This file provides a description of the Group’s Legal Entity structure, using a parent/child relationship.
This Legal Entity Parent Child file type is identified using the pattern: **/LegalEntityParentChild*.csv (as specified by legal-entity.parent-child.file-pattern).
This file is loaded using the LegalEntityParentChild topic. See the Topic Aliases table for an understanding of the topic aliases associated with each topic.
Flattened Hierarchy
After this file is loaded into the datastore, a datastore listener will trigger some further processing that will flatten the hierarchy.
The tree is walked and each node is assigned a level in the LegalEntityHierarchy hierarchy.
The leaf nodes of the tree become the legal entities in the LegalEntity hierarchy, and each trade is mapped to a legal entity.
Field
Key
Null
FieldType
Description
Example
Name
Y
N
String
Name of the Legal Entity.
Parent
N
Y
String
Name of the parent Legal Entity (or null if there is no parent).