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…
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…
Multinational enterprises have a major impact on our economies and societies – so we all need to understand where they are, how they operate and where they pay taxes. That’s…
By Sarah Arana-Morton, Chief Executive Officer, OpenCorporates Company data is essential. It lets people and companies understand who they are buying from, who they are working for, who they are…
Is the era of proprietary identifiers coming to an end? From April 2022, the US General Services Administration plans to stop using the DUNS number to uniquely identify companies registered…
Data about companies is used every day to inform all kinds of critical decisions: from analysing risk to vetting potential suppliers. But how do you know what data to trust?…
Over the past month (18 February - 18 March) despite the challenging environment we are in, in the UK alone there were almost: 60,000 company incorporations 125,000 officers added to newly…
The EU’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) came into force last week, on 10 January 2020. It was partly a response to the Panama Papers, a leak of thousands of…
Yesterday we had a minor celebration in the OpenCorporates office. For days the data team have had one eye on our company counter, as it approached the 180 million mark,…
What is your role at OpenCorporates? I run the data team at OpenCorporates and so I am responsible for all of our data. This encompasses the sourcing of information from…