Datenna's FDI Intelligence Dashboard gives screening authorities a single, continuously updated view of Chinese capital flows, tracked in near real time, enriched with ownership analysis, and risk-scored across state influence, defence connection, and critical technology dimensions.
Official FDI data arrives months after transactions close. Chinese capital routes through Hong Kong vehicles, Singapore intermediaries, and European holding companies, obscuring its true origin. And transaction data without risk context tells a screening authority almost nothing. Datenna was built to solve all three problems in one place.
Screening decisions get challenged. Investors push back. Lawyers get involved. That's why Datenna built a purpose-specific FDI intelligence pipeline — from raw news ingestion to risk-scored dashboard, where every data point traces back to verifiable, independent sources.
Book a DemoBaseline FDI data from national statistical agencies, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, and academic institutions like AEI's China Global Investment Tracker. Establishes foundational coverage of known investment flows.
Screening of 250,000+ publishers across 150 languages via Opoint partnership. Investment-related articles are extracted into a structured data stream — catching transactions the day they're announced rather than months later in official statistics. Both inbound and outbound Chinese FDI, tracked globally.
Named entity recognition extracts organisations from raw text. Datenna's matching engine resolves them against 50M+ Chinese company records with transliteration handling and contextual disambiguation. When a match is found, the full Datenna profile is appended, including ownership structure, UBO classification, state affiliation, and risk labels. Non-Chinese entities are enriched via a global company data provider.
Full Datenna corporate profile appended — ownership, UBO, state affiliation, DEF/CT labels.
Entity enriched via a global company data provider, covering registered location, industry classification, and shareholder data.
News reports announce intentions. Corporate registries, annual reports, and stock exchange filings confirm reality. The enrichment pipeline cross-references announced transactions against financial records to flag deals that were never completed — eliminating phantom transactions from the intelligence picture.
Each Chinese entity is independently assessed across three proprietary risk dimensions. An entity can carry multiple risk labels simultaneously.
Total government ownership stake, strategic investor status, state control indicators
7 independent indicators including military shareholders, PLA procurement, defence personnel
Patent analysis mapped to 18 White House CET categories
A single-screen interface where screening analysts can filter across 17 fields, including investor name, registered location, industry, risk labels, deal value, deal type, and more. Summary cards, visual charts, and data tables update in real time. Built for the analysts who need to brief upward with evidence, not just flags.
You are working from 50M+ Chinese company records, built from original Chinese-language sources collected independently over seven years. No reliance on Chinese data providers. No outbound traffic to China. Not replicable by a team that decided China mattered last quarter.
Multi-layer ownership analysis through Hong Kong vehicles, provincial intermediaries, and central state entities. Datenna's UBO framework classifies state influence levels, not just whether the government is a shareholder, but what the total stake and strategic intent actually are.
65,000+ Chinese outbound investments already mapped. Near real-time news monitoring across 250,000+ publishers in 150 languages catches new transactions as they're announced. Both inbound and outbound flows. You see the transaction when it's announced, not when it appears in a quarterly report.
Seven independent defence risk indicators: military shareholder connections, PLA procurement contracts, dual-use patents, and defence university personnel affiliations, each verified independently against Datenna's proprietary datasets. A clean company registration means nothing if the board includes PLA-linked personnel.
Automated identification of entities involved in all 18 White House Critical and Emerging Technology categories, from quantum and AI to biotech and advanced manufacturing. Derived from patent analysis, not industry codes. An entity's industry code tells you what they say they do. Their patent portfolio tells you what they're actually building.
Ownership changes, new sanctions designations, structural reorganisations, personnel moves. Entities are re-assessed as data changes, with weekly enrichment cycles and daily news updates ensuring your risk picture stays current. A transaction you approved six months ago may look very different today.
