CounterpartyLink History

CounterpartyLink was established early in 2005 by a group of executives from the financial information industry. Through the group’s long experience in working with some of the world’s largest financial organisations and exchanges, this team realised that the collection and maintenance of legal entity data was a crucial but often overlooked part of the reference data challenge. The group’s view was that there had been a shortage of sources for this information, particularly data that is collected and maintained with regard to today’s compliance requirements. CounterpartyLink was acquired in March 2008 by Investors Guaranty Global Alliance, a company which invests in, operates and develops technology solutions, services and content in financial services, financial data and risk applications, specialised business technologies and media. IGGA has its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland with offices in Toronto, Canada, Bermuda and Auckland, New Zealand.

Testimonials

We are able to provide direct client references about the accuracy of our data and the quality of our services. Please contact your local CounterpartyLink office.

The following are some:
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"We realised that to effectively cope with a rolling review of all clients we would need the collaboration of a specialist vendor. We reviewed the players in the market and CounterpartyLink came out on top for coverage, pricing and understanding of our requirements." VP / Head of Reference Data - Tier 1 US Investment Bank
"We chose CounterpartyLink not only because they have demonstrated their accurate, validated data content and have the coverage required, but also because of their flexibility and willingness to work with us to satisfy our sometimes unusual requirements." Solutions Director, Equity Products - Data Vendor
"We have an immediate requirement to de-duplicate, validate and assign a single internal identifier to every legal entity from around the world that we hold across a number of internal databases. We chose CounterpartyLink not only because they have the coverage and data fields required, but also because their data collection and validation standards are designed to meet stringent international regulatory requirements, which is of course a very important focus for us." Senior Advisor, Market and Insurance Risk Management - Largest Cooperative Financial Group, Canada
"We will use CounterpartyLink as the key source of standardised legal entity reference data for our operations and in our compliance department. As CounterpartyLink's product is a high quality, and most importantly, auditable source of information, it allows us to rely on a trusted partner to collect and maintain this data, which in turn will allow us to concentrate internal resources on higher value activities." Head of Compliance, London-based Investment Bank
"Maintaining accurate client and counterparty data across jurisdictions is an important challenge, and it is essential to our data strategy. We selected CounterpartyLink because they understand well our requirements as an Asset Manager and provide the high levels of service we require from our providers." Global Head of Change Management Data, Investment Managers, France