The LEI would provide a unique identification tag for every financial services entity and perhaps extend to the financial instruments they issue.

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So any of our clients, if they are sending to a local pharmacy, or to a specialist or laboratory, they can "friend" that laboratory or specialist or pharmacy onto athenaNet, and without getting onto any of our other services, that entity can start paying for and receiving online clinical information from our cloud-based service without having to be on it.

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Nonetheless, CoinLab took the step last week of registering with FinCEN to become a Money Services Business (MSB) and their entity and registration number are available here.

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Now, the PPACA does nothing to encourage a hospital, doctor, drug company, taxing entity, or nursing home to charge less for their services.

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Miguel and Linda Delgado created a fake entity to hide staff at their San Antonio, Tex. janitorial outfit, Border Maintenance Services, thereby reducing workers' comp premiums, says a suit filed by its insurer, Texas Mutual.

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