Creditreform (Balance Sheet Database/Bilanzdatenbank DAFNE)
| Name of Product/Service | Creditreform (Balance Sheet Database/Bilanzdatenbank DAFNE) |
| Company Name | Creditreform |
| Company Location | Neuss, Germany |
| Company Website | http://www.creditreform.de |
| Product/Service Website | http://www.creditreform.de/Deutsch/Creditreform/FAQ/Firmen-_und_Personendaten/DAFNE_Bilanzdatenbank/index.jsp |
| Status | Commercial |
| PSI Sector | Companies and Finance |
| Main Source of PSI Re-used | Balance sheets of public company registers |
| Value Added to PSI | DAFNE re-use balance sheets and basic data entries from the public company registers of Austria and Germany (in total approx 20,000 copmanies) and packages it with a wide range of data collected by Creditreform itself. The companies and shareholders get referenced and classified several times (NACE1, US-SIC, NAIS, ISIC). Furthermore, this data is aggregated with various sources taken from Reuters and Bureau van Dijk (e.g. stock exchange, financial news, mergers and acquisitions). |
| Description of the Business and Role of PSI | Public information (balance sheets, company register) is key to the set up of this service. The standardised data format and interface offered by the public dataholders allows a regular data transfer to the private sector. |