Global Financials API Feature Introduction

Global Financials offers a standardized data capability on company financial data from the D&B Worldwide Network. Balance Sheet, Profit/Loss and key ratios are available on over 28 million entities and 88 million financial statements.

Our APIs allow our customer applications to Search and Query using a wide variety of options and retrieve the data and insight needed to power today’s complex analytical financial challenges.

Global Financials modern, secure architecture allows our customers to integrate consistent, rich financial data to a common standard, which makes subsequent International decisions and comparisons to be made with confidence.

The Global Financials APIs provides the ability to:

  • Authenticate users to use Global Financials API
  • Search Global Financial information of entities using the extensive D&B WWN data based on several search parameters

Authentication

D&B Global Financials API calls utilize access tokens, generated from a consumer key/secret combination, for authentication.

For details on generating an Access Token, please see the Authentication Guide page.

For getting consumer key/secret combination for trial run, please email to WWNHelp@DNB.com

A full search response contains the below sections: -

  • Identification
  • Standardized View
  • Local View

Depending upon the consumer key token created, the search results will either show a full response or a section of either standardized or local view.

Search

Search API enables the user to search global financial data of companies based on several search criteria’s which can be passed as input parameters in the API Request. These criteria’s can be basic filters such as country, city, industry code, Duns number or number of employees, or advanced criteria’s based on financial elements such as range of Total assets, sales or Profit.

For details on the Search API requests and responses, see the Search API Guide page.

Below are a few use cases for searching financial information of entities with different search criteria’s :-

  1. Search three countries (UK, Japan and France) with employees greater than 10000    View
  2. Search all wholesale industry companies of US market with total assets > 50 Million Euro    View
  3. Search all imported DUNS list and filter it based on companies sales > $5,000,000 (input currency should be USD)    View
  4. Quick Search a company named - "APPLETON"    View
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