Use cases >> Government
Detect fraud, streamline investigations and improve regulatory oversight
Societies depend on their governments to tackle financial crime, protect the integrity of markets and promote a healthy business environment.
It can feel like an arms race with perpetrators of crime exploiting opaque, complex cross-border corporate structures or shell companies.
Only by having a complete view of the company universe can you join the dots.
Build your operational backbone
Efficient, effective investigations, event monitoring and market analysis starts with accurate, dependable and trustworthy legal-entity data.
Now you can search the world’s largest open legal-entity database or plug the data direct into your applications and processes.
Fresh, standardised, fully auditable information, underpinned by our Legal-Entity Data Principles, this is data you can trust.
It shouldn't be hard to get legal-entity data you can trust
And yet it is. Legal-entity information is dispersed across hundreds of business registers that are hard to navigate and impossible to access at scale. Traditional company-data aggregators are no longer the answer either, given their opaque processes and provenance.
Verifiable accuracy is more important than ever, and you should expect more.
You need data built on deep expertise, rigorous data models and well-founded, forward-looking principles. Data sourced direct from primary sources, curated with clear decision-making and no hidden bias, and defined by open not proprietary identifiers and standards. Data you know you can trust.
OpenCorporates was born out of the same frustrations you experience every day
In a world where verifiable accuracy is more important than ever, traditional business-data providers no longer meet the grade.
You should expect more: data built on deep expertise, rigorous data models and well-founded, forward-looking principles — ones that, among things, only use primary sources; replace hidden bias with clear decison-making; use open, not proprietary standards; and base trust on provenance not legacy brand names.
In other words, legal-entity data you can trust.
Over 5 million
searches made every month
Trusted
Government agencies in USA, Europe and UK use OpenCorporates
Standard in data trust
Our Data Principles set the industry standard for legal-entity data
We provide the foundational data you build on
Entity verification
Put your customer and supplier onboarding on a firm foundation
Investigations
Join the dots to uncover crime, corruption, financial, legal or regulatory or ESG risk
Data management
Create a foundational spine to for your master-data management, entity resolution and data cleansing
Third-party risk management
Keep abreast of changes in your trading partners that could spell trouble
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Case studies and articles
Miami Herald and ACDC
Covid relief funds: How OpenCorporates’ data helped expose exploitation of the US Paycheck Protection Program
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UK Financial Conduct Authority
OpenCorporates collaborates with the Financial Conduct Authority on Covid-related fraud prevention
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US Department of Treasury
OpenCorporates collaborates with the Financial Conduct Authority on Covid-related fraud prevention
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