Our Expertise
Our strength is in combining data sources and creating links between them. We supplement, and link, the ownership and contact information we receive from our IPs with our own research, and integrate our own M&A data, creating reciprocal links between deals and company financials.
These are some of our areas of expertise:
Private companies
We have detailed information on listed companies, but our private company coverage is unrivalled. Over 99% of the companies we have information for are privately owned. We have regional and national coverage.
Listed companies
We have information on over 60,000 listed and major unlisted and delisted companies worldwide.
Industry-specific products
Bankscope 30,000 banks worldwide
Isis 9,000 insurance companies
M&A deals and rumours
Zephyr has information on deals and rumours, with editorial, for deals worldwide.
Proprietary BvD information
M&A deals
Our teams of researchers and journalists monitor deal activity worldwide. We collect information on deals and rumours and create links to the financial information we hold on our products.
Ownership information
Our ownership information is becoming increasingly important to our customers’ research processes. When we were initially developing our international products, it became clear that there was no viable source of pan-European, or international, company ownership information. We decided to merge and link the information from our IPs, and complement this with our own research. This has now become an important part of our offering and a significant operation. Our bespoke research includes many sources such as local stock exchanges, newswires, companies’ reports and accounts and direct contact with the companies themselves. We show very detailed, direct and indirect, ownership information, a company’s level of independence in relation to its shareholders plus the global and domestic ultimate owners.
Company overviews
We have proprietary research on companies’ activities, history, the countries they operate in and their main products and services, for approaching one million companies around the world.
Directors and contacts
We research and supplement information on the contacts we get from our IPs - directors, executives, shareholders and advisors - to create a global database of individuals associated with companies.
Customisation and integration
BvD Toolkit
In our BvD Toolkit we offer a number of options to help you integrate your systems and data with our products, and customise how you use them. These range from simple Addins to help with customised analysis, to accessing our Webservices architecture for customisation. We offer advice and support at all stages.
Catalysts
Our Catalysts speed up the use of our products for specific applications. They include our credit management tool, FACT, that helps you develop your own scoring, modelling and rating analyses using a combination of data sources. TP Catalyst is a wizard-led product that helps create professional Transfer Pricing reports.