Category: Data

Microsoft and OpenCorporates partner to enable global business transparency

We’re excited to announce a partnership with Microsoft ACTS (Advanced Cloud Transparency Services) Microsoft’s ACTS initiative helps governments mobilize data to accelerate and enhance transparency. Since launching in 2020, they’ve been working through partners to show governments how new innovations in digital technology—like real-time analytics, AI, and machine learning—can help promote democracy and increase citizen … Continue reading Microsoft and OpenCorporates partner to enable global business transparency →

Press Release: GLEIF and OpenCorporates expand Partnership to increase legal-entity transparency in global markets

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 →

UNSD & OECD use OpenCorporates’ data to help the world understand multinational enterprises

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 →

[Infographic] Company Universe Uncovered: 2022

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 →

Press release: OpenCorporates unifies official company data from all 50 US States

Transparent company data from all 50 US States now available to all in one place OpenCorporates, the world’s definitive source for company data, has made transparent company data from all 50 US States plus the District of Columbia available to all. Information on nearly 100 million companies registered in the US, and over 190 million … Continue reading Press release: OpenCorporates unifies official company data from all 50 US States →

Israel: More company data now available on OpenCorporates

Good news: we’ve almost doubled the number of Israeli companies available to you in the OpenCorporates database. Foundational information about more than 686,000 Israeli companies is now accessible on our website, API and as Bulk Data, stretching back into the historic data the country’s official company register holds – the Israeli Corporations Authority at the … Continue reading Israel: More company data now available on OpenCorporates →

New Jurisdiction: Illinois (2,800,000 companies)

A win for open data advocacy: official company data from Illinois is now available in OpenCorporates. The addition of over 2.8 million Illinois companies, including those incorporated in the third largest US city, Chicago, means that OpenCorporates now contains company information for all 50 US States (plus the District of Columbia) – exclusively collected from … Continue reading New Jurisdiction: Illinois (2,800,000 companies) →

Functional opacity in company data: What it is & why it matters

What does true transparency mean in today's complex, connected and data-driven world?  To us, it means the ability to: Access the resource you needFind the records you needUnderstand the recordsCompare the records to each otherJoin the records to other records – to make sense of them This is true transparency, and it's the transparency that … Continue reading Functional opacity in company data: What it is & why it matters →

New Jurisdiction: British Columbia (2,400,000 companies)

Exciting news! We’ve added companies from the Canadian province of British Columbia to the OpenCorporates database.  At time of writing, this adds more than 2.4 million companies and takes us to a total coverage of 209 million companies across 141 jurisdictions. And not a moment too soon, as the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering … Continue reading New Jurisdiction: British Columbia (2,400,000 companies) →

This must be the wakeup call for true corporate transparency

The Bell Tower of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, taken on my visit to the city in August 2017, on a trip to help with the creation of a Beneficial Ownership Register for Ukrainian Companies The world has watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine in horror over the past few weeks. In this blog post, OpenCorporates’ … Continue reading This must be the wakeup call for true corporate transparency →