How our Asian corporate registry and regulatory data fuels Snowflake Intelligence and secure, automated risk workflows.
By Ivan Seah, Chief Commercial Officer
In the era of agentic AI, the ability to “talk to your data” is only as powerful as the data you are talking to. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Handshakes is joining the Snowflake Intelligence ecosystem as a key data partner.
This collaboration marks a significant milestone in how enterprises access and utilise corporate intelligence. By integrating Handshakes’ Asian corporate registry and regulatory data directly into Snowflake Intelligence, we are enabling businesses to automate complex workflows—from Know Your Business (KYB) checks to strategic customer prospecting—with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
The Semantic Foundation for Enterprise AI
AI agents are excellent at processing information, but they require a structured, verified semantic layer to ensure accurate reasoning and prevent hallucination. This is particularly true when dealing with the complexity of cross-border financial and regulatory data.
That is where Handshakes come in.
Handshakes is unique in its ability to provide bulk, highly structured corporate registry data across the diverse and complex markets of Asia. By making our data available in Snowflake Intelligence, we ensure that every insight generated by your AI applications is backed by official sources, without the need to move or copy data.
1. Unrivaled Regional Coverage: Fueling Snowflake Intelligence
We provide deep, reliable access to corporate registry data across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. This highly structured, relationship-rich data—essentially a Structured Knowledge Graph of Asian corporate entities—serves as the definitive input for the Snowflake Intelligence platform’s reasoning capabilities, maximising its ability to perform complex, multi-hop queries on critical business questions. Our data covers granular points like Legal Beneficial Ownership Structures (LBOs), Directorships & Management, and hard-to-find Financial data.
2. Bridging the ASEAN SME Data Gap
The SME sector in ASEAN is a massive growth engine, yet often remains opaque due to limited public data disclosure. Handshakes’ direct-from-source data cuts through this ambiguity, providing the verified organisational and financial status required for effective engagement. Our data formalises the market, enabling trusted transactions and accurate credit assessments for this vital economic segment.
3. The RED List: Integrated Risk Flags
Our proprietary RED (Regulatory, Enforcement, and Disciplinary) List aggregates critical risk data. Integrated directly into the Snowflake environment, this data is continuously available for real-time risk screening.
From Insight to Automated Action
By combining the reasoning power of Snowflake Intelligence with Handshakes’ trusted data, we are transforming workflows from simple queries into automated, compliant action loops.
Governance and Security First
A crucial aspect of this integration is security. Handshakes data is delivered natively through Snowflake, meaning the sensitive corporate registry and RED list information remains entirely within your secure Snowflake environment. This adheres to your existing Snowflake governance, security, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policies, guaranteeing that highly sensitive KYB data is handled securely and compliantly.
Real-World Intelligence: Handshakes Data in Action
1. Automated KYB, Due Diligence, and Compliance
Compliance teams can leverage Snowflake Intelligence, fueled by Handshakes’ verified corporate registry and RED List data, to instantaneously vet new counterparties. For instance, the platform can cross-reference LBOs and directors against regulatory actions in milliseconds. This enables the ultimate Insight to Action loop: if the platform flags a new vendor based on an adverse finding, the resultant workflow can automatically pause the onboarding process and notify the Compliance Officer, transforming a multi-day manual process into a secure, instantaneous operational response.
2. Strategic Customer Prospecting
Sales and business development teams can move beyond basic firmographics to conduct hyper-precise targeting. Using natural language, they can query Snowflake Intelligence: “Find high-growth manufacturing SMEs in Vietnam with over $5M in annual revenue and no regulatory breaches. “ Handshakes’ robust financial and status data ensures accuracy. The platform executes the query, verifies the data, and automatically pushes the verified list of high-potential prospects directly into the sales team’s CRM or prospecting platform, accelerating time-to-market.
3. Proactive Supply Chain Resilience
Procurement leaders need continuous, proactive monitoring. Snowflake Intelligence can run daily checks on all active vendors, using Handshakes data to monitor real-time changes in ownership, directorship, or financial health in the ASEAN and China markets. If a key supplier shows signs of financial distress or an ownership change that links back to a high-risk entity (flagged by the RED List), the platform triggers an automatic alert to the procurement team and suggests pre-vetted, compliant alternative vendors from the dataset, allowing for preemptive risk mitigation.
The Handshakes & Snowflake Advantage
In the evolving world of agentic AI, the power of the platform is defined by the quality of its data (knowledge). Handshakes provides the definitive corporate ground truth for Asia.
This partnership is about more than just data access; it’s about providing the structured semantic foundation that ensures your high-stakes decisions—whether for risk avoidance or aggressive market entry—are not just fast, but
