Global Credibility Centre, Global Corporate Reference
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Multilateral cooperation

Work with GCR to make company records checkable across borders.

GCR is a free public service run by Global Credibility Centre (GCC), an independent think tank in London. It needs access to official company registers and funding to connect them. Funding comes from many sources and is disclosed, so that no single funder or government carries the work.

How GCR works, in four steps.

Read, check, seal, and anyone can check it. The government register always stays the source.

Four steps from official record to digital proof Step 1, read: GCR reads the record only from the government's official company register. Step 2, check: fixed rules in code check every field, with no guessing and no AI; if anything looks wrong nothing is published. Step 3, seal: GCR adds a digital seal and an independent date stamp; changing one letter breaks the seal. Step 4: anyone checks it in seconds, free, without an account, even offline. Like a tamper-proof seal on a jar. If the record changes, the old proof is cancelled and a new one issued; anyone can report a mistake. 1 Read GCR reads the company's record only from the government's official company register, never from other websites. 2 Check Fixed rules, written in code, check every field. No guessing and no artificial intelligence. If anything looks wrong, nothing is published. 3 Seal GCR adds a digital seal and an independent date stamp. Changing even one letter afterwards breaks the seal. 4 Anyone checks A buyer, bank or customs officer checks the seal in seconds, free, without an account, even offline. Like a tamper-proof seal on a jar A seal does not change what is in the jar. It shows who closed it and that nobody has opened it since. GCR's digital proof works the same way for a company's official record. When something changes GCR rechecks the register regularly. If the official record changes, the old proof is cancelled and a new one is issued. Anyone can report a mistake, and GCR then rechecks the register itself. The government register always stays the real source. GCR only makes its record easy to carry across borders and quick to check. Done by GCR What the world receives

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What we ask partners for.

  1. Access to national registers

    Help member states let GCR read their official company register, through open data or a direct connection. Only facts about companies, never about people. The register stays the owner and the source.

  2. Funding

    To connect each register and run the service. Every company covered gets the same free service.

  3. Expert review

    Of how GCR works, by your specialists. We ask for review, not endorsement.

  4. Use

    Of GCR checks in your own trade, procurement or customs projects, free.

Two roads to register access.

Each register agrees to GCR reading its records on its own terms, one register at a time.

  • Multilateral institutions

    Open the door with member states, and fund the work to connect each register.

  • Register associations

    Associations of registrars, starting with the Corporate Registers Forum, are where GCR plans to meet registrars directly.

What every partner keeps.

  • Every register

    It stays the owner and the official source of its data.

    It decides what GCR may read, and can stop at any time.

    When it issues its own credentials, GCR steps back for that register.

  • Every funder

    It cannot change any company’s credential, or how and where it is shown.

    It cannot change the rules, or choose which companies are covered.

    It can report a mistake only the same public way as anyone else.

    It receives no company data beyond what the public sees.

  • Everyone

    Every covered company gets the same free credential.

    Anyone can check a credential for free, without an account.

    Experts are asked for review, never for endorsement.

How funding works.

Who can fund
International organisations, development banks, foundations, NGOs and governments, all on the same terms.
Where it goes
To Global Credibility Centre, kept separate from any other business of its founders.
Disclosure
Every funder is named publicly, never with its share of the funding.
What it pays for
Connecting registers and running the free service. Funding never buys a change to a credential, a rule or the list of covered companies.

No partnership exists until it is signed. See where GCR stands now.

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Our multilateral deck explains the gap GCR fills, the UN frameworks it builds on and where it can add to existing programmes. We send it to institutions, funders and registers on request.

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