Data sources

Uses data from 121 public sources.

Company registers, statutory filings, court and regulator records, sanctions lists and public signals — every one listed below with its coverage, licence and attribution. No private black boxes, no scraped logins.

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121

public sources in the catalog

work without any key

company registers & identifiers

coverage regions

47 sources

Company registries & identifiers

National company registers and global identifiers (LEI, Wikidata) — used to resolve who a company legally is before anything else runs.

GLEIF LEI records
Global
profile — updates daily
Licence: CC0 1.0
US state business-entity registries (Socrata open data)
US-NY, US-CO, US-CT (US-OR opt-in)
profile — updates daily/weekly
Licence: CO/CT public domain; NY OPEN-NY terms (verify)
Zefix (Swiss central business names index)
Switzerlandfree keyattribution
profile — updates daily
Licence: Swiss OGD — open use, source required
GLEIF LEI records by country (global discovery fallback)
Global
profile · corpus — updates daily
Licence: CC0 1.0
Wikidata companies by country (incl. official website)
Global
profile · corpus · domains — updates continuous
Licence: CC0 1.0
OpenStreetMap Overpass (local businesses)
Global
profile — updates minutely
Licence: ODbL 1.0 (share-alike on derived DBs)
Brreg company registry (NO)
NO
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: NLOD 2.0
Companies House Bulk company registry (GB)
GB
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0
PRH YTJ company registry (FI)
FIattribution
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: CC BY 4.0
CVR Denmark company registry (DK)
DKfree key
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Danish Business Authority CVR terms — free, commercial OK after registration
Bolagsverket company registry (SE)
SEfree keyattribution
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: EU HVD — CC BY 4.0
NTA Houjin Bangou company registry (JP)
JPattribution
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Japan Government Standard Terms of Use 2.0 (CC BY 4.0 compatible)
Insee Sirene company registry (FR)
FRfree key
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
CRO Ireland company registry (IE)
IEattribution
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: CC BY 4.0
ARES Czechia company registry (CZ)
CZ
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Czech open data (no restriction)
ACRA Singapore company registry (SG)
SG
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Singapore Open Data Licence
Corporations Canada company registry (CA)
CA
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Open Government Licence – Canada
ABR Australia company registry (AU)
AUattribution
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: CC BY 3.0 AU
NZ Companies Register company registry (NZ)
NZfree keyattribution
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (MBIE)
MCA India company registry (IN)
INfree key
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: India NDSAP / GODL
Israel Registrar company registry (IL)
IL
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: data.gov.il 'Other (Open)'
Ariregister Estonia company registry (EE)
EEattribution
profile · corpus — updates daily
Licence: Estonian open data (CC BY 4.0)
UZN Registrs Latvia company registry (LV)
LV
profile · corpus — updates daily
Licence: CC0 1.0
JAR Lithuania company registry (LT)
LTattribution
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Lithuanian open data (CC BY 4.0)
RPO Slovakia company registry (SK)
SKattribution
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Slovak open data (attribution)
Receita Federal Brazil company registry (BR)
BR
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: Brazil LAI open data
Data Gov HK Companies company registry (HK)
HK
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: DATA.GOV.HK terms (commercial OK)
Datos Gob Chile company registry (CL)
CLattribution
profile · corpus — updates annual
Licence: Chile open-data policy (CC BY)
USR Ukraine company registry (UA)
UAattribution
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Data Gov CY Companies company registry (CY)
CYattribution
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: Cyprus open data (CC BY 4.0)
DBD Thailand company registry (TH)
TH
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Open Data Common (TH)
Data Gov RO ONRC company registry (RO)
ROattribution
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: CC BY 4.0 / OGL-ROU-1.0
Opendata Jordan CCD company registry (JO)
JO
profile · corpus — updates annual
Licence: No explicit licence on dataset page
Sudreg Croatia company registry (HR)
HRfree key
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Croatian open data (free OAuth client)
Companybook Bulgaria company registry (BG)
BGfree key
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Third-party rebuild of BG open data — free tier ToS
GEMI Greece company registry (GR)
GRfree key
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: GEMI open data (free key)
Moldova ASP company registry (MD)
MD
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: Licence 'Not Specified' on dataset.gov.md
Argentina IGJ company registry (AR)
ARattribution
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: CC BY 4.0
DNIT Paraguay RUC company registry (PY)
PY
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: Paraguay public taxpayer roll
Caipo Barbados company registry (BB)
BB
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Public registry search (robots Crawl-delay 10 s)
RCI Monaco company registry (MC)
MC
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Public registry search
Arubachamber company registry (AW)
AW
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Public registry search
Acpce Congo company registry (CG)
CG
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: Public list page
KVK Netherlands company registry (NL)
NLfree keyattribution
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: KVK open data (HVDS, CC BY 4.0)
Zefix Switzerland company registry (CH)
CHfree keyattribution
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Swiss OGD — open use, source required
NTS South Korea company registry (KR)
KRfree key
profile · corpus — updates weekly
Licence: Korea Public Data Portal (free key)
KBO BCE Belgium company registry (BE)
BEfree key
profile · corpus — updates monthly
Licence: KBO open data (free registration; commercial reuse licence)

13 sources

Filings, financials & ownership

Statutory filings, annual accounts, beneficial owners, officers and private-offering notices — the financial and ownership picture.

SEC EDGAR full-text search + filings
US
financial metric · profile — updates real-time
Licence: US Government work — public domain
SEC XBRL company facts
US (public cos.)
financial metric — updates per filing
Licence: US Government work — public domain
SEC Schedule 13D/13G (>5% holders)
US
ownership link · beneficial owner — updates per filing
Licence: US Government work — public domain
SEC Form 3/4/5 insiders
US
officers directors · contacts — updates per filing
Licence: US Government work — public domain
SEC Form D (private offerings)
US
funding round · investor link · officers directors — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
Earnings call transcripts (Alpha Vantage, 8-K fallback)
US (public cos.)free key
market data — updates quarterly
Licence: Alpha Vantage ToS (free tier)
UK Companies House (officers + PSC)
UKfree key
officers directors · beneficial owner — updates real-time
Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0
GLEIF Level 2 (parents / subsidiaries)
Global
ownership link — updates daily
Licence: CC0 1.0
Annuaire des Entreprises / recherche-entreprises (FR)
France
profile · officers directors · financial metric — updates daily
Licence: Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
ESEF annual financial reports via filings.xbrl.org (EU/EEA listed)
EU/EEA (regulated-market issuers)
financial metric — updates per filing
Licence: Public filings; filings.xbrl.org open data
Brønnøysund Regnskapsregisteret annual accounts
Norway
financial metric — updates per filing
Licence: NLOD 2.0
Estonian e-Business Register annual-report key figures
Estoniaattribution
financial metric — updates monthly
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Estonian e-Business Register — management-board members (open data)
Estoniaattribution
officers directors — updates daily
Licence: CC BY 4.0

28 sources

Courts, enforcement & insolvency

Court dockets, regulator enforcement decisions, insolvency gazettes and disqualified-director registers.

CourtListener / RECAP (US federal + state dockets)
USattribution
litigation — updates continuous
Licence: Free Law Project — public court records, attribution requested
SEC Litigation Releases
US
litigation — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
SEC Administrative Proceedings
US
litigation — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
SEC newsroom press releases
US
litigation — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
US DOJ press releases API
US
litigation — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
US FTC press releases (RSS)
US
litigation — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
US FTC cases and proceedings
US
litigation — updates weekly
Licence: US Government work — public domain
US CFTC press releases
US
litigation — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
US CFPB enforcement actions
US
litigation — updates weekly
Licence: US Government work — public domain
Arizona AG consumer settlements
US-AZ
litigation — updates monthly
Licence: US state public record
California Civil Rights Department actions
US-CA
litigation — updates weekly
Licence: US state public record
NHTSA defect investigations + recalls
US
litigation — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
OSHA inspections (DOL enforcement API v4)
USfree key
litigation — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
UK FCA final notices
UK
litigation — updates weekly
Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0
ESMA sanctions register (EU national regulators, MiFID/UCITS/AIFMD/CRA...)
EU/EEA (27 NCAs)attribution
litigation — updates as NCAs report
Licence: ESMA legal notice — reproduction authorised with source acknowledged
BaFin Maßnahmen & Sanktionen (fines, KWG/GwG orders, special commissioners)
DEattribution
litigation — updates daily (RSS) / archive
Licence: © BaFin — reuse with source attribution (not a formal open licence)
Finansinspektionen sanctions (remarks, administrative fines, withdrawals)
SEattribution
litigation — updates as published
Licence: Swedish public documents — reuse with attribution
Autorité de la concurrence decisions (antitrust fines, merger control)
FR
litigation — updates daily
Licence: Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
CNIL sanctions (DILA open-data délibérations)
FR
litigation — updates daily
Licence: Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
AMF Commission des sanctions decisions + transactions
FRattribution
litigation — updates as published
Licence: AMF site — reuse with source attribution
ACPR Commission des sanctions (banking/insurance)
FRattribution
litigation — updates as published
Licence: Banque de France/ACPR site — reuse with source attribution
National DPA GDPR fines / Art. 60 decisions (EDPB news)
EU/EEAattribution
litigation — updates as published
Licence: EDPB legal notice — reuse authorised with attribution
SEBI enforcement orders (RSS window)
INattribution
litigation — updates daily (recent only)
Licence: Indian government public records — reuse with attribution (verify)
The London Gazette (insolvency + corporate notices)
UK
insolvency event — updates daily
Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0
BODACC (French commercial & insolvency notices)
France
insolvency event — updates daily
Licence: Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
UK disqualified directors register
UKfree key
disqualification — updates daily
Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0
UK Companies House dossier (iXBRL accounts, PSC, insolvency)
UKfree key
financial metric · ownership link · insolvency event · company filing status — updates real-time
Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0
Brønnøysund per-company lookup (roles, bankruptcy flags)
Norway
profile · officers directors · insolvency event — updates daily
Licence: NLOD 2.0

7 sources

Sanctions & PEP screening

Official sanctions and exclusion lists plus a politically-exposed-person screen. Hits are tiered by identity match before they count.

OFAC SDN list (US Treasury)
Global (US list)
sanctions hit — updates several times a week
Licence: US Government work — public domain
EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions (FSF)
Global (EU list)
sanctions hit — updates on every designation
Licence: EU Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU) — commercial reuse OK
UN Security Council Consolidated List
Global (UN list)attribution
sanctions hit — updates on every designation
Licence: UN public document — reproducible with attribution
UK Sanctions List (FCDO; replaces OFSI ConList)
Global (UK list)
sanctions hit — updates several times a week
Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0
UK FCA register — warning list / unauthorised firms
UKfree keyattribution
sanctions hit — updates daily
Licence: FCA register terms — free API, attribution
Wikidata politically-exposed-person screen
Global
pep hit — updates continuous
Licence: CC0 1.0
SAM.gov exclusions (US federal debarment)
USfree key
sanctions hit — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain

17 sources

News, IP & growth signals

News, patents, research, hiring, web and developer traction — the upside side of the verdict, plus adverse media.

GDELT DOC 2.0 (global news, adverse media)
Globalattribution
adverse media · press momentum — updates 15 min
Licence: GDELT open — free use with attribution
USPTO Open Data Portal (patents; ex-PatentsView)
USfree key
patent grant — updates weekly
Licence: US Government work — public domain
EPO OPS worldwide patent families
Worldwide (100+ offices)free key
patent grant — updates weekly
Licence: EPO OPS fair-use terms (free ≤4 GB/week)
USPTO ODP patents by applicant (company-scoped)
USfree key
patent grant — updates weekly
Licence: US Government work — public domain
Product Hunt launches
Globalfree key
product launch — updates daily
Licence: Product Hunt API terms (free developer token)
OpenAlex (research output / citations)
Global
traction metric — updates daily
Licence: CC0 1.0
npm / PyPI / crates.io download counts
Global
traction metric · dev product — updates daily
Licence: npm & crates.io public APIs; pypistats (BigQuery public dataset)
USASpending.gov federal awards
US
traction metric · profile — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
Public ATS boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, …)
Global
hiring signal · hiring — updates hourly
Licence: Public embed APIs — job metadata public
GitHub org profile + repos
Global
web tech signal — updates real-time
Licence: GitHub API ToS
GitHub org activity (commits, contributors)
Global
dev product — updates real-time
Licence: GitHub API ToS
Hacker News mentions (Algolia)
Global
dev product — updates real-time
Licence: HN API — public
Apple App Store (iTunes Search)
Global
dev product — updates daily
Licence: Apple iTunes Search API terms (promotional use)
Tranco top-1M rank
Globalattribution
web traction — updates daily
Licence: Tranco — free for research & commercial use with citation
Internet Archive Wayback CDX
Global
web traction — updates continuous
Licence: Internet Archive terms — public metadata
DNS (DoH) + homepage fingerprint
Global
tech stack — updates on demand
Licence: Own ruleset over public DNS / homepage
Homepage tech-stack patterns
Global
web tech signal · tech stack — updates on demand
Licence: Own ruleset over the public homepage

9 sources

Contacts, domains & triggers

Official websites, published business contacts and trigger events (new filings, awards, officer changes) for the lead feed.

SAM.gov Entity API (UEI → website)
USfree key
domains — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
SEC submissions JSON (website, officers)
US
domains · contacts — updates per filing
Licence: US Government work — public domain
Wikidata P856 official website (id + name lookup)
Global
domains — updates continuous
Licence: CC0 1.0
USASpending recipient profiles (UEI/DUNS identity)
US
domains — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
SEC EDGAR daily index (Form D trigger)
US
triggers — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
USASpending new awards (trigger)
US
triggers — updates daily
Licence: US Government work — public domain
Companies House officer changes (trigger)
UKfree key
triggers — updates real-time
Licence: UK Open Government Licence v3.0
GitHub org members (contacts)
Global
contacts — updates real-time
Licence: GitHub API ToS
Company website team / leadership pages (direct fetch)
Global
contacts — updates on demand
Licence: Public web pages; robots.txt respected

Geography

Coverage by region

Global sources (LEI, sanctions lists, news, patents) apply to every company; national registers and regulators add depth where a company is registered.

Global27 sources
United States29 sources
United Kingdom8 sources
European Union30 sources
Rest of Europe8 sources
Americas7 sources
Asia-Pacific9 sources
Middle East & Africa3 sources

Attribution

Sources we credit by name

These sources allow reuse on condition that they are credited. MarketPrior uses data from each of them; the regulators among them (for example BaFin, AMF, ACPR and SEBI) publish their decisions without a formal open licence, so we cite each decision to its original page and do not imply any endorsement.

Uses data from UN Security Council Consolidated List
UN public document — reproducible with attribution
Uses data from UK FCA register — warning list / unauthorised firms
FCA register terms — free API, attribution
Uses data from CourtListener / RECAP (US federal + state dockets)
Free Law Project — public court records, attribution requested
Uses data from ESMA sanctions register (EU national regulators, MiFID/UCITS/AIFMD/CRA...)
ESMA legal notice — reproduction authorised with source acknowledged
Uses data from BaFin Maßnahmen & Sanktionen (fines, KWG/GwG orders, special commissioners)
© BaFin — reuse with source attribution (not a formal open licence)
Uses data from Finansinspektionen sanctions (remarks, administrative fines, withdrawals)
Swedish public documents — reuse with attribution
Uses data from AMF Commission des sanctions decisions + transactions
AMF site — reuse with source attribution
Uses data from ACPR Commission des sanctions (banking/insurance)
Banque de France/ACPR site — reuse with source attribution
Uses data from National DPA GDPR fines / Art. 60 decisions (EDPB news)
EDPB legal notice — reuse authorised with attribution
Uses data from SEBI enforcement orders (RSS window)
Indian government public records — reuse with attribution (verify)
Uses data from GDELT DOC 2.0 (global news, adverse media)
GDELT open — free use with attribution
Uses data from Estonian e-Business Register annual-report key figures
CC BY 4.0
Uses data from Estonian e-Business Register — management-board members (open data)
CC BY 4.0
Uses data from Zefix (Swiss central business names index)
Swiss OGD — open use, source required
Uses data from Tranco top-1M rank
Tranco — free for research & commercial use with citation
Uses data from PRH YTJ company registry (FI)
CC BY 4.0
Uses data from Bolagsverket company registry (SE)
EU HVD — CC BY 4.0
Uses data from NTA Houjin Bangou company registry (JP)
Japan Government Standard Terms of Use 2.0 (CC BY 4.0 compatible)
Uses data from CRO Ireland company registry (IE)
CC BY 4.0
Uses data from ABR Australia company registry (AU)
CC BY 3.0 AU
Uses data from NZ Companies Register company registry (NZ)
CC BY 4.0 (MBIE)
Uses data from Ariregister Estonia company registry (EE)
Estonian open data (CC BY 4.0)
Uses data from JAR Lithuania company registry (LT)
Lithuanian open data (CC BY 4.0)
Uses data from RPO Slovakia company registry (SK)
Slovak open data (attribution)
Uses data from Datos Gob Chile company registry (CL)
Chile open-data policy (CC BY)
Uses data from USR Ukraine company registry (UA)
CC BY 4.0
Uses data from Data Gov CY Companies company registry (CY)
Cyprus open data (CC BY 4.0)
Uses data from Data Gov RO ONRC company registry (RO)
CC BY 4.0 / OGL-ROU-1.0
Uses data from Argentina IGJ company registry (AR)
CC BY 4.0
Uses data from KVK Netherlands company registry (NL)
KVK open data (HVDS, CC BY 4.0)
Uses data from Zefix Switzerland company registry (CH)
Swiss OGD — open use, source required

Evaluated, not wired

Sources we deliberately don't use

Checked against their terms and left out. Where a source aggregates lists we can read directly, we read the originals instead.

Source	Why not
OpenSanctions bulk data / API	CC BY-NC 4.0 — non-commercial only; commercial use needs a paid licence. The individual lists it aggregates (OFAC, EU, UN, UK) are wired directly.
FINRA BrokerCheck	FINRA website Terms of Use restrict BrokerCheck data to personal, non-commercial use and forbid automated querying/redistribution.
OpenCorporates API	Free tier is for open-data/non-commercial projects (ODbL + share-alike); commercial use is paid.
Delaware Division of Corporations	Entity search is per-query paid for status/detail; no free API.
Bank of Lithuania sanctions page (lb.lt)	Behind a Cloudflare bot challenge (HTTP 403); reachable only via twin-browser. ESMA's register covers LB's MiFID/UCITS sanctions.
World Bank debarred firms API	Requires an Azure APIM subscription key not issued publicly; revisit if the World Bank publishes a keyed free tier.
Crossref REST API	Redundant with OpenAlex (which ingests Crossref) for company research output.
Google Play / Chrome Web Store pages	No public API; Google ToS forbid scraping. Only via twin-browser, and not wired by default.
PACER	Per-page fees; CourtListener/RECAP is used instead.
Clearbit / BuiltWith / Crunchbase / PitchBook	Paid APIs — out of scope (free-only stack).
AJPES Slovenia full access	Requires a paid AJPES account; connector stays gated.

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FAQ

Questions about our sources

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Does every finding link back to a source?

Yes. Each finding in a report carries the source URL or record reference it came from, and the cited memo drops any sentence that is not backed by a cited record.

What does "free key" mean?

The source is free to use but asks for a (free) registration key. If that key is not configured on our side, the source is skipped rather than guessed, and the report shows the gap.

Why is a well-known database missing?

We only wire sources whose terms allow commercial reuse. Sources that are non-commercial only, paid per query, or forbid automated access are listed below as evaluated and not wired.

How fresh is the data?

Each source is re-checked on its own cadence — sanctions, courts and filings daily, web and people signals weekly, company profiles monthly — and stale report sections refresh in the background.

Every finding, back to a public record.

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