A massive growth in incorporations of LLCs in Wyoming over the past five years has caused it to overtake the historic leader in incorporations, Delaware, according to a new detailed analysis of US company incorporations by OpenCorporates.
Entity verification is an essential part of RegTech solutions, especially for Know Your Business (KYB) and due diligence processes. This guide outlines a step-by-step approach for using OpenCorporates data to overcome common entity verification challenges. It’s for anyone who’s ever wondered “what problems with entity verification does OpenCorporates solve, and how does it solve them?"
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.
Yesterday, Companies House published their first strategic intelligence assessment. If I'm completely honest, I was rather blown away by it.
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).
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.
This blog post dives into US branch data — a world filled with out-of-state companies, hidden business activities, and corruption red flags. By the end of it, we hope you’ll agree that knowing where companies do business is just as important as knowing who's behind them.
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.
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.
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.