CORE EXPERTISE

Private Markets

INDUSTRY

Capital Market

Use Cases

Unlock Deeper Private Company Insights for Smarter Investments

Private market investors require extensive, hard-to-source private company data, especially for startups and SMEs across Asia Pacific and emerging markets. Traditional platforms often lack sufficient coverage of these growth segments. Expanded private entity datasets strengthen investment research, market insight, and target identification, enabling informed deal origination and strategic diversification.

Workflows

Regional Private Company Coverage

Detailed corporate data across ASEAN and China, including ownership, directorship, financials, and history.

Startup and SME Data Access

Extending research beyond large corporates to uncover emerging growth opportunities.

Investment Screening & Targeting

Using datasets for pre-deal screening, opportunity assessment, and acquisition targeting.

Key personas

Portfolio Managers

Market Data Specialists

Compliance and Audit Team

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Interconnection Map

Mapping connections among shareholders and directors across local and ASEAN borders across multiple degrees of association.

Entity Profile Report

Detailed business report containing key company information, address, shareholders and past charges from official sources.

RED List Report

A quick and effective way to check for direct and indirect exposure to regulatory actions.

KYB Services

Identification & Verification (Upcoming)

Search and verify information of persons and companies against official sources.

Screening

Screen persons, companies and their connected parties against Politically-Exposed-Persons (PEP) / Sanctions list.

Corporate History (Upcoming)

Historical analysis of company records such as past ownership, business activity changes and more.

Corporate Network (Upcoming)

Network pattern analysis of extended connection of corporate relationships to identify potential risks.

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Custom Reports 

Based on client requirements, our XPERT services team can deliver custom reports featuring specific data points — such as historical charges, ownership details and other relevant data — on a list of target companies identified through Local Registration Numbers e.g. UEN number.

Alert Monitoring 

Get email alerts on leadership changes by adding counter-parties to your list. Available for Singapore data only. 

One World

For users who are subscribed to two or more datasets such as Corporate Registry in Singapore, Malaysia, Capital Markets and S&P Global Market Intelligence, the OneWorld Feature is automatically unlocked to display connections across these datasets for a comprehensive analysis of searched entities.

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