Bureau van Dijk

Bureau van Dijk is a company information provider and a Moody's Analytics company. It collects and standardises data on companies around the world so that businesses can compare firms and make decisions. Its flagship database, Orbis, was formerly a Bureau van Dijk product and now sits within Moody's.

What Bureau van Dijk offers

• Orbis database: global data on private and listed companies, covering firmographics, financials, hierarchies, ownership, M&A activity and more.
• Corporate ownership structures: corporate trees that show who owns a business and its associates.
• Country-level databases: specialist databases for European countries, including AIDA, FAME, DIANE, MARKUS and ASTREE.
• Compliance and financial crime: company data for compliance and financial crime checks.
• Tax and transfer pricing: company data for tax and transfer pricing work.
• CRM enrichment: adding and cleaning company data in customer records, tailored for banks.

Customers and markets

Banks and other organisations that need comparable company data for business development and customer records.

Key facts

• Parent: Moody's Analytics
• Coverage: more than 635 million companies and entities, as of July 2026
• Data sources: more than 170 sources, standardised for comparison