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The tequila heist that exposed supply chain fraud – and the fake companies behind it

The Santo Tequila case is a classic example of double brokering - when one freight company passes a shipment to another, and then another. At some point in the chain, a non-existent “carrier” steps in. These so-called phantom carriers look credible: they have names like Acme Logistics LLC, registered phone numbers, even government-issued identification numbers. But behind them, there’s often no legal entity, no employees, and sometimes not even a real address. They win contracts, move goods - and then disappear.

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October 14, 2025

Compliance / Risk Management

Making sense of risk with legal-entity knowledge graphs

Companies, banks, and regulators can no longer rely on a single dataset or a single rulebook. They need to bring multiple pieces of information together to understand risk and make informed decisions. This is where legal-entity knowledge graphs (LE-KGs) come in. They act as the “map” of companies and their connections, showing ownership, control, and risk.

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October 1, 2025

Data Access / Data Aggregators

What you need to know before sourcing data directly from US state registries

Collecting, cleaning, and maintaining company data directly from 50 separate US state registries (plus DC and territories) is possible - but only with significant, ongoing expense in money, time, and specialist effort. Variation across states in data availability, formats, fee models, and cadence - paired with legal/licensing friction - turns “do‑it‑yourself” into a long, laborious program rather than a one‑off project.

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September 15, 2025

FinTech / KYB

Scaling KYB across borders: Practical lessons from automating business verification

When onboarding moves beyond one market, the first thing to break isn’t your policy, it’s the process around it. This post shares what we’ve learned helping risk & compliance teams verify businesses globally, with practical steps you can drop straight into your roadmap. The result is fewer manual reviews, faster time‑to‑decision, and an audit trail you actually trust.

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August 18, 2025

Entity Verification / Real Estate

Why unmasking corporate property ownership is the next frontier for commercial real estate data

Portfolio owners, lenders, and prop-tech platforms are all grappling with the same fundamental problem: how do you make smart investment and lending decisions when you can't see who really owns what?

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August 1, 2025

Compliance / Healthcare

How to avoid the $10K-a-day mistake costing healthcare PBMs millions

Across healthcare, PBMs are being buried in compliance demands. As an executive we spoke to recently put it, "compliance is no longer just difficult, it's downright unmanageable." In this post, you’ll discover why traditional compliance methods are failing, how costly these mistakes really are, and exactly how forward-thinking PBMs are leveraging unified corporate data to fix this liability.

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July 17, 2025

Case studies / Entity Verification / Supply Chain Risk

Case study: How Tradeverifyd automatically identifies and analyzes supply chain risks

Supply chains are more complex than ever. Global systems are susceptible to disruption due to environmental, geopolitical, financial and other events outside of the control of Enterprise Leaders. Tradeverifyd allows those same leaders and managers to see deep into their supply chains - well past their Tier 1 suppliers - to proactively manage their supply networks before disruptions occur.

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July 11, 2025

FinTech / Onboarding

Why Japan’s tech-forward economy still struggles with FinTech onboarding

In this post, we're exploring how regulatory fragmentation in one of the world's most advanced economies creates a compliance bottleneck for global fintech platforms. We'll break down the specific challenges of Japanese business verification, compare your main options for getting reliable data, and reveal how the country's ownership secrecy creates fundamental blind spots in risk assessment.

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June 26, 2025

Case studies / Compliance / Risk Management

Case study: Red Oak’s automated approach to detecting Outside Business Activities (OBAs)

At Red Oak, we leverage OpenCorporates to help our clients identify Outside Business Activities (OBAs) by providing access to the world’s largest open database of company information. This integration enables compliance teams to proactively uncover OBAs that may not have been properly disclosed by registered representatives or associated persons. By cross-referencing employee disclosures with OpenCorporates data, firms can detect potential gaps or discrepancies that may otherwise go unnoticed.

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June 19, 2025

Data Aggregators / Entity Resolution

Data duplicates are costing you millions: Entity resolution for data aggregators

Your risk team thinks you’re dealing with Acme Corp, finance books it in as ACME CO, and marketing targets Acme Corporation in New York. Three “different” customers that are, in fact, the same legal entity. Multiply that by thousands of records, and duplicate data quietly drains budgets, derails onboarding, and invites regulatory fines every single day. One missed connection can green-light a sanctioned counter-party or sink a multi-million-dollar deal. The race to nail down a golden record for every business has never been more urgent.

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June 17, 2025