Community – OpenCorporates

OpenCorporates brings world’s largest open company database to Money20/20 USA

OpenCorporates, the world’s largest open database of legal entity data, will make its debut at Money20/20 USA (Oct 26–29, 2025, Las Vegas). The company will showcase how standardised, transparent, official legal entity data empowers fintechs, RegTechs, and financial institutions to meet regulatory demands, enhance KYC/KYB, and combat financial crime. Visit OpenCorporates at Booth #19703 for live demos and exclusive insights.

0 Comments

October 17, 2025

OpenCorporates revives French company data

We’re excited to announce the revival of our French company data, including coverage of French territories! This marks a crucial step forward, considering the significance of French legal entities within the EU and the jurisdiction’s substantial size.

0 Comments

November 15, 2024

Community / Data / Impact / Policy

UK Companies House Strategic Intelligence Assessment: A wake-up call for company registers everywhere

Yesterday, Companies House published their first strategic intelligence assessment. If I'm completely honest, I was rather blown away by it.

0 Comments

October 25, 2024

Community / Data / Impact / Policy

Company registers: Why penalties do and don’t matter

Last week, the Business Registry Insights group published a fascinating report on penalties issued by legal entity registers around the world. This is, admittedly, a bit wonkish, but at OpenCorporates we are proud to be wonkish about legal entity register data (in fact, a working definition of wonkish could be - unsexy details that matter relating to an unsexy but important subject).

0 Comments

October 23, 2024

Commercial / Community / Data / Impact

Shell corporations: Paper companies with real consequences

You know that game where a ball is placed under one of three cups and they get shuffled around until you lose track of where the ball is? Well, imagine that ball is actually billions of dollars, and instead of cups, it’s companies. Companies that don’t actually do anything. Companies that only exist on paper. Welcome to the world of shell corporations.

3 Comments

October 10, 2024

Community / Data / Impact

Profiting from panic: Those who took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic was a global crisis on a level most of us had never experienced before. While there are plenty of stories about how it brought out the best in some of us, it also exposed the worst in others.

0 Comments

September 16, 2024

Community / Data / Impact

How OpenCorporates helped nurture the open company data ecosystem

OpenCorporates was founded over 12 years ago, and since then has become the default source for trusted legal entity data. It has also directly and indirectly inspired countless companies and projects in the open company data space. This document highlights some of these, and our relationship with them.

1 Comment

September 6, 2024

Commercial / Community / Impact

OpenCorporates on the FinCrimeTech50: Why this list matters

If you haven’t heard of them, the FinCrimeTech50 are the world’s leading tech companies fighting money laundering, fraud and financial crime. Created by FinTech Global, a leading provider in the FinTech world, it is a list of 50 companies that are doing groundbreaking work in the area of financial crime prevention. The “who’s who” of tech innovators that every financial institution should know about.

1 Comment

August 20, 2024

Community / Data / legal / Resources

Can I use OpenCorporates? Here’s everything you need to know

You’ve just stumbled upon OpenCorporates, a vast repository of corporate data, and you’re wondering, “Can I really use this?” This guide will walk you through the amazing features of our web portal, the importance of our data protection rules, and how you can be part of a global transparency movement.

1 Comment

June 11, 2024

Community / Data / Impact

Did rapid FinTech growth fuel PPP loan fraud?

This article is about a pressing issue that unfolded during the COVID-19 pandemic - the distribution of the massive $793 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds, and how this seemingly beneficial program might have been exploited, particularly by FinTech lenders.

0 Comments

May 1, 2024