Meet your compliance and audit requirements. Thomson Reuters DataScope Legal Entity Data provides comprehensive, auditable, fully maintained business entity data. With key data attributes on business entities from over 150 countries, it also has fully integrated, automated, new entity request functionality to fully support account on-boarding and periodic re-papering.
With Thomson Reuters DataScope Legal Entity Data, you can:
- Support regulatory processes and compliance obligations including the EU Anti-money Laundering Directive, UK Financial Services & Markets Act, Patriot Act, UCITS III, Basel II, and sanction list monitoring
- Feed your credit and risk management reporting
- Manage counterparty classifications
- Cross-reference and link market-level instrument pricing and reference data to individual issuing entities, through the actively maintained linkage between Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) and Reuters DataScope Counterparty Identifier, the RCP ID.
Why choose Thomson Reuters DataScope Legal Entity Data?
- Reduce the regulatory burden of counterparty and compliance data
- Save time and costs: We source and maintain counterparty data for you
- Ease of integration: Cross-reference market security identifiers to their associated RIC codes, and from these RICs link to an issue, issuer or legal entity hierarchy. This will allow you to integrate our data easily into your operations and workflow, and generate timely, accurate credit and risk management information.
- The technology to deliver: Content can be delivered directly to your desktop through a browser-based data extraction and management system.
- Continuous service enhancements: We are fully committed to developing the service in direct response to demands from our customers for more data coverage
- Regulatory processes and obligations – including the EU Anti-money Laundering Directive, UK Financial Services & Markets Act, Patriot Act, UCITS III, Basel II, and sanction list monitoring
- Credit and risk management reporting and monitoring
- Counterparty classifications
- Key data attributes on business entities from over 150 countries - including:
- Public companies
- Private companies
- Funds and fund managers
- Public sector organisations
- Fully integrated, automated new entity request functionality, so counterparty records may be added to the service as required.
Flexible delivery options
- Portfolio browser based application – Comprehensive portfolio pricing in the convenience of your browser. No additional hardware or software necessary. Portfolios can be downloaded via the browser or FTP and easily integrated into your internal systems.
- Easy access straight from the Internet – FTP flat files are provided with clear header records over a secure network. Files are released globally as each local market closes, providing full updates to all trading activity for that day.
The service supports a number of data attributes including:
| Reuters Counterparty ID (RCP ID) | Company Number | Parent Official Name |
| Legal Name | Jurisdiction of Incorporation | Shareholder Entity Name * |
| Trading Name(s) | Country of Incorporation | Shareholder Percent Held * |
| Counterparty Type | FATF Jurisdiction | Shareholder ISO Country |
| Counterparty Sub-Type | NAICS Sector Codes ~ | Ultimate Parent Official Name |
| Sanctions List Status # | SIC Sector Codes ~ | RICs for Related Issues |
| Legal/Regulatory Enforcement List Status # | Primary Regulator | Reuters Exchange Code |
| Registered Address | Primary Regulator ID | Exchange Name |
| Headquarters / Principal Trading Address | CIK Code | Ticker Code |
| Entity URL | Tax ID Type | Fund Name(s) |
| Country of Domicile | Tax File ID | Fund Manager |
| Date of Incorporation |
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| * Data integrated from FactSet | ||
| ~ Data integrated from Reuters Knowledge | ||
| # Data provided by Complinet | ||
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