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Entity Data | Legal Entity Data

Business Description

Entity data providing business descriptions for legal entities and organisations.

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Key facts for Business Description

Coverage metric

Geography:
North America, Asia / Pacific, EMEA, Latin America and the Caribbean
History:
From 1999
Coverage count:
Legal entities - 8000000 Organisations/People, 68000 Organisations/People

Delivery metadata

Data Frequency
Intra‑day
Language
Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, English
Delivery methods:
Excel, Web Service, API, Deployed/Onsite Servers, SFTP, Cloud, Desktop, FTP, Bulk, Snowflake, Website
Data formats:
CSV, GZIP, JSON, SQL, Delimited, Text, Bitmap, PCAP, Zip Archive, PDF, XML, Python, HTML, MPEG, User Interface
Minimum service frequency
Intra‑day

Overview of Business Description

UNDERSTAND ENTITY ACTIVITIES

Descriptions summarise a view of an entity

  1. With the key words used in the business descriptions, users can discover companies based on the key words they're searching with
  2. Enables screening using key words
  3. Support investment research with trusted company intelligence
BUSINESS ACTIVITY PROFILES

Entity Business Descriptions/Summary

  1. Curated summaries of company activity, location, and competitors in ready-to-use format.
  2. Coverage includes 8M+ short descriptions and 68K long descriptions.
  3. Supports screening and discovery across public and private companies globally.
BUILT FOR ENTITY RESEARCH

Built for discovering companies

  1. Companies with descriptions become more discoverable via search and screeners.
  2. Screeners can be built with the key words available in descriptions.

Description of the dataset

  • LSEG delivers standardized business profiles that help clients identify, describe and compare legal entities and companies with confidence. We capture registered and trading names, registration details, incorporation context, jurisdictions, legal status and primary address information.
  • Our content enriches core entity records with industry classifications, concise business narratives and parent–subsidiary context. We help onboarding, KYC and counterparty risk teams understand what an entity does and how it fits within a corporate group.
  • We normalize business description attributes to support consistent entity resolution across internal systems and external data sources. LSEG structures the information for integration into due diligence, master data management and hierarchy analysis workflows.

Accessing the dataset

This dataset can be used by the following products. Talk to us to learn more about different packages and offerings.

Wealth LSEG Data Platform
Wealth LSEG Data Platform provides a single access layer to LSEG and third-party data for wealth management workflows. It supports cloud-enabled data access, distribution and application development, enabling users to consume data and analytics through flexible delivery options and platform services.

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