entity database

ORBIS enterprise database
by Moody's

Source to determine health and compare data on private companies

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Use Orbis to find, analyze and compare companies for better decision making and increased efficiency.

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Orbis database - a source of information on entities.

It has information on close to 450 million companies and entities across the globe – 41 million of these have detailed financial information.

It’s the most powerful comparable data resource on private companies – and it covers listed companies too.

 

It’s strengths include:

comparable information

extensive corporate ownership structures

a holistic view of companies

 

How does Orbis help you?

Use Orbis to get quick answers, verify companies or for detailed research and third-party screening.

Orbis is the ideal tool to verify a company exists and to source company reports – you’re much more likely to find a company report on Orbis than on any other company database. Orbis can provide you with comprehensive company reports, financial strength indicators and ownership information to help you research a company and assess risk associated with it.

You can choose from hundreds of search criteria and combine them to create very specific searches in Orbis.
With Orbis’s standardized formats, you can search for information on companies across regions and countries – using the same criteria. Orbis lets you use a single activity code when you search globally, because we’ve mapped international and local industry codes.

Orbis gives you tools to analyse groups of companies so finding peer groups and comparing companies against each other is quick and easy.

Get graphs, dynamic company structures, pivot analyses and other types of visualization tools and analyses so you can understand your results in seconds.

Orbis has a contemporary interface that’s very clean and easy to use: customize alerts, do time-series searching, drill down into the financials to see how they’re calculated, create your own variables and classifications, add in your forecast data.

There are lots of ways you can start blending Orbis data with your own. Whether it’s simply downloading data into Excel or uploading your own data into Orbis, you can easily combine data. You can also use APIs to enrich your own systems with Orbis data.

What you can do using Orbis

Financial health indicators for comparing companies from around the world and unified financial data make it quick and easy to assess customers, partners and suppliers.

Extensive data on corporate structures and beneficial owners, combined with data on politically exposed persons, sanctions and negative media coverage, facilitate a more accurate assessment of third parties than any other source.


Evaluate current suppliers for both financial and reputational risks, using financial risk indicators and extensive ownership structures.
 

Find comparable companies and create a financial analysis of your peer group for tax compliance.

Analyse new markets and regions and create business plans using facts. And you can use Orbis to enrich and refresh your CRM for more efficient sales and marketing teams.

Find targets/sellers using very precise searches, analyze peer groups and use our M&A data to help with your valuations.

Access our reference data for your data management projects. And Orbis can help you with matching/de-duping and data enhancing services, creating links between datasets across your organization and creating single views from data silos.

Orbis data highlights

•    Unique identifiers
•    LEI and other official company numbers
•    Industry codes
•    Trade descriptions
•    Detailed company descriptions
•    Standardized financials
•    Projected financials
•    Financial strength metrics
•    Agency ratings
•    Original documents
•    Document ordering

•    PEPs and sanctions
•    Adverse news screening
•    Beneficial owners
•    Global and domestic ultimate owners
•    Corporate structures
•    Sanctioned by extension entities
•    ESG research
•    News, including negative news filter
•    Directors and managers

•  M&A deals and rumoursPatents and intellectual property
•    Royalty agreements
•    Industry research
•    Advisors
•    Marine vessels
•    Public tender associations
•    Public interest entities (PIEs)
•    AML documentation
•    Stock data and earnings estimates
•    Corporate actions

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Compare companies worldwide

Our comparable, detailed, financial reports offer the perfect tools to search for companies, and then compare them, across borders, sectors and between peers.

A standard financial report includes 26 balance sheet items, 26 P&L account items and 33 ratios. Listed companies are in a more detailed format.

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Conflict checking and onboarding

Pathfinder, powered by Orbis, helps you carry out quick conflict checking and onboarding. It can reveal links between companies and groups, or with blacklists you’re monitoring, giving you the bigger picture.

New self-serve e-learning platform

Our new e-learning platform simplifies your online user experience by taking you step-by-step through tasks. You can access support via updated user guides, video tutorials and walk-throughs.

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Orbis is available via a range of channels

Use the Orbis database as a web platform or information source for one of Catalyst's specialized products. You have the option to combine data from the Orbis database with your own data using a number of APIs or custom delivery.

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