Why CounterpartyLink?

CounterpartyLink was formed to be the world's leading source of high-quality data on legal entities, specifically designed to support an effective compliance regime.

CounterpartyLink believes that accurate legal entity data used in the financial services industry is a core, central component of regulatory compliance, operational efficiency and good client and coutnerparty relationship management.

In the past, the effects of using inconsistent legal entity data, accumulated in different business units, countries or product silos were – at worst – an inconvenience because of account processing inefficiencies and customer service problems.

With CounterpartyLink, your organisation gains a substantial tool to aid in complying with regulations and creating a complete view of risk exposures.

Our mission is to reduce the burden of collecting and maintaining compliant legal entity data, by providing accurate and auditable global information from primary sources, and maintaining it through efficient, documented processes.

CounterpartyLink is today’s highest quality source of legal entity data. Here’s why:

  • Thorough Original Sourcing. Data is collected from primary sources and registration documents and cross-verified with a second source when it improves accuracy and timeliness.
  • Reducing the Maintenance Burden. CounterpartyLink monitors each entity record for corporate actions and other changes or notifications on a continuous basis. Clients who contract with CounterpartyLink for a specific record set receive updates to those records for the contract period.
  • Rigorous Quality Assurance Standards. Data is collected and validated using rigorous quality assurance procedures. These steps help provide your organisation with quality data for credit risk management and regulatory compliance.
  • Qualified Data Collection Staff. Data is collected and maintained by a highly qualified, specialised staff. Each data analyst completes an extensive training program, and data analyst team members are continually reviewed for their adherence to the strict CounterpartyLink procedures and quality standards.
  • Comprehensive Content. CounterpartyLink contains extensive, multi-layered detail on each entity. For example, in addition to legal name, CounterpartyLink contains alias information as well as address fields that cover registered address, headquarters and mailing address.
  • Current, Relevant Rules. CounterpartyLink data is collected, validated and maintained using automated rules that are continually monitored and adapted for factors including, but not limited to, changes in underlying data sources and regulatory requirements.

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