NEW YORK, NY — January 29, 2026 — WireScreen, the premier China-focused risk intelligence platform, today announced the launch of its Controlled Capital feature, a first-of-its-kind metric that quantifies how much capital a company or government entity truly controls across its full investment network. In the same release, the company also introduced SmartCard, a new high-signal user experience that surfaces Controlled Capital alongside key risk, ownership, and entity insights directly within the platform.
In today's global economy, and specifically within China’s complex business ecosystem, the true size and influence of a corporation are often obscured by deeply layered ownership structures. Major firms can control hundreds or even thousands of subsidiaries and investments held directly and indirectly across multiple layers, making traditional due diligence slow, fragmented, and difficult to scale.
WireScreen’s “Controlled Capital” feature solves this visibility gap by scanning, mapping, and analyzing a corporation’s entire universe of subsidiaries and investments. The platform traces these deep ownership linkages and calculates an aggregate total based on ownership stake and registered capital or market value. The result is a single, powerful metric that reflects the financial weight and influence of an entity across its full investment network.
“The WireScreen platform now delivers unparalleled insight into China’s business landscape and the global holdings of its companies,” said David Barboza, CEO of WireScreen. “With Controlled Capital, users can quickly understand and compare the true scale and influence of entities across industries and geographies.”
This industry-first capability represents a significant leap forward for due diligence, compliance, and investment analysis. By algorithmically aggregating data from deep within complex corporate ownership trees, WireScreen eliminates the need for users to manually navigate dozens of layers of ownership to understand a company’s holdings.
For example, China Mobile Communications Group, one of China’s largest mobile network operators, has 86 directly controlled subsidiaries and investments. But using WireScreen, we now know that it has over 100,000 entities under its umbrella and its controlled capital is measured at $635 billion, ranking it among the most powerful companies.
To ensure this insight is actionable at speed, WireScreen also launched SmartCard, a new summary view available on Company and Government Entity pages. SmartCard surfaces Controlled Capital alongside high-value firmographic data, investment insights, risk flags, and key people, allowing analysts to triage entities in seconds and dive deeper only when needed.
Together, Controlled Capital and SmartCard represent a major advance in how analysts and investigators assess risk, influence, and exposure across complex corporate networks.
About WireScreen
WireScreen is a leading China-focused risk intelligence platform dedicated to bringing transparency to global business. By combining advanced data technology with deep regional expertise, WireScreen helps professionals uncover hidden ownership, identify risk, and understand corporate influence at scale.
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