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Wait - you mean the EU-driven requirement?

• ggm 1y ago
  Yes. It's totally bizarre that a formalised business identity is held in a commercial enterprise, not some kind of not for profit mutuality or a state enterprise. Who requires them to do it isn't the point, what Google decided is the formalism to meet EU requirements is the point. Here is a european collated list of worldwide business registries. The Australian one is a gov.au. the US one is the SEC not D&B https://ebra.be/worldwide-registers/?location=au https://ebra.be/worldwide-registers/?location=au
  • sib 1y ago
    The SEC is not a registry of all businesses in the US. The SEC concerns itself with business that sell shares to the public; this would not cover (for example) a single-member LLC that a software developer might use. In the US, businesses are chartered and registered by the states, not the Federal government. There is no Federal equivalent to the UK's Companies House.
    • ggm 1y ago
      Which in itself is quite bizarre. You are of course right about the SEC although private companies raising debt securities fall under its role.