Interfax Information Services Group has been providing business and financial information for 30 years in Russia and CIS countries. Its product Spark is a system for professional analysis of markets and companies that provides data on over 13.5 million entities from official sources. Spark allows users to verify partners, search for affiliations, monitor company changes, and conduct risk assessments. It provides a wide range of information on companies including registration data, financial reporting, risk factors, and affiliations to help users with risk management, compliance, and research needs.

1. www.spark-interfax.ru
System for the professional analysis of
markets and companies

2. The Interfax Group
Interfax Information Services Group has been the leading provider of business and financial
information products and services essential for decision makers in politics and business for the past
30 years.
The product range includes general and political news, financial and business credit information,
industry analysis, market data, rating services and other business information solutions for risk,
compliance and credit management.
Interfax is a key provider of information from the territories of Russia and CIS, and has
the leading global companies, banks, financial market participants and investors, the
largest Russian and foreign media organizations, as well as government structures of
the world’s major economies amongst its subscribers.

3. The Interfax Group
INTERFAX CHOOSES THE LEADERS IN THE WORLD INFORMATION
BUSINESS AS PARTNERS
United Credit Bureau – Russia’s biggest credit
bureau, a joint venture between Interfax,
Sberbank and Experian.
Interfax D&B – a joint venture between Interfax and Dun&Bradstreet: -
information on 240 million companies from more than 200 countries.
Business Wire – jointly with Interfax,
created a convenient, comprehensible
and accessible commercial news service
that works with the world’s leading news
agencies.

4. Each month in Russia, some 35,000 companies are liquidated, nearly
1,000 go bankrupt, and around 100,000 arbitration court rulings
are made.
INTERFAX SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS
The biggest analytical system on
companies from Russia, Ukraine,
Kazakhstan and Belarus
Allows to verify partners, search for
affiliations, monitor company
changes, conduct analysis and risk
assessment
Solutions for anti-money
laundering/funding of terrorism
Full verification of clients in the sphere
of anti-money laundering/funding of
terrorism in keeping with Federal Law
No N115-F. Allows to check whether
counterparties have been sanctioned
(Equivalent to Russian Law of
07.08.2001 No 115-FZ is the United
Kingdom Bribery Act
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/20
10/23/contents)
Analytical system that
provides access to over
20,000 media sources from
Russia and former CIS states
Professional media monitoring
and assessment of the
information environment,
which allows to verify
reputational and business risks
Interfax Group Products

5. SPARK today:
 Information on all registered entities in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan
(over 13.5 mln)
 More than 13 mln Russian individual entrepreneurs
 Data from more than 40 official sources
 Present on the market for over 12 years
 All the necessary functions in one window
 Reliable data with regular updates
Risk management and
compliance services
Legal services Research divisions and
investment companies
SPARK can help
Economic security
professionals

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7. Some of our key sources
REGISTRATION DATA
Information about registration
of companies and individual
entrepreneurs
Federal Tax Service
Unified State Register of
Legal Entities, Unified State
Register of Individual
Entrepreneurs
Dun & Bradstreet
International corporation, all
companies in the world, their
affiliations, world's biggest register
Interfax Call Center
Contact details are updated by
our operators
REPORTING
Annual and quarterly
reporting by legal entities
Federal State Statistics Service
Classification codes, details of
companies and accounting
statements
Central Bank of Russia
Reporting by banks and
companies in the financial
sector
Corporate Information Disclosure
Center
Reporting, documents of issue of
securities, corporate events,
articles of incorporation
INFORMATION ABOUT ACTIVITY
Participation in tenders, audits,
staff recruitment
Federal Treasury
State contracts, register of mala
fide suppliers
Rospatent Federal Agency
Intangible assets and trademarks
SCAN
System of media monitoring and
analysis
RISK FACTORS
Bankruptcies, litigation,
ownership changes
Supreme Court of the Russian
Federation
Arbitration cases, claims,
tracking progress with a case
Single Federal Bankruptcies
Information Register
Announcements about bankruptcies,
sale of property, security
State Registration Bulletin
Announcements about the
reorganization and liquidation of
legal entities

8. Information available in SPARK
COMPANY CARD
REGISTRATION AND CONTACT DATA
COMPANY STRUCTURE: SHAREHOLDERS, SUBSIDIARIES,
COMPANY BRANCHES AND MANAGEMENT (INCLUDES HISTORY
OF CHANGES)
FINANCIAL REPORTING BY COMPANIES, BANKS, INSURANCE
COMPANIES, FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
SCORING ( DUE DILIGENCE, SOLVENCY AND CREDIT
RISK INDICES) RISK FACTORS
ARBITRATION COURT RULINGS
BANKRUPTCY DATA
CORPORATE EVENTS, STATE REGISTRATION BULLETIN
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS, DISQUALIFIED PERSONS, BLACK-LISTED PERSONS, DATES OF INSPECTIONS BY
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
PARTICIPATION IN STATE AND COMMERCIAL PROCUREMENT TENDERS
PATENTS, LICENSES, SECURITY, COMPANY VACANCIES, DOMAINS

9. Information available in SPARK
The quantity of data may differ according to the
company’s form of incorporation, size of
business and transparency.

10. SPARK capabilities
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
AFFILIATION MIND MAPS
SEARCH FOR HIDDEN AFFILIATIONS AND
ULTIMATE BENEFICIARIES
AUTOMATIC MONITORING OF ANY CHANGES
THAT MAY OCCUR WITH REGARDS TO A
COMPANY, INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEUR OR
PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL IN YOUR SPHERE OF
INTEREST
ANALYSIS OF USER LISTS AND PERSONAL
PORTFOLIOS (PORTFOLIO MANAGER)
PEER ANALYSIS TOOL FOR COMPANIES, BANKS
AND INSURANCE FIRMS
AND MUCH MORE

11. AFFILIATION MIND-MAPPING
SPARK capabilities
AFFILIATION BY GIVEN NAME, PATRONYMIC AND
SURNAME

12. ULTIMATE BENEFICIARIES
OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE
SPARK capabilities

13. MONITORING CHANGES WITHIN A COMPANY
SPARK capabilities
TRACK CHANGES FOR COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS

14. CHECK ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS
LITIGATION
SPARK capabilities
READY-MADE RATING SCORES

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16. Interfax Europe
Tel.: +44 (0)203 004 6200
Е-mail: spark@interfax.co.uk
Web: www.spark-interfax.ru
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