What changed recently

Our biggest matching upgrade yet. Match & Enrich API v6 is built on a richer entity model and uses it to resolve companies more intelligently and transparently. - Better intelligence: it understands group structure, so it returns the right entity in a geography even when the name doesn't match, handles brands, and picks the most representative entity - Better explainability: every match comes with a plain-language explanation, a confidence score, and full transparency - Multiple candidates returned: up to five ranked results when meaningful ambiguity exists, instead of a single forced match It is built to be deterministic (same input, same answer), conservative (no confident wrong answers on weak evidence), and explainable (every result is traceable).

Affects Teams matching and enriching company records who want higher accuracy, group and brand awareness, and transparent, explainable results.

The new Veridion Agent in IBM watsonx Orchestrate lets you query Veridion's database of 100M+ companies in plain language, available in the [IBM Cloud catalog](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/veridion). It behaves like a business-data consultant rather than a raw API: ask about a company and it resolves the right legal entity, enriches it, and explains what matters. - Find any company from a name plus a website, address, phone, or registry ID - Rich firmographic profile: identity, headquarters and location count, contacts, social and app links, and the detected technology stack - Every major industry code in one place: NAICS, NACE, SIC, and ISIC, plus insurance and risk classifications - Interpreted insight, not just fields: it flags multi-sector business models, digital maturity, niche specializations, and geographic concentration, scaling from a quick lookup to a due-diligence brief - Built on the Match & Enrich API; needs a Veridion API key

Affects Teams that want to look up, enrich, and understand companies conversationally inside their watsonx Orchestrate workflows.

Employee counts are now modeled for every location and the company as a whole at the same time, instead of one location at a time, so the numbers add up more sensibly across a company's sites. - Each modeled count comes with a short explanation of the signals behind it: industry and scale, building size and occupancy, neighbouring businesses, customer reviews, and the company's official digital presence - Applies where the count is modeled; counts taken directly from official disclosures remain unchanged

Affects Teams using employee counts for market sizing, site-level analysis, or risk assessment, who want consistent figures across a company's locations and a clear rationale for each modeled count.

Veridion's website classification has been significantly upgraded with refined website roles. Building on the existing domain checks that already confirm whether a site is live and broadly who owns it, each site is now classified far more precisely by what it is for (commerce, content, or an institutional site) and who operates it (a company, sole proprietor, government, educational, or nonprofit), sharpening the line between real operating businesses and parked, personal, or other non-business domains.

Affects Teams that use website and digital-presence signals to discover and verify companies, filter to genuine businesses, and understand what a site is for and who operates it.

Company coverage is now resolved location by location, one record for each operating site rather than one per parent company. - Spans more than 233 million business locations worldwide - A multi-branch company appears once for each place it operates - Powered by a new generation of proprietary large language models

Affects Teams that need granular, location-level coverage of companies, each branch or site as its own record, for discovery, footprint mapping, and site-level analytics.

Veridion's ownership graph has taken a major step up in scale and depth: it now builds corporate groups and traces the ultimate parent behind a company across far more of the universe, reaching even deeply nested subsidiaries and small companies, not just large, well-known groups. Each link is labelled by relationship (subsidiary, affiliate, joint venture, and so on). Most companies are independent, and the capability pinpoints the minority that roll up to a larger group, including roughly four in ten of the most prominent companies.

Affects KYC and UBO, supply-chain risk, M&A due diligence, and procurement teams that need to trace a company to its ultimate corporate parent.

Each company location now carries its own website, legal name, contacts, and registration, tied to the business that actually operates that site rather than its parent. - Produced by a new generation of proprietary large language models - Coverage has improved steadily through 2026 - Strongest across Europe and the US

Affects Credit-risk, KYC/compliance, and location-intelligence teams that need the correct legal entity, registration ID, and operator website for each individual site, not just the parent company.

Veridion's ESG scoring now extends to whole countries, scoring each sovereign on the same Environmental, Social, and Governance framework used for companies. - An overall ESG score, plus separate E, S, and G scores - Detailed scores across 26 risk areas, each with a written justification - Weighted toward real actions and outcomes over stated intentions - Delivered as a batch dataset

Affects Sustainable finance, risk, and compliance teams that need comparable, transparent ESG scores at the country level.

Added more than 12 million legal entity records from official legal registries in Russia, establishing broad authoritative coverage of a market where official-registry data was previously thin.

Affects Procurement, risk, and supplier sourcing teams with exposure to the Russian market.

Company classification has moved from a single industry code to a richer, multi-sector view of up to ten lines of business, each carrying a share of how much of the company's actual operations that activity represents, so you see not just what a company does but how its business splits. - Matching codes across NAICS, ISIC, NACE, UK SIC, and GICS - For example, 3M shows as roughly 35% adhesives, with abrasives, paints, and protective equipment around 15% each, and office supplies and other specialty chemicals around 10% each

Affects Teams in underwriting, procurement, and compliance that need the full activity mix of diversified companies, how that mix is weighted, and consistent codes across major classification systems.

In Search API v4, product filters now better understand what you are looking for. Before searching, the system samples the product landscape to learn how UNSPSC and NAICS codes are distributed for your query, so product and supplier searches return more relevant results, especially for broad queries.

Affects Teams using product search to discover suppliers.

Malaysian legal-registry coverage expanded to roughly 16,000 legal entity records from official registries, a near hundredfold increase that establishes meaningful authoritative coverage of the market.

Affects Procurement and risk teams sourcing or assessing suppliers in Malaysia.

Building data now combines two complementary sources to cover essentially every building worldwide. - Adds occupancy, number of floors, and architectural details such as roof and facade alongside the footprint - Height is the biggest gain, now available for about two thirds of all buildings

Affects Teams using building and asset data for property risk, underwriting, and site analysis.

Location types now follow a new structured taxonomy, replacing a flat list of two dozen broad categories with a three-level hierarchy of more than 150 clearly defined types, from high-level groups down to specific subtypes. - Each type has a plain definition and clear boundaries, so classifications are more precise and consistent - Added detail supports risk and underwriting use cases

Affects Teams that use location type to understand, segment, or assess what a business does at a given site.

Chilean legal-registry coverage expanded by 1.4 million legal entity records from official registries, a more than tenfold increase in authoritative coverage of the market.

Affects Procurement and risk teams sourcing or assessing suppliers in Chile.

In Match API v5, you can now match a company using just its official registry ID and location, even without a name. This makes legal matches more consistent: a company with the same registry ID at the same location resolves to the same legal entity, even when the name provided varies or is incomplete.

Affects Teams matching company records who rely on registry IDs and addresses, especially when names are missing or inconsistent.

Legal registry coverage in China expanded by 84 million legal entity records from official registries, the single largest legal-registry expansion to date, substantially deepening authoritative coverage of the market.

Affects Procurement, risk, and supplier sourcing teams operating in or sourcing from China.

Veridion's Business Attributes are now returned directly by the Match & Enrich and Search APIs. This LLM-built attribute set turns a company's unstructured data into a rich profile across six dimensions: - Business Model: a multi-label taxonomy (for example SaaS, Manufacturing, Marketplace, Franchising) - Target Markets: the industries and customer segments it serves - Core Offerings: its main products and activities - Technology, Certification, and Supply Chain Focus: the technologies it relies on, the certifications it holds, and how it sources and distributes Together they power richer profiling, sharper segmentation, and lead generation, and reveal hybrid operating models (for example SaaS plus consulting) that standard industry codes miss.

Affects Teams that profile, segment, or qualify companies and want structured business attributes returned directly from the API.

Canadian legal-registry coverage grew by roughly 1.6 million legal entity records from official federal and provincial registries, nearly doubling recent additions for the market.

Affects Procurement and risk teams sourcing or assessing suppliers in Canada.

Added close to 1 million legal entity records from an official legal registry in Poland, establishing broad authoritative coverage where official-registry data was previously minimal.

Affects Procurement and risk teams sourcing or assessing suppliers in Poland.