Know who you are dealing with.

The world's company registers, the people who run and own those companies up to the ultimate beneficial owner, sanctions and watch lists, politically exposed persons, offshore leaks, the news and physical infrastructure, in one search.

Every fact shows the register, list or article it comes from.

Mercurium Data overview: companies, officers and owners, sanctions, PEPs, offshore leaks and news, and companies by country on a world map
Companies350M+
Officers, owners and investors300M+
Ownership links200M
News articles1B+
Sanctions, warnings, debarments1M+
Politically exposed persons800K

See Mercurium Data at work

What it holds, how one search finds it, and how every link is explained.

The same company, everywhere it appears

Mercurium links a company across the registers of every country it operates in, the global register of legal entities, its websites and its LinkedIn pages.

  • Confirmed by a company number, an LEI or a website
  • Suggestions show their reason, and a person confirms
  • Nothing is merged on a guess
An organisation in Mercurium Data with its registered companies, websites and LinkedIn pages, each confirmed or suggested

Who is connected to whom

Officers and directors, owners, the companies it owns, its executives, and the companies named with it in the news. A solid line is a link in the records, a dashed line a match by name only.

The network around a company: its administrators, owners, owned companies, executives and news co-mentions

Sanctions, watch lists and political exposure

Sanctions designations, export controls, procurement debarments and regulator warnings from countries around the world, with who listed them and when. Politically exposed persons (PEPs) come with their career, their family and their associates.

  • Every list in one place, sorted by what it means
  • Political careers retraced, position by position
  • Kept up to date as the lists change
All sanctions and warnings in Mercurium Data, with who listed each entry, the category, the country and the date

The news, every 15 minutes

Articles from around the world, read every 15 minutes, translated into English and linked to the companies and people they name.

  • Adverse media flagged by theme: fraud, corruption, sanctions
  • Where the news is, country by country
  • Over a billion articles to search
The news in Mercurium Data: articles per day, the adverse share, where the news is and the top themes

What they hold on the ground

Mines, oil and gas fields, platforms, pipelines, subsea cables and data centres, each tied to the company that runs or holds it. Ships and aircraft, with sanctioned vessels and their owners.

Infrastructure on the map: data centres, dams, oil and gas platforms, fields and pipelines, mines and undersea cables, with their operators
Ships and aircraft on the map, with sanctioned ships listed

Country by country, and the law

Every country's companies, officers and owners, what can be found there, and the laws that apply, article by article. Company registers from 280+ jurisdictions, including every US state.

The United Kingdom in Mercurium Data: companies, officers, beneficial owners and flagged companies
Coverage: company registers held country by country and state by state
Laws and regulations, article by article, with every version

What's inside

Every kind of data a check needs, joined around the companies and people it describes. New sources are added all the time.

Companies

350M+ companies in 280+ jurisdictions

The official company registers: name, number, status, legal form, address, activity and filings, including every US state.

National and state registers, and the global register of legal entities (LEI)

Officers, owners and investors

300M+ people and companies with a role

Directors, secretaries, partners, shareholders and investors, with their roles and their dates.

The same registers, and regulatory filings

Ownership

200M ownership links

Who owns what, followed step by step up to the ultimate beneficial owner.

Identifiers

70M+ identifiers

LEI, VAT, tax, stock and regulator numbers, so the same company is recognised in every source.

Sanctions, warnings and debarments

1M+ entries

Sanctions lists, regulator warnings and procurement debarments from countries around the world.

Politically exposed persons

800K people

Politicians and public officials, with their political careers retraced, their family and their associates.

Offshore leaks

1.5M+ entities and people

Companies, officers and intermediaries named in published offshore leak investigations.

News

1B+ articles

Collected every 15 minutes and linked to the companies and people they name. Adverse news is flagged.

Markets and filings

45K+ listed companies

Executives, insider trades, institutional holdings, regulatory filings and share prices.

Law

35K+ legal texts

Laws and regulations country by country, article by article, with every version.

Infrastructure and assets

What a company holds on the ground, on the map. Each asset is tied to the company that holds the licence or owns it, by its number in the company register wherever the regulator gives one.

Mining, energy, maritime and aviation regulators, and open geographic data

  • Mines
  • Oil and gas fields
  • Platforms
  • Pipelines
  • Subsea cables
  • Data centres
  • Ships
  • Aircraft

Who it's for

Anyone who needs to know who they are dealing with.

Compliance and onboarding

KYC and KYB on a new client: its directors and its beneficial owners, checked before you sign and kept under watch afterwards.

Banks

Know your customer and your customer's customers: ownership, sanctions screening and adverse media in one view.

Funds and fund administrators

Screen investors, portfolio companies and counterparties, and trace a fund group across registers.

Law firms

Identify clients and the other side, map a group's structure, and handle any regulated onboarding.

Analysts and investors

Due diligence on a company: who runs it, who owns it, what it holds and what is said about it.

Journalists and researchers

Follow companies and people across countries, registers and leaks.

Questions

What people ask before they use Mercurium Data.

What is Mercurium Data?

A global database of companies and the people behind them: official company registers from 280+ jurisdictions, their officers, owners and investors, ownership followed up to the ultimate beneficial owner, sanctions, regulator warnings and debarments, politically exposed persons, offshore leaks, the news and physical infrastructure, joined in one search.

Which countries does it cover?

Company registers from 280+ jurisdictions, including every US state, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Brazil, Australia and Japan. Sanctions, PEP lists, regulator warnings and the news cover every country.

Where does the data come from?

From official and published sources: national and state company registers, the global register of legal entities (LEI), sanctions and regulator lists, published offshore leak investigations, open news sources, and mining, energy, maritime and aviation regulators. Every record shows the source it comes from, with a link to open it there.

Can I find a company's ultimate beneficial owner (UBO)?

Yes. Ownership is followed step by step up to the ultimate beneficial owner, from beneficial-owner registers, shareholder filings and parent links in the LEI register, with each step's source.

Does it cover sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening?

Yes. Over a million sanctions, regulator warning and debarment entries, 800K politically exposed persons with their political careers, and over a billion news articles with adverse media flagged by theme. The background checks in Mercurium Analytics run on it.

How are records from different sources matched?

A link is confirmed by an identifier such as a company number, an LEI or a website, or suggested with its reason for a person to confirm. Nothing is merged on a guess.

How up to date is it?

Company registers and lists are refreshed on a schedule, and the news is collected every 15 minutes.

How do I get access?

Request access and we will set you up. Mercurium Data is also built into Mercurium Analytics, where every background check uses it.

The data behind Mercurium Analytics

Mercurium Data powers the background checks in Mercurium Analytics. A check searches every source, explains each finding and gives a clear recommendation; a person decides. The report opens in Mercurium Office, ready to edit and share.

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Know who you are dealing with.

350 million+ companies, the people behind them and everything said about them, in one search.