Urgent – Researchers wanted!
Do you have a journalist or investigator mindset? Do you have a spare 5 to 6 weeks to work with us either full or part time? If so, we would…
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September 11, 2019
A brief history of shell companies: must read for company data wonks
Here at OpenCorporates, we really care about official company data – and getting this data right means we need to know a lot about the nature of legal entities, what…
July 15, 2019
At last: corporate events for everyone
We're proud to announce that we have now released the first public release of OpenCorporates’ new corporate events system. This has been a really substantial project that's been more complex…
June 30, 2019
OpenCorporates Offers Universal Access to Data on More Than 168 Million Corporate Legal Entities, Increasing Transparency and Trust
As global corporate organisations grow ever more complex and automation increasingly influences how business relationships evolve, the need for universally accessible non-proprietary data on corporate legal entities becomes more acute.
May 22, 2019
Strata keynote: The irresistible rise of White Box Data
To coincide with our launch of OpenCorporates' new White Paper, The White Box Revolution – on how Black Box Data is being replaced with transparent, well-defined data with open IDs…
May 9, 2019
Black Box Data addiction will kill your business, warns new report
For the past 50 years, companies, regulators, investigators and journalists have mostly used ‘Black Box’ data - data that is opaque, not well defined, uses proprietary identifiers, and has poor data quality feedback loops. But continued reliance on this data could put a firm out of business within five years, according to a new report by OpenCorporates.
May 2, 2019
Updated Policy Paper: How OpenCorporates should handle company number problems (v1.2)
In January, we blogged that we're now publishing an internal policy paper – How OpenCorporates Should Handle Company Number Problems – under a Creative Commons Licence. We’ve since identified a few new cases which should be covered by our policy, so we’ve published a new version of this paper...
April 18, 2019
Wanted: great (white hat) scraper/bot writers to help save the world
OpenCorporates is growing, and looking for more great bot and scraper coders – to help fulfil its mission to open up the world's official public information on companies.
March 19, 2019
Why (open) legal entity data matters
Following on from the recent partnership announcement with LexisNexis, OpenCorporates Co-founder and CEO, Chris Taggart, explains how legal entity data can fuel big data initiatives that provide business insights, support transparency, and benefit society as a whole.
March 1, 2019
Discover German Company Data at Open Data Day 2019 – Berlin Edition
Interested in German company data? You need to come to the Open Data Day this Saturday, March 2, in Berlin...
February 26, 2019