What are S&P Global’s Cross Reference Services?

Cross Reference Services from S&P Global Market Intelligence help you connect disparate data to the S&P Global Market Intelligence company ID, enabling seamless data integration across all environments. This service allows for effortless linking of company, security, and industry data.

How do Cross Reference Services benefit my organization?

These services help you transform messy and siloed data into actionable insights by providing clean, validated, and linked data. This improves productivity and decision-making by ensuring data consistency and accuracy across your organization.

What is the role of Kensho Link in Cross Reference Services?

Kensho Link uses advanced machine learning to accurately map even messy and incomplete data without identifiers. This AI-powered entity linking technology enhances the accuracy and efficiency of data mapping.

Why is building a robust security and entity master file important?

A robust security and entity master file is crucial for managing complex datasets efficiently. It helps visualize corporate hierarchy structures, identify counterparty exposures, and maintain accurate records of corporate relationships and dependencies.

What are some common challenges in entity mapping?

Entity mapping can be challenging due to limited contextual information and frequent name similarities among entities. Traditional methods like fuzzy matching and rules-based mapping often struggle with these complexities.

How does AI-powered entity linking differ from traditional methods?

AI-powered entity linking considers both the submitted entity and its associated data, along with the content of the target database. This comprehensive approach provides more effective and accurate mapping compared to traditional methods that rely on semantic similarities.

What initiatives can Cross Reference Services support?

Cross Reference Services support various user initiatives such as CRM clean-up, platform integrations, and security master file enhancement. These services ensure that your data is accurately linked and easily accessible for all your business needs.

How long has S&P Global been developing these cross-reference services?

S&P Global has been meticulously developing and refining Cross Reference Services for over 30 years, ensuring they are robust and reliable for managing complex datasets.

Can Cross Reference Services help with visualizing corporate relationships?

Yes, the extensive linking capabilities of Cross Reference Services allow for the visualization of corporate hierarchy structures, providing a clear view of corporate relationships and dependencies.

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Seamlessly link your disparate global company, security, and industry data.

Connect and standardize disparate company, security, and industry data with Cross Reference Services. Organizations often manage multiple identifiers for the same entity across internal systems, vendors, and data sources, making it difficult to create a consistent view of customers, counterparties, securities, and corporate structures.

Cross Reference Services maps these identifiers to the S&P Capital IQ Company ID, creating a trusted source of truth and enabling data enrichment with corporate hierarchies, securities information, industry classifications, and other S&P Global content.

And, with Kensho Link’s advanced AI, even messy or incomplete records can be matched with precision, reducing manual effort and improving data quality..

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Kensho Link | Clean, Match, and Connect Messy Data

Kensho Link uses a multi-model AI approach to match messy, incomplete, or multilingual company records to the correct S&P Capital IQ Company ID. By analyzing company names alongside attributes such as city, country, address, aliases, and URL, it delivers high-confidence matches, confidence scores, and enriched company metadata to support faster validation and more accurate entity resolution.

Available through a drag-and-drop interface for bulk processing or a REST API for real-time integration, Kensho Link helps organizations automate entity matching at scale, reduce manual reconciliation, and create a more trusted, connected view of their data.

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Data is multiplying across more fragmented sources than ever. Without consistent identifiers, even basic questions like 'Who is this company?' and 'What does it own?' become difficult to answer.

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Can your systems recognize the same company across financial and CRM data?

Is your identifier mapping updated regularly and automatically?

Are your corporate hierarchies version-controlled and auditable?

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Cross Reference Services

Seamlessly link your disparate global company, security, and industry data.

Introducing the Next Evolution of Kensho Link

No more missed connections. Fragmented data is back on track.

GICRS now covers more than 100 million unique instruments

Entity, Industry and Global Instruments. Powerful linking capabilities.

Kensho Link | Clean, Match, and Connect Messy Data

The Hidden Architecture of Enterprise Data

Solving the Quiet Crisis of Disconnected Data

Cross Reference Web Lookup Tool

Browse all S&P Global datasets and solutions on the S&P Global Marketplace

Featured Content

Webinars

Case Study: A Large Bank Transforms Stale Payments Data into Vital Insight

Power your workflow with our extensive linking capabilities.

Like what you see? There’s more.

Frequently Asked Questions for S&P Global's Cross Reference Services

Request Follow Up

Seamlessly link your disparate global company, security, and industry data.

Introducing the Next Evolution of Kensho Link

No more missed connections. Fragmented data is back on track.

GICRS now covers more than 100 million unique instruments

Entity, Industry and Global Instruments. Powerful linking capabilities.

Business Relationships Utilize this dataset to map and understand the complex network of over 2M+ customer/supplier relationships, 594K strategic alliances, and 2.35M competitor relationships among global companies. Read More

Industry Sector Cross Reference Services (ISCRS) ISCRS connects company records to a wide range of industry classification systems, helping teams standardize sector mapping across datasets and workflows. Coverage includes GICS, ICB, ETF Style Classification, SIC, NAIC, NACE, and ANZIC. Learn more

Kensho Link | Clean, Match, and Connect Messy Data

The Hidden Architecture of Enterprise Data

Solving the Quiet Crisis of Disconnected Data

Cross Reference Web Lookup Tool

Browse all S&P Global datasets and solutions on the S&P Global Marketplace

Featured Content

Webinars

Case Study: A Large Bank Transforms Stale Payments Data into Vital Insight

Power your workflow with our extensive linking capabilities.

Like what you see? There’s more.

Frequently Asked Questions for S&P Global's Cross Reference Services

What is the role of Kensho Link in Cross Reference Services? Kensho Link uses advanced machine learning to accurately map even messy and incomplete data without identifiers. This AI-powered entity linking technology enhances the accuracy and efficiency of data mapping.

What are some common challenges in entity mapping? Entity mapping can be challenging due to limited contextual information and frequent name similarities among entities. Traditional methods like fuzzy matching and rules-based mapping often struggle with these complexities.

How long has S&P Global been developing these cross-reference services? S&P Global has been meticulously developing and refining Cross Reference Services for over 30 years, ensuring they are robust and reliable for managing complex datasets.

Can Cross Reference Services help with visualizing corporate relationships? Yes, the extensive linking capabilities of Cross Reference Services allow for the visualization of corporate hierarchy structures, providing a clear view of corporate relationships and dependencies.

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