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 clients meet their requirements for managing credit, market and operational risk, financial instruments' collateral, as well as compliance under a variety of global risk management and liquidity risk regulations, such as UCITS III/IV, the EU Third Money Laundering Directive, the Capital Requirements Directive (Basel II/III), MiFID (conflicts of interest), Investment Company Act of 1940, and the USA PATRIOT Act.

Interactive Data’s award-winning* Business Entity Service combines specialist counterparty reference data with its own security-level reference data for a wide range of asset classes including:

Global listed equities and fixed income
Global corporate bonds, government and agency issues
Global asset-backed securities
U.S. municipal bonds
Funds
Derivatives (options, warrants and structured / hybrid)

The service establishes relationships between issues, issuers and parent entities and maps them directly to a client'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
Entity full legal names
Registered and operational address information
Phone number
Web site
Immediate and ultimate parent entity identifiers

Immediate and ultimate parent entity details
Map to client proprietary code (if required)
Industrial classifications
Aggregate voting rights
Entity debt outstanding

Interactive Data Business Entity Service

The Business Entity Service is available via the Securities Information Retrieval Service (SIRS), RemotePlus, 360View, FTS and the Business Entity Service Web-based portal.

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, immediate and ultimate parent entities
Provides specialist researched data plus audit trail of the entity-parent linkage
Delivers information on a daily basis (intra-day and end-of-day)
Designed for use with industry standard identifiers such as CUSIP, SEDOL and ISIN
Offers direct support for client queries