Global Database Financials
Up to 25 years of Company Financials
London-based Global Database expanded its registered company financials coverage, employing OCR and AI to ingest and digitize financial data from over 74 registries, tax authorities, courts, and government gazettes. Global Database displays up to twenty-five years of digitized financials via its online platform and credit reports.
“Every country has its own way of publishing financials. Some regulators use XBRL, some still rely on PDFs, and others post raw HTML on official sites. This makes global coverage incredibly fragmented,” explained Global Database CEO Nicolae Buldumac in a GZ Consulting exclusive. “Some annual reports run well over 100 pages, filled with complex tables — and yes, sometimes even handwritten sections. That’s where the combination of OCR, AI, and advanced parsing becomes critical.”
Processing varies by content type, with XBRL converted directly into clean JSON, PDFs digitized with OCR and large language models, and HTML filings parsed into structured data. The resulting financials are delivered in a unified schema, with “all outputs standardized and comparable.”
Global Database offers both Sales Intelligence and Credit Reporting services. The expanded financials deliver a “single, clean layer of structured financial data” for compliance checks (AML, credit risk, fraud monitoring), analytics and forecasting, CRM and product enrichment, and investment and procurement platforms.
Global Database covers over 250 million global companies. As Europe has the most extensive registration rules, financial coverage will be deepest for this region. European coverage includes
UK: ~4.5M reports per year (80% XBRL, 20% PDF)
Sweden: ~473k reports/year (XBRL)
Denmark ~344k reports/year (XBRL)
Germany ~523k reports/year (HTML, requiring advanced parsing)
Collecting US financial data remains difficult as most companies and industries simply need to file basic paperwork with the Secretary of State’s office in which they are incorporated (or operating as sole proprietorships or partnerships). Due to these limitations, Global Database only offers financials for 20,000 US firms.
“We are working towards having full coverage of all U.S. companies, across every state, by the end of the year. The U.S. remains one of the most challenging markets for registry data, as many states do not provide open access. In places like New Jersey, South Carolina, and Wisconsin, the only way to obtain this information is by purchasing it directly from state departments—a process that, when aggregated nationwide, becomes very costly.” Global Database CEO Nicolae Buldumac.
Financial information is available for 22.6 million companies, with full financial statements displayed for 5.5 million companies (26 million statements) and partial financials for 17.1 million companies (80 million statements).
Full financials “contain all essential financial information, providing complete and reliable coverage for company analysis,” explained Buldumac, while partial statements “contain only part of the essential financial information. However, we are continuously improving and working to convert as many of these reports as possible into full reports, providing more complete and reliable financial data coverage.”
While the vast majority of coverage is for global privates, Global Database has also collected public company financials for 80,000 quoted firms.
The resulting data collection process results in “a global, standardized dataset that makes financial intelligence faster, easier, and far more powerful than dealing with scattered raw filings,” stated Buldumac.
Along with financial values, users can screen on growth metrics (e.g., Revenue Growth, EBITDA change, Headcount Growth).
All of this financial content, and associated firmographics, is generally available via Global Database’s desktop service, data solutions, and credit reports.
Global Database has collected this global intelligence with a small team of twenty-one employees and plans to grow to 25 by Q1. The firm is based in the UK with operational offices in Moldova.
Additional Resources
Global Database: Website | Global Database Enrichment (AppExchange)
GZ Consulting Topics: Global Database | SalesTech | Prospecting | “Global Database Growth”
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