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UBO Registry

Verified UBO Registry Information for Transparent Business Insight

For over 15 years, we’ve built one of the most reliable datasets on company ownership and control. Our UBO Registry data identifies the people who ultimately own or control companies around the world, helping organizations meet compliance standards and reduce risk.

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  • Verified Global UBO Data

  • Built for Compliance

  • Easy Access and Integration

What is a UBO?

A UBO or Ultimate Beneficial Owner is the real person who ultimately owns or controls a company. This person may hold shares, voting rights, or other interests that give them significant influence. Our UBO Registry brings together verified ownership information from official sources so you can clearly see who stands behind a business and how entities are connected within complex ownership structures.

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Most UBO registers are only accessible through registered accountants or lawyers. Company Data makes this process faster, simpler and more affordable by giving you direct access to verified UBO information. Our registry saves you time and costs while helping you stay compliant and transparent.

Identify real company owners and prevent financial fraud

Meet AML and KYC compliance requirements in every country

Uncover hidden ownership layers and verify customer identities

Integrate verified UBO data into your compliance or onboarding systems

Build trust with transparent and continuously updated information

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See how accurate and transparent our Ultimate Beneficial Ownership data really is. Test a few UBO checks directly through our API or request a free sample of verified UBO records tailored to your target market or industry. Delivered securely in CSV format for easy review and integration.

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Our UBO Registry explained

Understanding Ultimate Beneficial Ownership data can be complex, especially with different rules, registries, and access levels across countries. To make things clear, we have gathered the most common questions about our UBO Registry and how CompanyData.com works with official ownership data worldwide.

No, CompanyData.com is not the official holder of any government UBO register. Each country manages its own official registry, usually through a local authority, chamber of commerce, or financial regulator. CompanyData.com connects to hundreds of these verified registries and financial databases worldwide. We unify and standardize the data, but the official ownership of each registry remains with the national authority.

No data provider has full global coverage of Ultimate Beneficial Owners. CompanyData.com offers one of the most comprehensive and automated UBO registries available, covering hundreds of millions of UBOs across nearly 200 countries and jurisdictions.However, in some cases, full UBO details can only be accessed through local accountants or lawyers who have permission to query restricted government systems. We provide the widest possible access through legal, verified, and automated data connections.

CompanyData.com connects directly to official government, financial, and company registries around the world. We collect verified ownership information, map corporate structures, and standardize fields across jurisdictions.Our verification process combines automated data validation with human quality checks to ensure every record is traceable to its original source.

Our UBO database is updated continuously as official registries publish new data. We synchronize changes to ownership structures, share percentages, and beneficial owner details in real time where possible.Update frequency differs by country, but on average our data is refreshed monthly to ensure accuracy for compliance and due diligence use.

Pricing depends on your use case. For API users, pricing is based on the number of UBO checks or verifications performed. For enterprise clients, we offer bulk pricing for access to our global registry, which contains hundreds of millions of UBO records.Contact us for a tailored quote based on your volume and integration needs.

You can access UBO data through API or automated bulk downloads. The API allows seamless integration of ownership verification into your onboarding or compliance workflows. Bulk datasets are designed for large-scale screening, analytics, artificial intelligence, software enrichment, and due diligence projects.We do not provide small Excel files with UBO data, as our solutions are optimized for enterprise-scale automation.

Yes. CompanyData.com provides a global view of company ownership and control across countries and jurisdictions. Our group linkage technology connects parent companies, subsidiaries, and beneficial owners into one structure, allowing you to trace corporate relationships worldwide.This gives you insight into complex international ownership chains that often span multiple countries.

Organizations use CompanyData.com’s UBO Registry for Know Your Business (KYB) processes, compliance checks, client onboarding, and fraud prevention. It helps banks, law firms, fintechs, and government agencies identify the real people behind companies, manage financial risk, and meet AML and KYC regulations efficiently. CompanyData.com also provides data to KYB platforms, system integrators, and software providers to power their compliance and verification solutions.

How We Determine UBO's

CompanyData.com combines verified company and ownership records from official sources with our global group structure model. This makes it possible to identify, link, and interpret Ultimate Beneficial Ownership even when local registers provide only partial disclosure. We keep every interpretation transparent so you can see both verified and probable ownership information in one unified view.

Our Methodology

  • Verified Data: collected directly from national registries, chambers of commerce, and financial authorities.
  • Standardization: data is unified into one structure and linked to our global company graph for consistent analysis across countries and legal forms.
  • Interpretation: where official UBOs are not published, we use company type, shareholder structure, and management roles to identify the most probable owner or controlling person.
  • Transparency: each record includes a confidence level, so you know whether the UBO is verified, probable, or unknown.

How We Interpret Different Company Types

  • Sole Proprietorships: the registered owner is the same as the business, so the UBO is confirmed.
  • Private Companies without Holdings (e.g. single BVs): if the director and shareholder are the same person and no parent company is present, we classify this person as a probable UBO with high confidence.
  • Private Companies with Holdings: if shares are owned by another company, we trace the chain upward until a natural person is found or the trail ends in a private or foreign entity.
  • Listed or Complex Structures: for large or public companies, ownership is often distributed and not linked to a single individual, so we show corporate ownership only.

Why This Approach Matters

Finding UBOs manually can be time-consuming and costly — especially when ownership data is scattered across hundreds of national registers.
Our structured model automates this process, allowing compliance and risk teams to screen companies and potential UBOs at scale with consistent logic and verified data.

Instead of checking each registry one by one, your team can access verified and probable ownership instantly through a single API or bulk file.
This automation shortens onboarding times, reduces compliance costs, and enables faster, data-driven decisions — without losing transparency or accuracy.

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How You Can Verify UBOs with Confidence

CompanyData.com gives you a clear, structured way to verify Ultimate Beneficial Owners and reveal the people behind every company. Our UBO Registry connects ownership and control data from hundreds of official registries into one easy-to-use source.

  • Verify Company Information

    Start by confirming the company’s legal identity through verified registration numbers, national IDs, VAT numbers, and official registry details.

  • Identify Ultimate Beneficial Owners

    Reveal the individuals who ultimately own or control the company. Understand  relationships between entities, and the structure of the corporate group

  • Automate UBO Checks

    Use our API or bulk data delivery to verify beneficial ownership at scale. Integrate UBO screening into your onboarding and compliance workflows for real-time due diligence.

Power Your Platform with the CompanyData.com UBO API

From fintech startups to global enterprise platforms, the CompanyData.com API delivers verified and structured company information where you need it most. Real-time access to official registry data, ownership structures, and UBO records allows you to integrate trust and compliance directly into your product.

Leading platforms such as Zen and Cellbunq use our API to verify companies, trace ownership, and screen beneficial owners in real time within their own systems.

Zen automates KYB checks at scale to onboard customers faster. Cellbunq enriches and screens clients using live registry data from verified global sources. Both rely on the CompanyData.com API to ensure every business interaction is transparent, accurate, and compliant.

With flexible endpoints, fast response times, and continuously updated data from official registries, the CompanyData.com API gives you the foundation to build reliable and scalable compliance solutions.

Access to the UBO registry

The CompanyData.com UBO API and bulk delivery service are designed for compliance teams, developers, and data-driven organizations that verify Ultimate Beneficial Owners at scale.

Please share your use case and expected verification volume with our team. Access is provided only to qualified businesses that meet our data usage and compliance requirements.

  • Free two-week test period with up to 1,000 UBO checks and 100 exports
  • Bulk CSV files available for entire countries or jurisdictions
  • API setup requires developer access for integration
  • Only available to registered companies with an active business website
  • Full access is usage-based and priced by verification volume

 

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