RIME

What RIME does

RIME Information Bureau LTD is a private business intelligence provider founded in 1986 and headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. The company produces accredited Business Information Reports on companies located across the Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean region, supplying export credit agencies, credit insurance underwriters (Coface, Atradius, Allianz Trade, Sinosure, Ksure, Aman Union), banks, corporate entities, legal firms, and chambers of commerce. RIME's portfolio extends beyond credit reports into commercial registration data retrieval, site visits and address verification, due diligence investigations (background checks, KYC, litigation support, asset tracing, IP protection), and debt recovery services, with global coverage obtained through an international partner network for the International Business Report product line.

The company's operations are anchored on RONDAS, a proprietary in-house database system containing business information, commercial registration data, and due diligence records on MENA and Mediterranean companies. RONDAS supports API connections and company linkages, allowing enterprise clients to integrate RIME's data into their own underwriting and risk workflows. Report production combines automated processing — used to derive credit scores and risk indicators from combined business, statistical, and demographic data — with manual local-source intelligence gathered via on-the-ground investigators and site visits. A Database Search Portal is available for online ordering and fresh-investigation requests.

RIME monetises primarily through quote-based, multi-year enterprise contracts covering recurring business information subscriptions and customised due diligence professional services. The company is privately held by individuals with backgrounds in Market Research, AI, Data Science, and Media, with no external investors, parent company, or venture capital disclosed. Operations are conducted from a Cyprus headquarters and a regional office in Sharjah, UAE, with GDPR-compliant data handling supervised by the Cyprus Commissioner of Personal Data Protection.

Name

RIME

Legal name

RIME Information Bureau LTD

Website

https://rimeib.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

RIME Information Bureau LTD, founded in 1986 in Cyprus, provides business intelligence and credit-risk reports on companies in the Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean, serving credit insurers, banks, export credit agencies, and corporates via its proprietary RONDAS database.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Intelligence Services

NAICS

Credit Bureaus (561450), Activities Related to Credit Intermediation (5223), Investigation and Personal Background Check Services (561611)

SIC

Services-Consumer Credit Reporting, Collection Agencies (7320)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence Services (BPAHALAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Credit Bureaus & Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies (FSAKAKAA)

Keywords

• Business intelligence reports
• Due diligence investigations
• Credit risk assessments
• Commercial registration data
• Debt recovery services

Headquarters

HQ city

Nicosia

HQ country

Cyprus

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Business Information Reports: Revenue generated from providing business information reports on companies in MENA and Mediterranean regions. Reports include credit risk assessment, financial standing, and commercial activity verification.
2. Due Diligence Services: Customized due diligence investigations and research services for credit risk assessment and business intelligence purposes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

RIME Information Bureau produces and delivers accredited Business Information Reports and customized Due Diligence Investigations on companies operating in the Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean regions. It combines official commercial registration data, open-source intelligence, and local on-the-ground human intelligence to support credit risk assessment, counterparty verification, and debt recovery for credit insurers, export credit agencies, banks, and corporate clients. Reports are delivered through direct account management, an online database portal, and API connections, all powered by the company's proprietary RONDAS database.

Product overview

RIME Information Bureau LTD operates as a regional business intelligence provider offering a portfolio of interconnected products: Business Information Reports (accredited credit/risk reports with structured company profiles, ratings, and credit limits), International Business Reports sourced through global partners, Due Diligence Investigations covering background checks and compliance, Debt Recovery Services, and Site Visits & Address Verification. These services are underpinned by RONDAS, RIME's proprietary database system offering API connections and company data linkages. The company focuses on the Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean regions, combining automated processing with manual human intelligence for report production.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RONDAS: Proprietary High-End database system allowing for flexibility, API connections, and company linkages. Considered the most updated and relevant database in the regions RIME covers.

Products and services

• Business Information Reports Accredited commercial profile reports on companies in the Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean that include legal, operational, and financial profile data, a rating, and a recommended credit limit. Used by credit insurance underwriters and credit managers for background checks.
• International Business Reports Business information reports on companies located anywhere globally, sourced through RIME's worldwide partner network. Enables corporate information on counterparties outside RIME's MENA and Mediterranean production regions.
• Commercial Registration Data Provision of documentary evidence of company existence obtained through Commercial Registration Authorities, including trade licences, certificates of incorporation, articles of association, annual returns, director and shareholder lists, and financial accounts.
• Site Visits and Address Verification Physical site visits to company addresses within RIME's regions to confirm a company's existence, including photographs and location descriptions to verify and document business premises.
• Due Diligence Services Customized due diligence investigations combining background checks, reputational assessments, regulatory and KYC investigations, employment screening, litigation support, asset tracing, IP protection support, insurance claim verifications, and local media searches. Delivered through RIME's team and global network of trusted associates.
• Debt Recovery Services Debt collection services combining local MENA/Mediterranean knowledge with global coverage, including pre-legal recovery, legal recovery, case management, skip tracing, and recovery solutions tailored for SMEs and multinational companies.
• Database Search Portal Online portal for searching RIME's corporate database covering companies in the Middle East, North Africa, and Mediterranean, with the ability to request fresh investigations into companies not yet covered in the database.

Named customers10 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• SIMAH (Saudi Credit Bureau): Saudi Arabia's national credit bureau providing consumer and commercial credit information across the kingdom; competes regionally in RIME's largest Middle East market.
• Al Etihad Credit Bureau (AECB): UAE national credit bureau collecting consumer and commercial credit data within the UAE; competes with RIME for UAE underwriting data while being anchored to a single national market.

Direct peers

• Bureau van Dijk (Moody's): Moody's-owned provider of standardized cross-border company information (Orbis) used extensively by credit insurers and banks; directly comparable on multinational business reports and ownership linkages that overlap RIME's RONDAS.
• CRIF: Italian-headquartered business information and credit bureau group with global reporting including MENA; competes with RIME in credit-info reports and offers parallel debt-recovery, KYC, and commercial-registration services.
• Graydon: European business credit and marketing data provider offering company reports, scores, and monitoring; competes with RIME for European credit-insurance clients while also being a RIME partner/customer on international reports.
• Creditsafe: Global provider of business credit reports and monitoring covering 200M+ companies; competes head-to-head with RIME on international business reports and continuous monitoring, and targets the same credit-insurance and bank underwriter segments.
• Bisnode (D&B): European business information provider (now part of Dun & Bradstreet) delivering company reports and credit decisions; directly comparable on SME-focused company profiles across EMEA.

Broad incumbents

• Dun & Bradstreet: Largest global business information provider (WorldBase database); competes broadly with RIME on company profiles, credit scores, and supply-chain data while gradually expanding emerging-market coverage that could overlap RIME's MENA footprint.
• Coface: Global credit insurer that also operates a proprietary business information database; acts as both a major RIME customer and an adjacent competitor offering in-house trade-credit intelligence.

Emerging players

• Kompany (now Kyckr): RegTech platform for global KYC, AML, and ultimate-beneficial-owner lookups across registries; competes with RIME's due-diligence investigations through an API-first, technology-led model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/rime_ib
• Facebookfacebook.com/RimeInformationBureau
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rime-information-bureau-limited

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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