The pace, complexity, scope and automation of the corporate world is increasing fast, and is exposing a growing gap in today’s company data between what is provided and what is required. OpenCorporates’ Legal-Entity Data Principles aim to redress this. Legal entities are the atomic elements behind the entire business world – and increasingly every other … Continue reading A matter of trust: legal-entity data needs principles
OpenCorporates and Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) are delighted to announce that they will be working together to support ATII's goal of disrupting the operations, economics and anonymity of human trafficking. In the fight against human trafficking, knowledge is power. To combat this heinous crime effectively, it is crucial to understand its operations, economics, and … Continue reading Unveiling the Power of OpenCorporates: Disrupting Human Trafficking with Data
LEI-mapping capability enhanced as LEI Data links to corresponding records in OpenCorporates databaset The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has announced that LEIs have been linked with corresponding records in OpenCorporates’ global database of legal-entity data, thanks to an expansion of a long-standing partnership between the two organizations. OpenCorporates is the largest open database … Continue reading Press Release: GLEIF and OpenCorporates expand Partnership to increase legal-entity transparency in global markets
A new joint initiative by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is helping to improve the information available on the world’s 500 largest multinational enterprises (MNEs). These major companies shape economies and societies, but the information they disclose varies according to where they are head-quartered. The … Continue reading UNSD & OECD use OpenCorporates’ data to help the world understand multinational enterprises
Between a global pandemic, war in Europe and sustained economic instability – the last three years have felt like a perma-crisis. Being OpenCorporates however, we asked ourselves: how has the global company universe changed in this time? That’s why, near the end of last year, we analysed the company incorporation data we hold since the … Continue reading [Infographic] Company Universe Uncovered: 2022
Thursday 23 February 2023 3pm UK | 10am New York Watch the webinar now > Analysing the typologies of interconnected companies can reveal greater insights about your third parties than traditional risk management approaches. But how do you get the full picture? And how do you pick shell companies or high-risk agents and Trust and … Continue reading [Webinar] Uncovering risk hidden in plain sight: The power of knowledge graphs applied to corporate structures
“OpenCorporates’ global company data enables us to resolve entities and piece together complex corporate networks in our knowledge graph – so our customers can uncover risks that wouldn’t otherwise be visible”. Alex BraidGlobal Head of Credit Risk SolutionsQuantexa Challenge Managing third party, credit, fraud and other risks is made difficult by the complexity of corporate … Continue reading Case study: Quantexa uncovers risk hidden in corporate networks using OpenCorporates data
“Integrating the OpenCorporates API into Sonovate enables our customers to receive real-time invoice finance credit decisions and saves our risk team many hours when onboarding new customers”. Bob StrudwickCTOSonovate Challenge Sonovate is on a mission to reshape the future of work through its embedded payments and invoice factoring solutions. Focusing on recruitment agencies, consultancies and … Continue reading Case study: Sonovate accelerates customer onboarding & credit decisions with OpenCorporates data
Workflow automation, data analytics and AI increasingly power all kinds of vital business tools. But these technologies can only scale and power critical business processes if the data fuelling them is reliable and fit-for-purpose. That’s why hundreds of enterprises rely on the OpenCorporates API every day, to enhance their solutions with programmatic access to transparent … Continue reading 5 ways to use the OpenCorporates API to power your critical business processes
Government agencies increasingly use data and technology to help tackle financial crime, protect the integrity of financial markets and promote a healthy business environment more widely. A high quality and transparent dataset of all companies that exist in their jurisdiction or the wider world – like the data provided by OpenCorporates – is uniquely useful … Continue reading Government agencies: 3 ways transparent company data helps
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