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Most vendor records start life as a name and a website. Corporate Registrations answers the question that sits underneath every other piece of diligence. Is there a real, currently registered company behind this, and is it the one we think it is? It runs automatically once a vendor has a website on file, and appears as the Registrations tab of a vendor’s Vendor Intelligence section.

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Where the data comes from

All sources are public. Companies House needs a free key, which Coverbase configures.

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Read the verdict first

The page leads with a match decision rather than with identifiers, because every identifier below it is only meaningful once you know they belong to this vendor.

Matched

A registered company was bound with high confidence. The identifiers can be relied on.

Needs review

Something plausible was found but not confirmed. Two companies sharing a trading name in one jurisdiction is the usual cause. Check the identifiers before using them.

No match

Nothing credible matched. Common for very small, very new, or non-corporate suppliers.
A match confidence accompanies the decision. Treat it as a measure of binding certainty, meaning how sure we are that these records describe your vendor. It says nothing about the company’s health. When no register holds the entity but the vendor names it on its own legal pages, the page shows that entity as Identified from the vendor’s own pages, with the quotes. When several registered companies share the vendor’s name, the page lists them as Possible matches for you to pick from. To fix a wrong or missing entity, use Correct with AI: describe the right entity in your own words, see the match, and apply it. Your correction is kept for every later refresh. See the Corporate registrations guide.

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What the page shows

LEI, company number, SEC CIK and DUNS. These are the registry keys that let you look the company up independently, anywhere else.
Whether the company is currently active, dissolved or inactive; its jurisdiction; incorporation date; whether it is publicly listed and under what ticker; and its industry classification.A dissolved status on a vendor you are actively paying is one of the highest-signal findings in the product. It usually means a restructure nobody told you about, or that you are contracting with an entity that no longer exists.
The registered and headquarters addresses on file with the registers. These frequently differ from the trading address a vendor gives you, which is normal and not itself a finding.
The vendor’s parents and subsidiaries, from GLEIF’s relationship records, Companies House’s corporate owners, and the entities the vendor names on its own pages. Each entity says whether a register holds it or only the vendor names it.
Every register checked and the identifier it returned, each linking back to the source record. Citations are listed per lookup rather than collapsed to one row per register, so it stays visible which fact rests on which record.
Caveats recorded while matching: why a candidate was rejected, or why two remain in contention.

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How it’s used elsewhere

Corporate registration data feeds:
  • Financial Health Score. Corporate standing is one of the scored pillars, and registry identifiers are how a vendor is resolved to filings in the first place.
  • Zero Touch Assessments. Registration validation can be included as a scored component of the composite.
  • The vendor fact sheet. The validated legal name and status appear in the company profile.
A missing registration record is not a red flag on its own. Sole traders, partnerships, and vendors in jurisdictions with no open registry data will legitimately return nothing. What matters is a record that comes back dissolved, or one that comes back describing a different company than the one you thought you were buying from.