Bureau van Dijk
Bureau van Dijk provides global company data and ultimate beneficial owner analysis through its Orbis database, running inside your Zenoo KYB flows.
At a glance
Overview
Bureau van Dijk overview
Bureau van Dijk, part of Moody's Analytics, provides global company data through its Orbis database, including structured company hierarchies, ownership chains, and ultimate beneficial owner analysis. It is used by large enterprises and financial institutions for KYB verification, director validation, and audit-ready compliance. It suits organisations with dedicated compliance teams needing deep cross-border corporate data.
- Company
- Bureau van Dijk (Moody's Analytics)
- Category
- KYB and company data
- Strongest in
- Global company data and UBO analysis
- Best fit
- Enterprise KYB and beneficial owner verification
Where it is strongest
Key strengths
What Bureau van Dijk does well.
Deep global company data
Orbis offers structured company hierarchies and ownership chains across 200 or more jurisdictions.
UBO analysis
Community reports regard it as a strong source for ultimate beneficial owner analysis and director validation.
Audit-ready records
It provides official-record data suited to banks, auditors, and compliance teams that need defensible sourcing.
Who it suits
Best for
Where Bureau van Dijk fits, and what to plan for.
Honest notes on the trade-offs, each with a way to cover the gap inside a Zenoo flow.
- Large enterprises needing comprehensive global company data and UBO analysis
- Banks and financial institutions requiring audit-ready compliance data
- Integration effort. Some reports describe the API integration as technically involved. Activating through Zenoo means our team builds and maintains the connector, so your engineers do not carry that work.
- Coverage of minority stakes. Some reports note that ownership datasets can exclude minority stakes or entities with missing fields. In a Zenoo flow you can pair it with a second corporate data source to fill gaps.
Open the customer's case
What your team sees
The Bureau van Dijk result, beside everything else.
The result sits with screening and review on one case, so nobody checks a second tool to see the whole customer.
Hands it to your team
Verification is the first step. Compliance Hub handles the rest.
Once a customer is verified, screening and review happen in Compliance Hub. A possible PEP match lands in your team inbox with the evidence and the full history beside it. Zenoo suggests, your team decides.
Pairs well with
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Tomorrow, your case
Bring us a case that went wrong.
We will run it through Zenoo while you watch: the evidence, the decision, and the record your MLRO would want to defend.
30 minutes. Your data. No slides.