Case Study: Dun & Bradstreet achieves accelerated compliance for complex company ownership checks with Neo4j

Dun & Bradstreet Chooses Neo4j to Accelerate Clients’ Compliance with Complex Company Ownership Checks

Dun & Bradstreet, a global leader in business data and analytics, faced a rising compliance challenge: new international "beneficial ownership" rules required firms to investigate historic company ownership links for money‑laundering and tax‑evasion checks. Those investigations tied up skilled staff for days or weeks, delaying new-business bookings and increasing costs for D&B’s clients.

D&B partnered with Neo4j to model ownership relationships as a graph and build a targeted API, delivering results in under three months. The Neo4j solution turned hours or days of manual research into millisecond queries, enabling D&B to launch the service in January 2017, drive profitable double‑digit customer growth, and open new opportunities in fraud detection and data services.

Dun & Bradstreet

Paul Westcott

Senior Product Manager