OpenCorporates shortlisted for Best KYC Solution in RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2022

We have exciting news! OpenCorporates has been shortlisted for the Best Know Your Customer Solution category in the RegTech Insight Awards 2022 Europe. The awards "recognise both established solution providers and innovative newcomers, seeking to herald and highlight RegTech solutions that throughout the year have successfully improved firms’ ability to effectively respond to the evolving and ever … Continue reading OpenCorporates shortlisted for Best KYC Solution in RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2022 →

Highlights: Why transparent company data should be on your product roadmap

Company data enables product managers to build tools that help their users solve a range of challenges: from risk management to trend analysis. But the company data landscape has held product managers back until recently, as accessing global data in the way it’s needed can be far from straightforward — and the data you could … Continue reading Highlights: Why transparent company data should be on your product roadmap →

Third-party risk management: why transparent company data creates defensibility

Companies face more significant third-party risk management obligations than ever before. A vital component of a third-party risk management programme is to understand who the suppliers, agents and other companies in their third-party ecosystem are at legal entity level – often across thousands of companies and multiple supply chain tiers. Legal entity data you can … Continue reading Third-party risk management: why transparent company data creates defensibility →

10 reasons why KYC professionals rely on OpenCorporates

Millions of OpenCorporates company datapoints are utilised every month – either for free via our open website or at scale via our paid-for API and Bulk Data subscriptions. Many of those using the data are professionals working in: Know Your Customer (KYC), third party risk management, business onboarding or similar compliance related roles. Their challenge … Continue reading 10 reasons why KYC professionals rely on OpenCorporates →

Case study: OpenCorporates’ data helps Encompass automate Know Your Customer due diligence

“OpenCorporates' company data, when combined with on demand registry, regulator and exchange information from Encompass, helps our customers understand the full picture about a customer or other third party – fast. This means they can make more informed decisions as part of their Know Your Customer or anti-money laundering activities”. Alan SamuelsHead of ProductEncompass Challenge … Continue reading Case study: OpenCorporates’ data helps Encompass automate Know Your Customer due diligence →

Connecting the dots with network analytics? Why your next investigation needs White Box data

Between 715 billion and 1.87 trillion Euros is laundered around the world each year, according to estimates from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. That’s the equivalent of between 2 and 5 percent of global GDP. A key challenge in uncovering illicit financial flows is the incomplete picture analysts have, caused by poor … Continue reading Connecting the dots with network analytics? Why your next investigation needs White Box data →

[Webinar] Fighting Financial Crime: The White Box Company Data Revolution

On-Demand Webinar Watch webinar recording > Black Box company data is holding back the fight against financial crime. In a world where technology, transparency and inter-connected datasets are increasingly essential to uncover illicit activity involving companies – Black Box data is no longer fit for purpose. That’s why the White Box data revolution is underway: … Continue reading [Webinar] Fighting Financial Crime: The White Box Company Data Revolution →

How White Box data helps RegTechs automate the verification step of due diligence

The £37.8 million fine recently imposed on Commerzbank by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is just the latest in a long string of actions by regulators enforcing increasingly stringent anti-money laundering (AML) regulations around the world. In response, there has been a boom in the regulatory technology (RegTech) sector – accelerating the building of tech … Continue reading How White Box data helps RegTechs automate the verification step of due diligence →