Identity & Authority: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

(https://ebrd.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 29, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
12 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
80% Reputation

Authority is well-established through robust JSON-LD schema including Organization details and sameAs links to five major social profiles. A minor technical gap exists where the homepage lacks a defined H1 tag, and ‘team of economists’ are referenced without individual Person schema in the high-level metadata, though the institutional authority is verified by the Five Bank Street headquarters data.

There is no disconnect between claims and evidence. Performance claims are specific and localized, such as the support for ‘SMEs in Bosnia and Herzegovina’ via a ‘€10 million loan.’ The bank does not just claim to be ‘green’ but proves it with specific bond investments and EV charging infrastructure projects.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "EBRD",
        "legalName": "European Bank for Reconstruction and Development",
        "url": "https://www.ebrd.com",
        "logo": "https://www.ebrd.com/content/dam/ebrd_dxp/image.png",
        "description": "Corporate headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD), an international financial institution operating across three continents.",
        "address": {
            "@type": "PostalAddress",
            "addressLocality": "London",
            "addressRegion": "United Kingdom",
            "postalCode": "E14 4BG",
            "streetAddress": "Five Bank Street"
        },
        "contactPoint": {
            "@type": "ContactPoint",
            "telephone": "0207 338 6000",
            "contactType": "London HQ"
        },
        "sameAs": [
            "https://www.facebook.com/ebrdhq",
            "https://x.com/ebrd",
            "https://www.instagram.com/ebrd_official/",
            "https://www.youtube.com/ebrdtv",
            "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ebrd/"
        ],
        "potentialAction": {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://www.ebrd.com/home/search.html?search={q}",
            "query-input": "required name=q"
        }
    },
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "Thing",
        "name": "Home",
        "description": "Homepage of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. We build stronger and greener economies across three continents.",
        "image": "https://www.ebrd.com/content/dam/ebrd_dxp/assets/images/countries/united-kingdom/bank st building flyover hero_.png",
        "url": "https://www.ebrd.com/home.html"
    }
]
/home/what-we-do.html
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "EBRD",
        "legalName": "European Bank for Reconstruction and Development",
        "url": "https://www.ebrd.com",
        "logo": "https://www.ebrd.com/content/dam/ebrd_dxp/image.png",
        "description": "Corporate headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD), an international financial institution operating across three continents.",
        "address": {
            "@type": "PostalAddress",
            "addressLocality": "London",
            "addressRegion": "United Kingdom",
            "postalCode": "E14 4BG",
            "streetAddress": "Five Bank Street"
        },
        "contactPoint": {
            "@type": "ContactPoint",
            "telephone": "0207 338 6000",
            "contactType": "London HQ"
        },
        "sameAs": [
            "https://www.facebook.com/ebrdhq",
            "https://x.com/ebrd",
            "https://www.instagram.com/ebrd_official/",
            "https://www.youtube.com/ebrdtv",
            "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ebrd/"
        ],
        "potentialAction": {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://www.ebrd.com/home/search.html?search={q}",
            "query-input": "required name=q"
        }
    },
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "Thing",
        "name": "What we do",
        "description": "How the EBRD operates, delivering change that improves lives across more than 30 economies and three continents",
        "image": "",
        "url": "https://www.ebrd.com/home/what-we-do.html"
    }
]
/home.html
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "EBRD",
        "legalName": "European Bank for Reconstruction and Development",
        "url": "https://www.ebrd.com",
        "logo": "https://www.ebrd.com/content/dam/ebrd_dxp/image.png",
        "description": "Corporate headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD), an international financial institution operating across three continents.",
        "address": {
            "@type": "PostalAddress",
            "addressLocality": "London",
            "addressRegion": "United Kingdom",
            "postalCode": "E14 4BG",
            "streetAddress": "Five Bank Street"
        },
        "contactPoint": {
            "@type": "ContactPoint",
            "telephone": "0207 338 6000",
            "contactType": "London HQ"
        },
        "sameAs": [
            "https://www.facebook.com/ebrdhq",
            "https://x.com/ebrd",
            "https://www.instagram.com/ebrd_official/",
            "https://www.youtube.com/ebrdtv",
            "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ebrd/"
        ],
        "potentialAction": {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://www.ebrd.com/home/search.html?search={q}",
            "query-input": "required name=q"
        }
    },
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "Thing",
        "name": "Home",
        "description": "Homepage of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. We build stronger and greener economies across three continents.",
        "image": "https://www.ebrd.com/content/dam/ebrd_dxp/assets/images/countries/united-kingdom/bank st building flyover hero_.png",
        "url": "https://www.ebrd.com/home.html"
    }
]
/home/news-and-events.html
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "EBRD",
        "legalName": "European Bank for Reconstruction and Development",
        "url": "https://www.ebrd.com",
        "logo": "https://www.ebrd.com/content/dam/ebrd_dxp/image.png",
        "description": "Corporate headquarters of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD), an international financial institution operating across three continents.",
        "address": {
            "@type": "PostalAddress",
            "addressLocality": "London",
            "addressRegion": "United Kingdom",
            "postalCode": "E14 4BG",
            "streetAddress": "Five Bank Street"
        },
        "contactPoint": {
            "@type": "ContactPoint",
            "telephone": "0207 338 6000",
            "contactType": "London HQ"
        },
        "sameAs": [
            "https://www.facebook.com/ebrdhq",
            "https://x.com/ebrd",
            "https://www.instagram.com/ebrd_official/",
            "https://www.youtube.com/ebrdtv",
            "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ebrd/"
        ],
        "potentialAction": {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://www.ebrd.com/home/search.html?search={q}",
            "query-input": "required name=q"
        }
    },
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "Thing",
        "name": "News and events",
        "description": "",
        "image": "",
        "url": "https://www.ebrd.com/home/news-and-events.html"
    }
]
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
16Review mentions (all pages)
4External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 4 1
/home/what-we-do.html 4 1
/home.html 4 1
/home/news-and-events.html 4 1
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