Risk management.

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Standard & Poor's Corp., in partnership with Dun & Bradstreet and Telekurs Financial, has enhanced the Security to Entity CrossWalk, a fully automated service that was launched last year as a response to Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II and the U.S. Patriot Act.

The enhanced service addresses compliance issues by cross-referencing securities and highlighting conflicts of interest relative to holdings, potential holdings or client interrelationships. With the additional information, a compliance officer now has access to over five million securities identifiers, including CUSIP and ISIN identification numbers, resulting in a complete view of total risk and opportunity across related businesses.

"With every corporate fraud that comes to light, the need to understand security, entity and compliance risk becomes that...