Identification as infrastructure: the challenges of establishing the Legal Entity Identifier data standard for financial markets

[First paragraph] This paper seeks to explore the central concern of the sub-theme to explore the notion of infrastructure as resource and tool in order to rethink organizations and processes of organizing. It does this through the presentation of a research-in-progress study of an initiative to establish a de facto as well as de jure identification infrastructure for financial markets around the development and adoption of a common global digital identifier for market participants to be used in the conclusion and reporting of financial transactions.