Why Diligencia?
We encourage growth and support informed decision-making for businesses, large and small, in or with connections to the Middle East and Africa (MEA) by sourcing and curating hard-to-source, authentic data.
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Who we are
We are driven by a strong belief - clear business information will facilitate change and foster progress in the regions we serve. Our data does just that by delivering the clarity to support thousands of business decisions every day.
Diligencia is the leading provider of specialist corporate intelligence and due diligence solutions that enable clients to effectively manage their compliance obligations, market strategies and counterparty risks in the MEA region.
We source reliable and authoritative data from authentic sources and transform it into intelligent solutions to help deliver clarity, inform opinions and enable decision-making. With clients ranging from financial institutions, law firms, risk advisory organisations and multinational corporates, we offer invaluable insight into the relationships that underpin business activity in the region.
Our story
Since 2008 Diligencia has been providing trusted entity data and specialist corporate intelligence based exclusively on primary sources. What started as one man’s vision to bring clarity to doing business in the MEA region, and in so doing allow companies and economies in the region to grow, has become a team of more than 65 multi-lingual analysts, software developers and operations specialists across three offices on different continents.
Our commitment to help support your decision-making based on clear, unequivocal insight has been there since day one, and continues as strong to this day.
2008
Diligencia Consulting Ltd begins serving its clients from its new head office in Oxford, UK and its subsidiary Diligencia Data SARLAU in Tangier, Morocco.
2013
Diligencia releases Asterisk (an upgrade to its proprietary, back-end database and workflow platform) with a secure Cloud-based architecture.
2016
Diligencia launches ClarifiedBy, its flagship online due diligence platform.
Diligencia begins operations from its branch in Dubai.
2017
Diligencia expands its African coverage by adding 50 sub-Saharan jurisdictions to its portfolio.
2019
ClarifiedBy platform is upgraded to provide best in class legal entity data on the Middle East and Africa.
2020
Diligencia launches its compliance screening and monitoring service on ClarifiedBy.
2021
ClarifiedBy reaches a new milestone of 15 million legal entity profiles.
2022
Diligencia’s coverage expands to include Pakistan and Turkey as demand for our data and service grows.
2024
ClarifiedBy reaches a new milestone of 20 million legal entity profiles.
Our values
We believe access to accurate information promotes stable economies, which provide the bedrock for growth. According to OECD research, data access and sharing can help generate social and economic benefits worth between 0.1% and 1.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the case of public-sector data, and between 1% and 2.5% of GDP (in few studies up to 4% of GDP) when also including private-sector data.
We want the facts we present to help inform decisions, affirm relationships and ultimately support the economies we serve.
Our values sit at the heart of what we do and how we do it.
Authenticity
Our information is authentic because we only use original and official data sources to establish unequivocal facts. Our mission is to uncover fresh business intelligence every day and to develop ways we can make authentic information quicker and easier to access for everyone.
Tenacity
We work hard to access data, sometimes in markets where there is no central registry of company information or where data sets are scattered and so require meticulous indexing and analysis. Our company history and the ethos of our employees speak of tenacity, of persistence and the determination to provide our clients with the information they need.
Relationships
The relationships we have curated and mapped between the organisations and individuals on our database unlock the power of our information. Similarly, the relationships we have with our clients, our employees, our suppliers and our host governments are also key to our success.
The problem
we are solving
Diligencia exists because across MEA many of the corporate registries do not provide automated data feeds for their data.
Diligencia has invested hundreds of hours over 16 years to source, collect, curate and digitize corporate registry profiles from all the 74 corporate registries across the Middle East and Africa. This has resulted in, we believe, Diligencia owning the largest and most complete database of MEA company entity data with particular strength in ownership and directorship data.
We continue to invest in keeping our database up-to date - particularly important for information held on corporate registers which do not provide automated data feeds.
We do not source data from other service providers, all our data is obtained directly from authentic sources, and each profile can be traced back directly to its source.
Client testimonials
Our clients frequently tell us we identified information they were not able to obtain from other data providers:
Their ability to access resources in the Middle East is unparalleled in the market based on their experience and capability of their analysts. They have multiple analysts working across the region with strong knowledge and insight. I always get a response within the same day.
They have been able to handle complex matters with ease.
Diligencia work best in jurisdictions where there’s a lack of clarity and the firm will provide that clarity through their language, cultural skill and understanding.
We also go beyond simply gathering and curating data from public domain sources.
We are the humans behind the data, diligently connecting the dots to provide a comprehensive understanding of complex corporate landscapes. When public domain information is not enough, our expertise and investigative skills come into play, uncovering hidden connections, revealing insights and offering a nuanced perspective that automated systems might miss.
Our leadership
Nouri Bakkali
James Redfern
Saif Mohammad
Kahina Gasmi
Mina Mouhoub
Neil Jenkinson
Lorna Marsh
See what Diligencia can do for your business
Whether you want a subscription to ClarifiedBy, would like to receive our data via API, or need bespoke research into a company or individual in the Middle East or Africa, our team is ready to help.