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Business Entity Data

Business entity data has become increasingly important due to a heightened focus on regulatory compliance and risk management in the financial industry, particularly during times of market volatility. However, challenges to sourcing the data include disparate sources, a lack of standards and manual collection of the data in individual business silos. Indeed, in many organizations, entity data and securities data are often maintained separately which can necessitate a costly and time-consuming manual mapping process to identify global exposure to various entities, industries and regions.

Interactive Data offers a Business Entity service designed to help customers meet their requirements for risk management and compliance under a variety of directives such as UCITS III, the EU Third Money Laundering Directive, the Capital Requirements Directive (Basel II), MiFID, and the USA PATRIOT Act.

The Business Entity Service combines specialist counterparty reference data with its own security-level reference data for U.S. and international equities and bonds, including corporate, government and agency securities to provide customers with business entity information. It establishes relationships between issues, issuers and parent entities and maps them directly to a customer’s file of securities on a daily basis.

The Business Entity Service can help clients obtain a more complete picture of the corporate hierarchy of an entity in order to understand its capital structure and global exposure, as well as perform pre- and post-trade technical analysis.

Data Coverage

Business entity data fields are available in conjunction with Interactive Data's pricing and reference data content.

  • Entity Identifier
  • Registered Name
  • Full Address Information
  • Phone Number
  • Web site
  • Parent Entity Identifier
  • Ultimate Parent Entity Indentifier


Interactive Data's Business Entity service, which is available via the Securities Information Retrieval Service (SIRS), RemotePlus, 360View, and FTS:

  • Offers a subscription based module
  • Combines specialist third party business entity data content with Interactive Data's security reference data
  • Includes full legal names of issuers and ultimate parent entities
  • Provides specialist researched data plus full audit trails
  • Delivers information on a daily basis (end-of-day)
  • Designed for use with industry standard identifiers such as CUSIP, SEDOL and ISIN.
  • Offers direct support for customer queries