The short answer
To check a Swiss company, MarketPrior resolves it against Zefix, then screens it against the 4 global sanctions lists (OFAC SDN list, EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions, UN Security Council Consolidated List, UK Sanctions List), a PEP screen, global news and web signals. In total 29 catalogued sources apply to Swiss companies: 2 specific to Switzerland and 27 global. Every finding links to the record it came from, and gaps are shown rather than filled in.
At a glance
- Swiss sources
- 2
- Sources that apply in total
- 29 (incl. global)
- Company register
- Zefix
- Officers & directors
- Not from a national register
- Financial figures
- Not from a national source
- Sales triggers
- 3 (0 Swiss-specific)
How do you check a company in Switzerland?
Swiss companies are entered in the cantonal commercial registers; Zefix is the central index of those registers and identifies companies by their UID.
In MarketPrior, a Swiss company is first resolved to the right legal entity — using its national identifier and, where it has one, its LEI — so that every later lookup is about the same company. The report then combines what the Swiss sources publish with global sanctions, PEP, news and web signals, and every finding is cited to its record.
Which Swiss sources does MarketPrior read?
| Source | Provides | Updates | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zefix (Swiss central business names index) | company profile | daily | Swiss OGD — open use, source required |
| Zefix Switzerland company registry (CH) | company profile, searchable company corpus | weekly | Swiss OGD — open use, source required |
What else applies to every Swiss company?
Some of the most important checks are not national. These global sources are applied to every Swiss company:
- Sanctions: OFAC SDN list, EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions, UN Security Council Consolidated List, UK Sanctions List — with every hit tiered confirmed, probable or possible.
- Politically exposed persons: a PEP screen built on Wikidata.
- Identity and ownership: GLEIF LEI records and GLEIF Level 2 parent and subsidiary links.
- Adverse media: GDELT global news, classified for relevance, sentiment and materiality.
- Growth signals: public job boards, GitHub, web traffic rank, web-archive history, tech stack and app listings.
Which sales triggers cover Swiss companies?
There are no Swiss-specific registry triggers yet. These triggers work for companies in any country:
- Hiring spikes
- Tech adoption
- Website launches
What is not covered for Switzerland?
Public records are uneven between countries. Where a source is missing or thin, a MarketPrior report says so instead of filling the gap with a guess.
- Officers and directors are not read from a Swiss register feed. They can still appear from the company’s own website (team and leadership pages) and, for the largest groups, from global identifiers.
- Financial statements are not read from a Swiss source, so the financials section of a report will usually be empty for private Swiss companies.
- Beneficial owners are not read from a Swiss register. Ownership links come from GLEIF Level 2 parent and subsidiary data where the company has an LEI.
- No Swiss court or regulator feed is wired. Enforcement and litigation findings rely on global news (adverse media) and global sanctions lists.
- There are no Swiss-specific registry triggers yet; only the any-country triggers (hiring spikes, tech adoption, website launches) apply.