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.