CounterPartyLink

Records are built from public regulatory filings, stock exchange disclosures, national company registries, and direct submissions from entities themselves. The firm applies a reconciliation process to merge multiple source records into a single view of each entity, flagging conflicts for research staff review.

Its data is designed to assist with compliance under MiFID II in Europe, EMIR trade reporting, the Dodd-Frank Act in the United States, and other jurisdictions that mandate accurate counterparty identification. The platform links internal client identifiers to the Legal Entity Identifier standard maintained by the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation.

No. CounterPartyLink does not manage investment portfolios or third-party capital. It is a data vendor providing reference data subscriptions. The firm does not disclose assets under management in the investment sense; its revenue model is based on data licensing fees.

The firm competes on the completeness of its legal-entity hierarchy mapping and the auditability of its data lineage. Rather than bundling reference data with multiple other services, it focuses narrowly on counterparty identification and ownership linkage, which can reduce reconciliation effort for clients operating multiple downstream systems.