An office of the US Department of the Treasury

http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/wsr/ofr/Pages/default.aspx

The Office of Financial Research (OFR) is an agency established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act within the US Department of the Treasury to improve the quality of financial data available to policymakers and facilitate more robust and sophisticated analysis of the financial system.

The Office of Financial Research is the lead agency driving the US approach to adding Legal Entity Identifiers to all parties to financial contracts.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Financial_Research