Across the industry, investment managers are all searching the web for the same company information: their registered or legal addresses, their contact persons, maybe contact details such as phone numbers or email addresses, and even their website to check investor relations information.

The Global Company Database (GCD) was introduced so that customers no longer have to search and store this information locally, but can access a shared database of such information, which they can all contribute to and utilise the contributions of other customers.

It is powered by source data from the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), which includes all companies that have issued an LEI (currently over 2.2 million globally). It's possible to add companies that have not yet been issued an LEI. In addition to the GLEIF data, we've integrated ISINs into the GCD through an initiative by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), which provides a mapping of LEIs to ISINs for all countries that have registered with the project.

This data is enriched with specific investor relations fields for shareholding disclosure filing and forms, such as contact persons, email addresses, and company websites. Customers can request amendments to this data via the UI; thus, the data set is continuously growing and being updated.

The data is updated daily from ANNA and GLEIF, and our Regulatory team verifies any amendments customers request before being added to the GCD within a day. A complete history of amendments to the record can be viewed in the History tab of the GCD.

The GCD can be searched in the UI with the company name or LEI, and is also linked directly to your results via:

1) The LEI property in your positions file

2) The ISIN property in your positions file

3) The Issuer Name property in your positions file

Please read here for more information on how linking to the GCD from the results details view works.