Map the Banks shows companies licensed to carry out financial activities all over the world.
In a global, corporate, connected world, companies are increasingly complex networks of legal entities that span multiple countries and jurisdictions. This is especially true for powerful global corporations, and for corporate structures used for criminal or anti-social purposes. Map the banks is partially built on Open Corporates data and uses scrapers in order to map the financial flows between countries, between financial actors (creditors, banks etc.) and shed light on the relationships of dependency. The platform questions: Which countries have the highest concentration of debt collection agencies? Which countries have the most financial services outsourced to them? Which banking networks are licenced to operate in the largest number of countries? Which non-banking corporate networks appear to operate the most like banks?