most market participants to deploy risky...
2025-09-01
38 min
Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age
Digital Assets Meet Digital Identity: How Chainlink and Organizational IDs Build Trust and Automate Compliance
In this episode of Trust Talks, Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF, sits down with Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink, to discuss how decentralized infrastructure and verifiable organizational identities are reshaping digital trust. The conversation examines how integrating the vLEI with Chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine and CCIP facilitates tamper-proof cross-border transactions, streamlines compliance, and mitigates the risk of fraud.They cover the real-world impact of bringing organizational identity onchain, the importance of blockchain interoperability, and what the GLEIF–Chainlink partnership unlocks for the digital asset industry. This is a must-listen for anyone working to modernize compliance, improve onbo...
2025-06-30
38 min
Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age
From Paper to Protocol: Enabling Cross-Border Digital Trust with the vLEI and UNCITRAL’s MLIT
As global commerce accelerates, the need for trusted, cross-border digital identity systems has never been more urgent. In this episode, Alexandre Kech sits down with Luca Castellani, Legal Officer at UNCITRAL, to unpack the groundbreaking potential of the Model Law on the Use and Cross-Border Recognition of Identity Management and Trust Services (MLIT).Together, they explore how MLIT, when paired with the verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI), creates a new baseline for legal certainty, technical interoperability, and trust in digital transactions.Tune in to discover how governments, regulators, and businesses can move beyond paper-based processes...
2025-06-12
42 min
The ID Talk Podcast
How GLEIF Is Giving Companies a Digital ID of Their Own
In this episode of ID Talk, Alex Perala sits down with Alexandre Kech, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), to explore how GLEIF is bringing digital identity to the enterprise itself. They discuss the origins of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), its global adoption, and the foundation’s latest innovation – the Verifiable LEI (VLEI) – designed to give companies and their authorized representatives cryptographically verifiable credentials. From financial markets to Web3 to AI agents, this conversation dives into the future of organizational identity and digital trust.
2025-04-14
34 min
The Regulation Asia Podcast
Digital Revolution: The Role of the LEI in Fostering Trust and Transparency
In this episode, Alexandre Kech, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), discusses his vision for the organisation and its strategic priorities, including the impact of the digital revolution on trust and transparency in financial markets. Kech talks about how the LEI and its digital counterpart (vLEI) can help facilitate trade and cross-border payments, and reduce the risks associated with fraud and sanctions.
2025-04-10
27 min
IBS Intelligence Podcasts
EP847: The Legal Entity Identifier – a cost-effective way of proving corporate identity
Alexandre Kech, CEO, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)Established in the wake of the global financial crisis, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) promotes the implementation and use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). GLEIF is a supra-national not-for-profit organisation headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Originally aimed at the derivatives market, the use cases for the LEI have mushroomed, as Alexandre Kech, Chief Executive Officer of GLEIF explains to Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence.
2025-04-01
13 min
Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age
Welcome to Trust Talks
Step into Trust Talks – the podcast where we explore the future of trusted organizational identities and the digital transformation that underpins them. GLEIF CEO Alexandre Kech invites you to discover how embedding trust into business relationships can streamline global trade and fuel economic growth. Each episode features candid conversations with industry experts, regulators, and forward-thinking innovators. Whether navigating the complexities of modern business or simply interested in the evolving world of digital identity, Trust Talks offers the insights you need to stay ahead.
2025-02-19
00 min
RULEMATCH Spot On
RULEMATCH Spot On - Winter Edition 2025 (Alexandre Kech - GLEIF)
RULEMATCH Spot On - Winter Edition 2025: During the World Economic Forum in Davos, host Ian Simpson spoke to Alexandre Kech, CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). They discussed the evolving crypto and digital asset market, the need for universal identity to enable mass adoption of tokenized assets and the collaboration needed between public and private organizations to enable interoperability between blockchains and on-chain assets.
2025-02-05
08 min
CRYPTO BEADLES
Onchain Custodian Crypto Custody Solutions Blockchain
Meet CEO of Onchain Custodian Alexandre Kech, hear how he, Da Hongfei of NEO and team plan to bring robust crypto custodial solutions to the industry. 💪RELAX Peeps, these are just my opinions and anything contained within the video is for information or entertainment purposes only. Robert Beadles is the co-founder of Monarch Token. This is for educational purposes and not financial advice. Watch at your own risk and always seek professional financial and legal advice before investing in anything. 🛑 THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION, ACTUAL FACTS AND OPINIONS MAY VARY. INVEST AND LISTEN AT YOUR O...
2019-11-27
22 min
HashTalk by Rising Capital
Ep. #8: Alexandre Kech, CEO of Onchain Custodian - The Absolute Safe For Digital Asset Custody
Hi, I’m Sankalp Shangari. I’m exploring latest trends & my learnings and experiences in Startup & VC world and how upcoming technologies are reshaping the world as we know it, especially Blockchain & AI. HashTalk also interviews startup experts and influencers to know about them, their projects, and and their processes.Whether you are an enthusiast or a professional - this is the podcast for you!DISCLAIMER: This is a personal online resource. Any views or opinions represented in this resource are personal and belong solely to the resource owner and do not represent those of peop...
2019-09-17
45 min