Audit & due-diligence serviceFounded 1909

Moody's Orbis

New York, NY, United States

Moody's markets the Orbis global company database, originally built by Bureau van Dijk, which aggregates ownership, financial, and entity-linkage data on hundreds of millions of companies for use in corporate due diligence, KYC/AML checks, and counterparty research.

Headquarters
New York, NY, United States
Founded
1909
Website
www.moodys.com/web/en/us/capabilities/company-reference-data/orbis.html

Notable facts

  • Orbis was Bureau van Dijk's flagship product; Bureau van Dijk was founded in 1991 and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium before Moody's acquired it for roughly EUR3 billion in a deal announced May 2017 and completed August 2017.
  • Moody's Corporation itself traces to John Moody's 1909 bond-rating publication business; founded_year here reflects Moody's Corporation, not Bureau van Dijk.

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