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Compliance Report

D&B Compliance Reports contain the freshest, most up-to-date D&B information from D&B’s global database. D&B Compliance Reports present compliance professionals with the information required to efficiently and thoroughly conduct customer due diligence procedures.

D&B Compliance Reports provide essential reference information to support the compliance with key regulations such as Know Your Customer (KYC), the 3rd EU Money Laundering Directive, and FCPA. The information will support verification and identification of a business and the people associated with the business, as well as, screen the entities against Watch Lists and information on Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs).

From the D&B Compliance Report it is possible to explore a corporate structure through the Global Family Tree, investigate other businesses within that corporate structure, and view the corresponding reports alongside that of the target company. You can view filing history and order copies of filed documents from local registries globally.Snapshot reports or PDFs of reports can be saved and reviewed through the D&B Onboard system. You can also show any notes or references saved under the same D-U-N-S Number.

Data Provided Within a Compliance Report

The Compliance report within D&B Onboard is known as an Electronic Compliance File (ECF). There are 11 markets for which we can deliver ECF reports. An HTML format file is returned for companies in markets for which D&B cannot provide an ECF. The principles and trade styles shown in this report can also be used to gain even deeper knowledge of the business using Enhanced Screening and RDC (Regulatory DataCorp, Inc.).

The contents of the ECF report is displayed via a series of tabs labelled as shown in the following table:

Tabs on the ECF Report

Summary

The first section of the summary page is an identification section verifying D-U-N-S Number, registered address, registration number (if applicable) and a trading name. This section also shows whether or not the business is active, your order reference and the date on which the report was ordered. Following this, an operational summary confirms identification data in greater detail. The Summary section also contains a full Compliance Summary, Principals/Directors overview and their current positions, Financials Overview, Ownership Summary, and Public Filings Summary.

History & Operations

The detailed information on the history of a company provided here includes background on the legal structure of the business, incorporation details & share capital. Also featured are details of company operations, the geographic scope of the business, and the key holdings.

Business Report

Provides an executive summary and information on the business history, financials, scores, supplier risk, etc.

Global Family Tree

Help you to understand relationships within a corporate structure.

Compliance

Please see help section on Know Your Customer data within a Compliance report.

Ownership

Expanded corporate linkage allows you to more easily view and assess risk across different parts of an organisation . Corporate linkage is the relationship between different companies within a corporate family. Linkage occurs in the D&B database when one business entity controls another business entity because it has financial or legal responsibility for another business, creating a Headquarters / Branch or Parent/Subsidiary relationship. The information in this section is updated from D&B's global linkage database daily and reflects mergers, acquisitions, openings and closings. For additional details on recent events, please review the Special Events and History and Operations sections.

Principals

This section provides details of the officers and/or principals of the business. Availability of this information varies significantly between countries, from a list of principals to a detailed list of principals from public registries, with a complete list of current and previous associations, allowing you to build a clear picture of the management of the business, with any track record of success or business failures.

CallML Reports

Any CallML reports pulled are stored under CallML tab within the report.

Filing History

This section gives visibility of the documents filed by the target company, including details of the type of document, the document description and the filing date.

Public Filings

Past and present legal activities that could impact a company’s financial stability and operations. These can include insolvency processes, lawsuits, liens, judgments, protested bills and secured borrowings and other legal events dependent upon local laws and data availability.

Events

This section provides details of miscellaneous special events impacting the business, normally less critical that the legal/public filing events detailed in the Public Filings tab. This may include press clippings, changes of name or address etc.

Financials

A company’s performance and stability data can be critical to your decision making. Use this section to access D&B’s coverage of public company financial statements as well as the most complete listing of private company financial statements available anywhere.

Predictive Scores

To more effectively mitigate risk, use D&B Predictive Scores to assess a company’s future outlook. By calculating the likelihood of business success or failure, you’ll make faster, more consistent decisions.

Trade Payments

D&B collects over 750 million payment experiences from thousands of companies annually. This is critical information that can help you quickly assess payment habits of prospects and customers. The payment summaries below offer you a picture of how a company is paying its vendors, repaying bank loans, and meeting other financial obligations.

Web Search

This will display up to ten Google search results relating to the search criteria entered.

Sources

This section contains details of where D&B data is procured from, how information is gathered and when it is updated, based on the country in which the entity is located. Other sources may also have been used and our providers are subject to change.For more information, click on Sources Tab within online Help.

Customer Services

Provides contact information for customer support.

Snapshots

Clicking on this link will display any previously taken snapshots on the target company. From here you can review the snapshot or order a live report.

Compliance Report Summary

The compliance report summary contains full identification data, a summary of the directors, an overview of the financials, details of corporate linkage and any public filings. The Onboard compliance report summary also contains a full compliance summary. The Ordered From section of the compliance report summary shows the match criteria, the report selected, where it was ordered from, and the report delivered.

The following table lists the information found in the Compliance Report Summary:

Information Included in the Compliance Report Summary

Operational Summary

Company name
Trading as
Trading address
Registered address
Web address
Email
Phone
Registration number
D-U-N-S Number
Line of business
US SIC code
NACE Code
Local activity code
Number of employees
Age of business
Date incorporated
Legal form
Latest accounts date
Latest accounts available

Compliance Summary

List of registered directors/principals includes full name and position.
Sanctions check against country
Sanctions check against company & principals
Match to supervisory or regulatory information (match/no match)
Business indicator (active/inactive)
Parent company (Yes/No)
Stock exchange details (stock listed? Ticker available?)
Financial summary (statement date, sales turnover, total assets, net worth)

Financial Overview

Shows latest accounts date and currency in which accounts are shown plus a % change versus prior year.
Turnover
Profit Before Tax
Tangible Net Worth
Total Assets
Total Fixed Assets
Total Current Assets
Total Current Liabilities
Employee Number

Ownership Summary

Immediate Parent
Domestic Ultimate Parent
Global Ultimate Parent
Minority/Individual Shareholders
Foreign Owned?

Public Filings

Number of Court Judgments
Value of Court Judgments
Insolvency Process Indicator

The following is an example of the Compliance Report Summary:

Audit Trail

To help you to understand why a certain report has been delivered, D&B Onboard provides an audit trail in Compliance Summary report detailing the business on which you searched, the business selected, and the report delivered. It could be that you have searched for a business and then selected a report but that the report delivered differs in name to that which you selected; the report selected could be a branch location of a larger business. The Onboard audit trail helps you to understand this relationship.

Know Your Customer (KYC) Data

D&B Onboard combines D&B’s Know Your Customer (KYC) data with D&B’s trusted scores and ratings. The Know Your Customer data is found within the Compliance tab of the D&B Onboard Compliance report.

It provides:

  • Sanctions List checks against country, company, and principals
  • Regulatory/supervisory information
  • Active company or not
  • Parent company owned
  • Stock Exchange details (Stock listed? Ticker available?)
  • Financial Summary containing Statement Date, Sales Turnover, Total Assets, Net Worth

The following is an example of the Know Your Customer section of the Compliance Report:

In addition to this KYC data you can also order Global Family Tree reports to show linkage across an entire corporate group structure.

D&B Onboard can also provide you with scanned copies of the original documents filed by the target company. If the target company is located in the UK then Onboard will direct you to Companies House filing history. You can select which documents you require and order these directly through Onboard.

Republic of Ireland and International documents are also available through Onboard. Availability of international documents will be shown at the time of ordering as will the associated costs of ordering this data.

It is possible to download up to 20 documents at any one time by selecting multiple documents.