Case Study: Global Financial Organization achieves unified, accurate entity resolution with Dun & Bradstreet

Global Financial Organization Executes Massive Data Overhaul to Drive Private Sector Growth in Developing Countries

A global financial institution that funds and supports private sector businesses in developing countries — with a mission to reduce poverty and boost local economies — faced a critical data challenge after shifting from project to corporate finance. Entity validation became essential, but ten siloed legacy systems contained unstandardized, duplicate and inaccurate records, leaving no single source of truth and undermining the organization’s ability to authenticate applicants and make confident investment decisions.

Dun & Bradstreet integrated D&B Direct web services into the organization’s Informatica platform and its entity management system to automate cleansing, match records to unique identifiers, enrich data, and provide real-time applicant verification via API (with manual investigations for unresolved entities). The consolidation into a single system yielded standardized, timely and accurate data, reduced operating costs, strengthened investment oversight and compliance, and delivered a reliable, precise entity resolution process.