Where the data comes from
Public and regulatory records: federal regulator filings, federal program data, state registries, county and municipal records, securitised debt reporting, court dockets, firm and issuer disclosures, news and newswire, and industry directories. Every fact shows its source.
Sources and coverage lists the source families, how many records each supports, the rights position and the read dates. It deliberately does not publish the full feed roster.
From source to record
- Read: a filing or record is collected with its date.
- Normalise: names, amounts, dates and places are put into one form.
- Resolve: records that are the same institution or person are joined, on an identifier where there is one (CRD, CIK, EIN, LEI) and labelled a candidate where the match is on name alone.
- Connect: relationships and events are written between records, each with its source.
- Detect: signals and derived figures are computed and labelled as such.
Conflicting sources
Every figure shows the source and date it came from, so when two sources disagree you can see which one you are reading. What a firm says about itself (stated) and what filings and deals show it doing (observed) are kept apart for the same reason.
Related
- Why information is missingAbsence of information is not absence of activity. DFX shows what public records show; a firm that has not filed, a deal that was not announced, or a field a regulator does not collect will not appear. Masked names are a plan limit, not missing data.
- Confidence, evidence and scoresDFX states how it knows each thing rather than hiding it in one number: an evidence tier, a match basis, and a stated breakdown for any score. A candidate or inference is labelled as one.
- Reporting incorrect informationUse Report incorrect data (or Correct this record on an independent sponsor record). Say which record, what is wrong and, if you can, the source that shows the right value. A person checks it; nothing is changed automatically.
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