Topic

Data

Company data, business registers, legal entity identity, provenance, and why databases disagree.

What this covers

International company data
Business registers
Legal entity identity, GLEIF and LEI
Data provenance, quality and freshness
Public versus commercial information infrastructure
Why databases disagree

Published under this topic

Why two company databases disagree about the same company
The disagreement is usually not an error in either source. It is a difference in what each one was built to record, and the gap between those two definitions is where most data quality work actually goes.
2026-08-12 Report · 2 min read · Sample