June 2025 – OpenCorporates

Why Japan’s tech-forward economy still struggles with FinTech onboarding

In this post, we're exploring how regulatory fragmentation in one of the world's most advanced economies creates a compliance bottleneck for global fintech platforms. We'll break down the specific challenges of Japanese business verification, compare your main options for getting reliable data, and reveal how the country's ownership secrecy creates fundamental blind spots in risk assessment.

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June 26, 2025

Case study: Red Oak’s automated approach to detecting Outside Business Activities (OBAs)

At Red Oak, we leverage OpenCorporates to help our clients identify Outside Business Activities (OBAs) by providing access to the world’s largest open database of company information. This integration enables compliance teams to proactively uncover OBAs that may not have been properly disclosed by registered representatives or associated persons. By cross-referencing employee disclosures with OpenCorporates data, firms can detect potential gaps or discrepancies that may otherwise go unnoticed.

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June 19, 2025

Data Aggregators / Entity Resolution

Data duplicates are costing you millions: Entity resolution for data aggregators

Your risk team thinks you’re dealing with Acme Corp, finance books it in as ACME CO, and marketing targets Acme Corporation in New York. Three “different” customers that are, in fact, the same legal entity. Multiply that by thousands of records, and duplicate data quietly drains budgets, derails onboarding, and invites regulatory fines every single day. One missed connection can green-light a sanctioned counter-party or sink a multi-million-dollar deal. The race to nail down a golden record for every business has never been more urgent.

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June 17, 2025

Fraud Investigations / Professional Services

How bulk registry data uncovers corporate fraud

Corporate fraud has always hidden behind paperwork. Until recently that paperwork (articles of incorporation, officer lists, change-of-address forms) sat in 50 state silos, traditionally as PDFs and TIFF scans, which are essentially digital images of paper documents. OpenCorporates’ now sources, cleans, and normalises that data into machine-readable tables, refreshing most jurisdictions weekly or even daily.

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June 13, 2025