Cross Reference Services
Seamlessly link and integrate your global data with our Cross Reference Services
Connect all your disparate data to the S&P Global Market Intelligence company ID to make your data work seamlessly across all environments. Our cross-reference services empower you to effortlessly link your company, security, and industry data. And, with Kensho Link's advanced machine learning, even messy and incomplete data without identifiers can be mapped accurately.
Transform data chaos into actionable insights with our Cross Reference Services, providing you with clean, validated, and linked data.
Robust global cross reference data. Seamless integration.
Business Entity Cross Reference Services (BECRS) – Business Entity Linking
- Help improve operational efficiencies, mitigate risk, assist with client onboarding, and manage investment restriction guidelines.
- Easily link the standardized and proprietary IDs for over nine million entities to the primary key, the S&P Capital IQ Company ID.
- Gain insight on complex company relationships and corporate trees with automated linking capabilities.
- Link to entity identifiers such as LEI, S&P Ratings, CUSIP6, and more.
Industry Sector Cross Reference Services (ISCRS) – Industry Sector Linking
- Leverage extensive industry sector classification linking at the company level for:
- GICS®
- ICB Sector Classification (ICB)
- ETF Style Classification
- S&P Global Ratings Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
- North American Industry Classification System (NAIC)
- Nomenclature générale des activités économiques dans L'Union Européenne (NACE)
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZIC)
Global Instrument Cross Reference Services (GICRS) – Global Instrument Linking
- Access a deep database of global security identifiers cross-referencing over 57 million instruments for reliable linking capabilities.
- Streamline your operations and create customized data mapping systems for securities and trading items such as mutual funds, equity, municipals, commercials papers, bonds, indices, and floating rate notes.
- Keep up with the expanding markets and rapid growth of new securities by using this automated service to assist in the effort of linking securities to issuers.
- Link a security to its ISIN, CUSIP/ CINS, SEDOL, Bloomberg FIGI, Barra, Markit LoanX, and more.
Entity, Industry and Global Instruments. Powerful linking capabilities.
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Eliminate manual processes and enhance your workflow.
Save time with our extensive linked cross reference data and gain valuable perspectives on company relationships.
Case Study: A Large Bank Transforms Stale Payments Data into Vital Insight
Connected Data is More Valuable Data
Kensho Link is a machine learning service that maps entities in your database with unique ID numbers drawn from S&P Global’s world-class company database with precision and speed. Link uses an AI algorithm trained to return high quality links, even when the data inputs are incomplete or contain errors.
Once mapped to these unique IDs, a database becomes much more powerful. It is linked and cleaned, making data enrichment and deduplication seamless.
Whether you want to clean and organize your data or enrich it with S&P Global’s data, Kensho Link makes your data more valuable.
Power your workflow with our extensive linking capabilities.
Access essential intelligence and understand global trends.
A world of cross reference data at your fingertips.
Workflow | Capabilities |
|---|---|
Streamlined Linking | Link to a variety of company level data sets like Corporate Relationships and Company Fundamentals. |
Reporting | Help meet regulatory reporting requirements that require a specific classification system. |
Benchmarking | Pick and choose one or multiple classifications to perform company comparisons and peer analysis. |
Screening | Use multiple sector classifications to refine portfolios and sample sets. |
Analysis | Map regional and global classifications to measure exposure and assist in managing risk. |
Select Asset List | Capture majority owned subsidiaries of sanctioned entities including companies identified by the Office of Foreign Assets Control and European External Action Service, as it pertains to the Russia-Ukraine relationship. |
Lance Risi, Director of Cross Reference Services at S&P Global Market Intelligence, discusses the award win with Waters Technology.
- What the Business Entity Cross Reference Solution offers that similar offerings do not.
- The most common reference data-related problems and how S&P Global is helping to address those challenges.
- How the reference data service has been enhanced recently and the significant developments on the horizon.
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