How the Treasury’s Do Not Pay program uses OpenCorporates data to check a business is real before it pays it

On August 18, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury published a one-page notice in the Federal Register titled: Designation of Databases to the Do Not Pay Working System. It marks the moment OpenCorporates data has officially been integrated into the system the federal government uses to decide whether a business should be paid, closing a process opened two months earlier, on the 25th of June 2026, when the Treasury published its proposed designation publicly.