West Bengal govt ties up with D&B

Kolkata: The West Bengal government has entered into an arrangement with leading business research and analytics firm Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) for the MSME sector and exporters of the state. Under the arrangement, D&B will assign a unique nine-digit (D-U-N-S) number to a specific MSME firm or an exporter which will encompass various financial health indicators of the business entity, an official of the state government said. D-U-N-S, Data Universal Numbering System, capture firmographic data, corporate relationships and credit scores of a specific business entity.