Gain Insight into Your Bondholders
Geopolitical issues and other macroeconomic developments can create large-scale movement of securities from one group of investors to another, making it critical to maintain visibility with your debt investors.
Bondholder Identification services help you gain an accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive understanding of the investors holding your fixed-income securities, including how much they hold and their investment motives.
Bondholder Identification leverages S&P Global's worldwide institutional contact network to thoroughly investigate depository positions and identify all constituencies, including institutional and retail.
Key Features
Comprehensive Insight
We collect beneficial owner data from banks, brokers and third-party intermediaries to identify, on average, 95% of an issuer’s principal amount outstanding.
Data Accuracy
Our proprietary, research-based approach goes beyond publicly available data to provide superior identification results to you and your team.
Unmatched Resources
With more than 20 years of experience in the bondholder identification business, we offer an extensive, proprietary investor database representing thousands of issuers.
Global Reach
We maintain offices around the world to support unparalleled knowledge of the international financial markets along with buy- and sell-side contacts.
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