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Know-your-business data

Beside the screening lists, we hold official registers that record who companies and people are: company registers, registered persons, beneficial ownership, legal entity identifiers and a vessel register. They help confirm a customer's identity and enrich a screening result. They are kept apart from the screening collections because of their size and because a registry entry is not a risk signal.

68,501,963

Company records

From national business registers and the LEI system.

89,068,514

Registered persons

People recorded in official registers in their own right.

14,977,039

Beneficial owners

People with significant control over companies.

1,750,542

Registered vessels

From the US Coast Guard vessel register.

Approximate table counts, read live. For comparison, the whole Crown Default screening download holds — records. Details by register are on the know-your-business collection page.

How it differs from the screening data

  • Not deduplicated. A company that appears in two registers is two records, and registry records are not matched to screening records.
  • Not in the screening collections. Registry figures are never added to sanctions, PEP or debarment figures, and registry records are not returned by search or screening.
  • Loaded from each publisher's own release, on that publisher's schedule, which for most registers is far less frequent than the sanctions lists.
To be provided: the refresh schedule of each registry source.

What it is not

This is not a worldwide company database. Company registers come from twelve countries (Australia, Brazil, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States) plus the global LEI and research-organisation registers; beneficial ownership covers UK companies only. For full corporate coverage, use a commercial company-data provider alongside our data.

To be provided: whether to name commercial company-data providers here, and which.

A registry record means only that an official register recorded the company or person. It is not a screening hit.

Using the full registry data

There are no public bulk files or public API endpoints for registry data yet. Registry data is delivered under a licence, subject to each register's own terms, and registry lookups through the API are available on request.

To be provided: how licensed registry data is delivered (formats, addresses, authentication) and whether it will be offered as bulk files.

Plan for the volume: the registry tables together are many times the size of the screening data, so load them into a database rather than working with files directly.

Know-your-business collection · Beneficial ownership · Securities · Data enrichment

Last updated 2026-10-03