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Entity Data

Entity data covering legal and private companies, including identifiers, classifications, business descriptions, hierarchies and profile data.

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Understanding Entity Data

Trusted entity intelligence at scale

  1. Access legal entities, hierarchies and identifiers from authentic sources.
  2. Cover Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI), Registration numbers and Tax IDs.
  3. Support onboarding, screening and entity resolution workflows.

Accelerate onboarding and reduce risk

  1. Strengthen Know Your Customer (KYC) and country of risk workflows with verified records.
  2. Improve counterparty analysis through trusted hierarchies.
  3. Reduce manual entity mapping across fragmented systems & enable inter-operability via PermID Linkages.

Built on persistent entity identification

  1. Link entities using PermID to eliminate duplicates across systems.
  2. Cross-reference entities through Entity Matching APIs.
  3. Govern data lineage through compliance-ready frame works.

Features & Benefits

What our Entity Data offers 

  • 1999
    History since
  • 242
    Jurisdictions
  • 27 million
    Legal entities
  • 3 million
    Legal entity identifiers
  • 7 million
    TRBC industry codes

A closer look at our Entity Data category

Entity Data catalogue

Most-adopted Entity Data datasets across customers

Entity Profile Data

ENTITY DATA INTELLIGENCE
Legal entity profile data capturing core organisation information for reference use.

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Legal Identifiers

ENTITY DATA BACKBONE
Legal entity identifier dataset supporting consistent entity recognition and reference across LSEG entity data.

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Verified Entity Data as a Service (VEDaaS)

TRUSTED ENTITY DATA
Verified legal entity data service with a data dictionary available for dataset-level field reference.

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Entity Data dataset-level view

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Frequently asked questions

  • LSEG Entity Data accelerates client onboarding by supplying verified legal entity records LEI, registration numbers, addresses, corporate hierarchies covering KYC, MiFID II, and regulatory needs via VEDaaS (Managed & Enhanced Data Services) and DataScope suite of products. For entity resolution across systems, tools like PermID and the Entity Matching API cross-reference internal identifiers to consistently link entities across datasets, reducing manual, error-prone data management.

  • LSEG connects entity data across companies using PermIDs - identifiers that eliminate duplicates and enable interoperability across systems. For compliance, data is structured in two layers: a Business/Logical Layer standardising terminology via a Business Glossary, and a Physical/Technical Layer housing databases and master data sources. Solidatus governs data lineage and ensures regulatory compliance (e.g. DORA).

  • LSEG covers global entities including corporations, academic institutions, partnerships, government agencies, and REITs. Data is sourced from corporate registries, regulators, and company websites. Each entity has a unique PermID, with classifications like TRBC, NAICS, NACE, and SIC. Descriptions provide context, while relationships (parent, subsidiary, affiliates, JVs) are defined by ownership and voting rights.