Russian Company Information and Business Research

Interfax SPARK is the most comprehensive Business Information tool in Russia and the CIS today. Interfax SPARK contains in-depth Company Information from across Russia & CIS. Available online 24 hours a day and updated daily, SPARK provides professionals with the unique facility to analyze, compare, link, benchmark companies, and to set up Company Monitoring.

Company Information

The biggest corporate database

Interfax SPARK encompasses information on all registered legal entities in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. This includes information supplied by the federal services, ministries and agencies, as well as from key media and other sources. The archives of some sources date back to 1992.

Key profile components include:

• the requisites of companies searched;
• registration information as filed with the registering authority and licenses;
• the company structure;
• owners;
• subsidiaries;
• the branch network and governing bodies;
• statistical reports and financial statements adapted for fundamental analysis;
• financial ratios and estimates, including sector ratios;
• information about audits;
• the financials of banks and insurance companies;
• point scores, including those related to credit risks;
• the description of the business researched;
• development plans;
• landmark events and announcements of upcoming corporate events;
• information about securities issues;
• the calendar of events for shares and bonds;
• stock market quotes;
• information about the registrar;
• recommendations from analysts;
• analytical reviews and comments;
• a database on bankruptcies and arbitration court awards;
• media reports and publicly available information;
• information about the company’s liabilities and participation in government tenders.

Company Research

Modern information technologies easily allow a thorough analysis of available information regarding your partners, potential partners or debtors. Such analyses may be used to evaluate just where such businesses stands while also forming an accurate picture of their current operations.

A tool for professionals

Unique capabilities for analysis

• tools for the snapshot and comprehensive evaluation of the financial status of companies;
• industries and regions;
• the possibility of tailoring methodologies for evaluation purposes, as well as the presentation of information in the system;
• credit risk analysis;
• the possibility to search for key manufacturers;
• search possibilities for consumers of commodities or services, as well as the identification of their market shares;
• company rankings of banks and insurers by various financial indicators and estimates;
• the ability to search for links between companies by their co-owners, executives or other affiliates;
• the possibility of visualizing all direct and indirect links;
• the evaluation of the company’s place in the industry and/or region and the possibility to make such comparison with similar companies.

Interfax SPARK aspires to provide answers to all such company queries. In order to keep abreast with the growing needs of our clients and expand the spectrum of potential users, new sources of information are systematically added to SPARK, and its functions are continually expanded. On this note, in 2009 alone the database almost doubled, and over the course of a year SPARK handles more than 10 million client queries.

• analytical divisions of holdings, banks and investment companies;
• security services;
• marketing services responsible for evaluating the market environment of their companies;
• analysts and services attempting to identify market potentials and find new fields of operations;
• logistical services and sales divisions;
• credit and limit units of banks;
• risk management services;
• insurance companies;
• consulting and audit companies;
• appraisers and court-appointed managers;
• news and monitoring agencies;
• the mass media;
• divisions of ministries and agencies responsible for monitoring companies in a specific industry or region;
• state services and both universities and colleges.

Company Monitoring

The best way to track your major risks with regard to companies is to monitor all new information about those companies. A list of companies can be added to a monitor list. The type of information to be monitored can be chosen and as Interfax SPARK receives new information, it immediately checks monitoring lists. If any changes have occurred in the information specified, the client will be notified by email.

Market Analysis

The “Analytics” section within Interfax SPARK provides access to six key macroeconomic statistics sections: consumer prices, producer prices, financial statistics, sector ratios, economic indicators and human resources. All data are provided on a monthly basis by Rosstat.

Interfax SPARK also offers a unique database of aggregated financial indicators of companies. It’s functionality is straightforward and convenient, affording easy access to aggregated corporate data in a selected region or sector for a designated period.

Interfax SPARK

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