BIGregister
BIGregister is a centralized, open-access registry designed to catalog information about registered entities worldwide, including corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government bodies. It assigns a unique, persistent identifier to each entity and links to related records in national and international registries, enabling interoperability across administrative and research systems.
The registry collects metadata such as legal name, jurisdiction, registration number, status, date of incorporation or
Data sources include national business registries, sectoral registries, and supranational bodies. Data are harmonized through a
Access is provided through a RESTful API, a search portal, and bulk export options. Developers and organizations
BIGregister was proposed by an international consortium of government agencies, standard-setting bodies, and non-profit organizations in
Reception has been mixed. It is widely used by corporate compliance teams and researchers for transparency