Control
Control determines who exercises control over entities through multiple mechanisms including ownership, voting rights, board composition, and contractual arrangements, recognizing both formal and de facto control. This use case addresses identifying indirect control through complex ownership chains, analyzing control through multiple mechanisms, tracking control changes over time, identifying ultimate beneficial owners through control structures, meeting regulatory requirements for control disclosure, and supporting risk assessment and corporate governance through comprehensive control analysis.
The Challenge¶
Organizations face challenges in control management:
- Control complexity — Control can be exercised through multiple mechanisms (ownership, voting, board, contracts)
- Indirect control — Identifying indirect control through complex ownership chains
- De facto control — Recognizing de facto control that may not be reflected in formal ownership
- Temporal changes — Control relationships change over time through transactions and reorganizations
- Regulatory requirements — Different jurisdictions have different definitions and requirements for control
- Beneficial ownership — Identifying ultimate beneficial owners through complex control structures
- Relationship tracking — Understanding control relationships across entity networks
- Compliance monitoring — Monitoring compliance with control-related regulations and requirements
Why EKG is Required¶
Enterprise Knowledge Graphs provide powerful control management capabilities:
- Control modeling — Model complex control structures and mechanisms
- Chain traversal — Traverse ownership and control chains to identify indirect and beneficial control
- Multi-mechanism analysis — Analyze control through ownership, voting, board, and contractual mechanisms
- Temporal tracking — Track control changes over time and maintain historical control records
- Network analysis — Understand control relationships across entity networks
- Regulatory integration — Link control structures to regulatory requirements and compliance obligations
- Beneficial ownership — Identify ultimate beneficial owners through control chain analysis
- Risk assessment — Assess control-related risks through relationship and network analysis
Business Value¶
- Regulatory compliance — Meet requirements for control disclosure and beneficial ownership identification
- Risk assessment — Assess risk based on control structures and relationships
- Corporate governance — Support corporate governance through control structure understanding
- Due diligence — Support due diligence through comprehensive control analysis
- Operational efficiency — Automate control analysis and reduce manual tracking
- Strategic insights — Understand control structures and relationships across entity portfolio