Xapien organisation reports include a fully interactive beneficial ownership graph - a navigable view of corporate structures embedded directly in the report. It lets you identify who ultimately controls an entity, even across layered ownership chains, in a single interaction.
This article walks you through what the graph shows, how to navigate it, how ownership percentages are calculated, and things to note.
❗️Please note:
The beneficial ownership graph only appears in organisation reports for customers with a BvD or Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) integration enabled.
If you're not sure whether your organisation has one of these enabled, please speak to Customer Success or customer support.
What you'll see in the graph
The graph is designed to make complex corporate structures legible at a glance, even for large groups. Key features include:
Clarity by design
Entities are visually distinct so you can interpret a structure without studying it. Companies, individuals, UBOs, and state-owned organisations are differentiated with flags, icons, and a structured hierarchy. Large, complex groups remain legible on a single screen.
Automatic UBO identification
Individuals with greater than 25% ownership are flagged in line with FATF and UK PSC thresholds, so the key control points surface immediately for KYC and compliance workflows.
Purpose-built navigation
Complex ownership structures become straightforward to explore:
Focus Mode - select individual components of the graph; the rest of the structure fades into the background so you can concentrate on a single chain or relationship
Zoom, pan, and fullscreen - move around large structures and expand the graph to use the full screen
Contextual side panel - summarises the selected entity's owners, subsidiaries, and sources
Materiality filtering
Apply ownership thresholds to hide immaterial holdings and reduce noise - useful when a parent group has a long tail of small holdings that aren't relevant to the analysis you're doing.
Source-linked relationships
Every relationship in the graph is tied to an underlying citation, so outputs are audit-ready and defensible for downstream use.
Included in PDF exports
PDF exports contain a structured ownership table so deliverables remain self-contained when shared outside the Xapien platform.
How ownership percentages are calculated
The ownership percentage shown for each relationship is taken directly from the underlying data provider (BvD or D&B). Providers do a lot of the calculation on their side, and not all of the contributing factors are exposed to Xapien.
Where Xapien does add value is in simplifying the structure for readability. Provider data sometimes contains redundant ownership links that describe the same relationship in two different ways. For example:
ABC Limited directly owns 50% of DEF Ltd
DEF Ltd directly owns 50% of XYZ Ltd
A third, redundant link saying ABC Limited indirectly owns 25% of XYZ Ltd
The third link doesn't tell you anything new - it's already implied by the first two - and it adds clutter to the graph. Xapien removes this kind of redundancy so the structure stays easy to interpret.
Things to note
Data sources - the graph is currently powered by BvD or D&B data only. Other corporate data sources contribute to the written report but don't yet populate the graph.
PDF export - PDF exports include a tabular view of the ownership structure rather than the visual graph. Improvements are planned for future product releases.