Abstract: There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving data indicative of an environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) objective, and measurements of ESG components, (b) creating a set of N-grams for each ESG component, (c) searching a database, based on the set of N-grams, to obtain ESG data, and (d) generating an ESG score based on the ESG data. There is also provided a system that performs the method.

Abstract: An identification and assessment system that flags business entities that are current or future Third Party Intermediaries and provides compliance risk ratings In at least one embodiment, the system is configured for TPI identification to enable companies to optimize compliance efforts, for example, effective anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance. The system is configured to identify TPI likelihood and General Compliance Risk Rating to enable businesses to setup anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC) strategies to focus on those high-risk TPIs, perform due diligence, and mitigate compliance risk.

Abstract: An identification and assessment system that flags business entities that are current or future Third Party Intermediaries and provides compliance risk ratings In at least one embodiment, the system is configured for TPI identification to enable companies to optimize compliance efforts, for example, effective anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance. The system is configured to identify TPI likelihood and General Compliance Risk Rating to enable businesses to setup anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC) strategies to focus on those high-risk TPIs, perform due diligence, and mitigate compliance risk.

Abstract: A networking system for real-time generation of a global business ranking based upon country specific data retrieved from at least a plurality of countries, the system comprising: a plurality of country data collection systems, wherein the country specific data is collected from a plurality of country sources; a transformation engine which receives and categorizes the collected data into at least one selected from the group consisting of: country trade data, country financial data and country derogatory information; a data/attribute repository which merges the country trade data, country financial data and/or country derogatory information with data from a global database, macro score data and/or signal score data to form merged data, and sorts the merged data into at least one selected from the group consisting of: global trade data, global financials data and global derogatory information; and a global business ranking processor which retrieves any of the global trade data, global financials data and/or glo

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating graphical bar codes (i.e., images that contain inconspicuous graphical modulations that encode embedded information) by halftoning with embedded graphical encoding are described. In one aspect, a graphical bar code is generated by halftoning regions of an original image. The original image regions incorporate errors diffused among regions of the original image and computed based at least in part upon modulations in the graphical bar code corresponding to a graphical encoding of a message. In another aspect, a graphical bar code is decoded by generating a base image having halftone regions representative of an original image. Regions of the base image are compared probabilistically to a set of graphical code words to obtain a sequence of graphical code words corresponding to a graphical encoding of a message. The sequence of graphical code words is decoded to produce a decoded message.