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Global business compliance data
Practitioner guides to official company registries across 209 jurisdictions. Pricing, access, English UI, API availability, and FATF context. Written for KYC analysts, AML platforms, fund administrators, in-house counsel, and compliance officers.
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Where we cover
209 jurisdictions live
Click a highlighted country to read the registry guide. Coverage expands weekly.
ASEAN (11)
East Asia (8)
South Asia (8)
MENA (18)
Europe (56)
North America (2)
Latin America & Caribbean (39)
Africa (53)
Why this guide exists
Business data is fragmented. Every country has its own registry, its own format, its own pricing model. A buyer in Malaysia trying to verify a Singapore counterparty navigates three government portals, two commercial aggregators, and prices that range from free to USD 150 per record.
There is no single map.
This guide is that map. We document, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, what is available: the official registry, the local credit bureaus, the data scope, the pricing, the access constraints. Buyer-side. No paywall. Information only.
About
businessdataguide is a publication initiative by KG (Teh Kim Guan), a Malaysia-based ACMA/CGMA Product consultant. More at tehkimguan.com.