Global Corporate Linkage & Company Ownership Intelligence Suite | Worldwide | Updated Weekly

Veridion’s Corporate Linkage data product offers a comprehensive, dynamic, and scalable view of inter-company relationships across the globe. It goes beyond traditional registry data by leveraging a blend of legal records and digital footprint intelligence to map corporate structures, operational affiliations, and brand ecosystems. The result is a robust and nuanced corporate family tree that reflects both legal ownership and real-world business activity. This data product enables organizations to understand who owns whom, how entities are connected, and what operational or financial relationships exist between them. Veridion’s proprietary models and heuristics help fill the gaps left by traditional data vendors, providing linkage across borders, industries, and data silos. Veridion combines two foundational sources of entity data: 1. Legal View Linkage - Derived from government and state registries - Based on filings, corporate identifiers, registration hierarchies - Connects entities across jurisdictions using legal documentation - Captures official parent-subsidiary relationships 2. Digital View Linkage - Derived from online sources such as: --- Corporate websites --- Press releases and M&A news --- Social media --- Product and brand domains - Uses machine learning models to infer relationships not visible in registry data (e.g., franchises, digital brands, shell companies) - Enables detection of affiliate groups, franchise networks, and joint ventures By merging these two views, Veridion creates a hybrid model that recognizes both formal and informal relationships—tracking operational realities that are often overlooked in purely legal datasets. Key Components of Veridion Corporate Linkage: - Ultimate Parent: Identifies the top-most entity in the ownership chain. - Direct Parent/Subsidiary: Documents immediate ownership relationships. - Affiliate Groups: Includes brands, franchises, JVs, and operational relationships beyond legal ownership. - Digital Entity–Legal Entity Mapping: Resolves differences between an operational business and its legal counterpart. - Cross-Border Linkages: Connects global corporate structures that span multiple jurisdictions. - Ownership Classification: Identifies if an entity is PE-backed, state-owned, or family-owned. - Confidence Scores: Indicates the strength and reliability of inferred connections. - Source Traceability: Shows the provenance of the relationship (e.g., website, registry, press article). Weekly updates from both registry and online sources to maintain real-time relevance. Key Use Cases by Industry: - Financial Services: KYC, AML & Credit Risk --- Corporate Beneficiary Mapping: Identify UBOs (Ultimate Beneficial Owners) in complex entity structures for regulatory compliance. --- Exposure Analysis: Aggregate credit risk across all subsidiaries of a borrower group. --- Sanctions Screening: Surface hidden affiliations with sanctioned or high-risk entities. - Procurement & Supply Chain --- Supplier Consolidation: Roll up entities to their corporate parents for unified supplier management and spend analysis. --- Third-Party Risk Management: Detect indirect exposure to high-risk or sanctioned groups. --- Sourcing Diversification: Uncover affiliate suppliers under the same ownership, aiding supply chain resilience planning. - Insurance --- Group Risk Aggregation: Evaluate exposure at the group level for policy underwriting. --- Business Classification Correction: Link smaller operations to parent companies with more accurate or complete industry codes. --- Portfolio Cleansing: Detect duplicate or fragmented records of the same business group. - Market Intelligence & Strategy --- Competitive Mapping: Understand the full ecosystem of a rival firm, including its brands, subsidiaries, and acquisitions. --- M&A Target Analysis: Map the full breadth of an acquisition target’s footprint, including hidden JVs or inactive brands. --- Expansion Intelligence: Spot affiliated companies operating in new or adjacent markets. - ESG & Sustainability --- Group-Level Emissions Tracking: Aggregate Scope 1–3 data across subsidiaries for a holistic ESG profile. --- Regulatory Compliance: Meet obligations under CSRD, CS3D, and other global ESG directives that require parent-subsidiary disclosure. --- Greenwashing Detection: Assess if a “green” brand is tied to a parent company with negative ESG signals. Practical Examples: A global bank is evaluating a loan for a logistics firm. Using Veridion’s linkage data, they discover the borrower is a subsidiary of a conglomerate flagged for environmental violations in another jurisdiction. A multinational insurer uses the data to identify all subsidiaries of a newly acquired firm. They adjust underwriting models to reflect the true scope of the risk and eliminate misclassified entities. A procurement director relies on Veridion’s linkage engine to consolidate suppliers under common ownership. This enables better volume discounts, negotiation leverage, and contract unification. Differentiators - Global Coverage: 129M+ companies in 250+ jurisdictions, including emerging markets. - Weekly Updates: Ensures data freshness and accurate real-time ownership mapping. - Legal + Digital Fusion: Captures both official filings and operational relationships. - Heuristic Matching Engine: High match rates even with minimal inputs (e.g., name + website). - Scalable Delivery: Data available via API, batch delivery, or integration into platforms like Snowflake. By bridging the gap between legal structures and digital realities, Veridion redefines how ownership data is captured, interpreted, and applied.