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Creditsafe

Credit reports with company financials, scores and limits for private and public firms

Overview

Creditsafe is a business credit-information company whose database also carries ownership fields. Its data-licensing page lists ultimate beneficial owners, global and domestic ultimate owners and corporate structures among the data elements, describes a database of almost 420 million companies drawn from more than 200 sources, and offers licensing in bulk or through an API[20].

Its compliance product, KYC Protect, builds profiles of the directors, shareholders and UBOs of a business from Creditsafe reports and screens them across eight risk categories: sanctions, enforcement, PEPs, adverse media, state-owned enterprises, profiles of interest, and, for the UK only, disqualified directors and the insolvency register[19]. The API supports ongoing monitoring of profiles with alerts for changes such as new sanctions, adverse media or PEP status, and the product cites 430 million company reports across more than 200 countries and territories[19].

Creditsafe’s pages do not describe how beneficial owners are derived, whether percentages are calculated through intermediate layers, or which sources support each finding, and bulk delivery is offered for 12 named countries rather than globally[20]. KYC Protect is described as having upfront pricing with no user limits, but no figures are published[19]. It suits firms that already buy Creditsafe credit reports and want ownership and screening on the same counterparties.

Creditsafe features

  • Credit score and limit change alerts
  • Accounts, name and address change alerts
  • Change of ultimate holding company
  • Insolvency events and CCJs
  • Email, dashboard, scheduled exports and API
  • Unlimited monitored companies
  • KYC Protect sanctions and PEP monitoring
  • Risk Score 0 to 100 predicting 12-month insolvency, updated daily

Creditsafe pricing

Quote-based; a free trial is offered; no limit on the number of monitored companies. KYC Protect is described as upfront pricing with no user limits, without published figures.

Creditsafe strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Broad credit and legal event coverage
  • Unlimited companies in monitoring
  • Email alerts plus API delivery
  • Compliance monitoring available in KYC Protect
  • Score scale, horizon and update frequency stated on its own site
  • Wide international coverage from one subscription

Limitations

  • Monitoring limited to 48 countries
  • Some alerts restricted by company type or country
  • No published prices
  • Compliance monitoring sold as a separate product
  • International Score letter bands not defined on the public page
  • Company counts and office counts differ between its own country sites

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