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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Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified againstsource 1 · source 2 · source 3. Data as of 2026-07-14. See methodology. This profile describes Moody's Orbis as a company; it is not a verification, certification, or endorsement of Moody's Orbis's services by Vendor Proof Index.
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