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🇪🇸 Spain

• Improved speed and reliability - Spanish company data operations are now significantly faster with parallel request handling and automatic retry on slow connections
• IRUS as primary identifier - Spain now uses IRUS (Identificador Único del Registro de Sociedades) as the primary company identifier for document operations. Search by NIF/CIF still supported and returns the corresponding IRUS
• Available documents with pricing - Trade register extracts and financial statements show pricing before download

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🚀 Onboarding Profiles

• 🇧🇪 Belgium (BE)
• 🇩🇰 Denmark (DK)
• 🇫🇷 France (FR)
• 🇳🇱 Netherlands (NL)
• 🇸🇪 Sweden (SE)
• 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (GB)

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🇸🇪 Sweden

• Offering access to more Bolagsverket documents - You now have access to the following documents from the register :
  • Certified Trade Register Extract - Official & certified PDF extract from Bolagsverket containing information about the company (~3 minutes retrieval time)
  • Articles of association - Official PDF from Bolagsverket indicating business activities, registered office of the company, and so on (~ 3 minutes retrieval time)
  • Statutes - Official PDF from Bolagsverket containing information about the company (~3 minutes retrieval time)
  • Ultimate Beneficial Owners extract - Official PDF from Bolagsverket containing information about the ultimate beneficial owners of the company (~3 minutes retrieval time)
  • Annual reports (all years compilation) - Official PDF from Bolagsverket containing financial informations of the company (~3 minutes retrieval time)
  • Minutes (all years compilation) - Official PDF from Bolagsverket containing notes from board and general meetings (~3 minutes retrieval time)
  • Current assignments - Official PDF from Bolagsverket containing information about a person’s or company’s current assignements in other entities (~3 minutes retrieval time)
• Ultimate Beneficial Owners - Extracted from the Ultimate Beneficial Owners extract: Bolagsverket (the Swedish Companies Registration Office) reports control extent (“Omfattning”), not ownership percentage. Key difference: Multiple beneficial owners can each show 100% control because the percentage represents how much influence a person can exercise over the company, not their economic stake.

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🔄 Streaming Search

• Progressive search results - Search endpoints now support streaming mode via the stream=true query parameter, enabling progressive result delivery as each search source completes. This provides faster time-to-first-result and better user experience, especially for countries with multiple search sources.
• Server-Sent Events (SSE) - Streaming search uses SSE format with named events (progress, complete, error) for real-time result updates
• CLI support - The topo CLI tool now supports --stream flag for streaming search results

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Hybrid search architecture - Germany now uses three complementary search sources:
  • Cached search (Meilisearch) - Fast results from weekly-refreshed cache of active companies
  • Live Unternehmensregister search - Direct API queries for active companies in HRB, HRA, Genossenschaftsregister, Partnerschaftsregister, and Gesellschaftsregister registers
  • Live Handelsregister VR search - Direct queries for non-profit organizations in the VR register
• Enhanced search recall and robustness - By combining cached and live sources, search now provides higher recall and better fault tolerance. If one source fails, others continue to provide results.

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💳 Auto Top-Up

• Automatic credit replenishment - Your account credits are automatically topped up when your balance falls below a configurable threshold. Supports both instant payment methods (cards) and asynchronous methods (SEPA, ACH).

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Improved speed - Enhanced performance across all German company data operations, resulting in faster response times for company profile retrieval, document listing, and document downloads.
• Vereinsregister (Non-Profit Register) support - Introduced support for the Vereinsregister (VR register), enabling access to non-profit organization data in Germany. Currently available features:
  • Trade Register Extract (Aktueller Abdruck) - Official PDF extract from the Vereinsregister containing current company information

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🇷🇴 Romania

• Initial support for Romania - We’re excited to announce support for Hungarian companies with our integration of the ONRC (Romanian trade register) is now live ! Currently available features:
  • Company search by name - Find Romanian companies using their registered business names
  • Company search by tax identification number (CUI) - Find Romanian companies using their their Romanian tax numbers
  • Company search by Ordine Rc Number (Romanian company registration number) - Find Romanian companies using their their national Romanian registration numbers
  • Certified Trade Register Extract - Official & certified PDF extract from ONRC containing information about the company (~2 minutes retrieval time)
  • companyProfile - Access comprehensive company information including status, legal form, address, legal representatives, shareholders, company establishments and much more

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Improved speed and robustness - Enhanced performance and reliability across all German company data operations, including company profile retrieval, document listing, and document downloads.

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🇭🇺 Hungary

• Initial support for Hungary - We’re excited to announce support for Hungarian companies with our integration of the Cégszolgálat (Hungarian company information register) is now live ! Currently available features:
  • Company search by name - Find Hungarian companies using their registered business names
  • Company search by registration number - Find Hungarian companies using Hungarian registration numnbers
  • Company search by tax number - Find Hungarian companies using their their national Hungarian tax numbers
  • companyProfile - Access comprehensive company information including status, legal form, address, legal representatives and share capital
  • Trade Register Extract - Official PDF extract from Cégszolgálat containing information about the company (~2 minutes retrieval time)

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🇸🇪 Sweden

• Initial support for Sweden - We’re excited to announce support for Swedish companies with our integration of the Bolagsverket (Swedish Companies Registration Office) register! Currently available features:
  • Company search by name - Find Swedish companies using their registered business names
  • Company search by registration number - Direct lookup using Swedish registration numbers
  • companyProfile - Access comprehensive company information including status, legal form, address, legal representatives and other key persons
  • availableDocuments - Access annual reports from Swedish companies when available (ZIP format)

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• Improved stability in Documents section.
• When a document is available both in a PDF and non-PDF format, when clicking on the PDF download icon then the PDF version of the file opens correctly.
• Removed last year financial statement support as we are removing smart IDs.

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🇨🇾 Cyprus

• Initial support for Cyprus - We’re excited to announce support for Cypriot companies with our integration of the DRCOR (Department of Registrar of Companies and Official Receiver) register! Currently available features:
  • Company search by name - Find Cypriot companies using their registered business names
  • Company search by registration number - Direct lookup using Cyprus registration numbers with Greek prefixes (ΗΕ, ΕΕ, ΑΕ, Σ)
  • companyProfile - Access comprehensive company information including status, legal form, address, and legal representatives
  • Trade Register Extract (Study File) - Official PDF extract from DRCOR containing complete company registration history, officers, shareholders, filings, and status since incorporation (~2 minutes retrieval time)
  • Multiple company types - Support for Private Limited Companies, Overseas Companies, Sole Traders, and Partnerships

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Estonia 🇪🇪

• You can now search for available documents !
• Trade Register Extract - Official PDF extract from RIK containing complete and extensive company information
• Articles of Association (PDF)
• Annual reports (PDF or XBRL)

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🇨🇭 Switzerland

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• Improved data management in web interface (request status indicator and data refresh)
• Fixed display of the map when a company has registered headquarters
• Fixed data points selection when changing countries, i.e : if “available documents” is available in France but not in Estonia, then when switching to Estonia the datapoint should not be checked and disappear from the credit count.

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🔄 Request Metadata Field

• Pass custom metadata - Include any JSON-serializable data (object, string, number) with your company data requests
• Automatic passthrough - Your metadata is returned with polling responses and webhook notifications
• Stateless tracking - Associate requests with your internal systems without maintaining a local state database
• Perfect for webhooks - Correlate asynchronous webhook callbacks with the original request context

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🇩🇪 Germany

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🇪🇸 Spain

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🔔 Company Monitoring (Beta)

• Automated daily checks - Monitors run every 24 hours to detect changes in company profiles, ownership, and legal status
• AI-powered change detection - Intelligently identifies meaningful changes while filtering out noise
• Smart categorization - Changes are classified into 7 categories: status, address, ownership, financial, legalRepresentatives, other, and disappeared
• Real-time webhooks - Instant notifications via webhook when changes are detected
• Automatic deactivation - Monitors automatically stop when companies cease to exist, with a final notification

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📄 Document Metadata Simplification

• Removed nameInEnglish and descriptionInEnglish fields - These redundant fields have been removed from the API response
• Standardized name field - Now always contains the original document name in the local language of the country where it was issued
• Standardized description field - Now always contains the document description in English

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🇩🇪 Germany

• ID Extraction: We parse queries to extract and validate German company ID components (bureau/court, register type like HRB/HRA, registration number) from natural language queries. Includes full validation against all 154 known bureaus and 6 register types, with fuzzy matching for variations (e.g., “Munchen” matches “München”).
• Full ID Precision: When all three ID components are detected and yield an exact match, returns a single precise result without name search fallback.
• Partial ID Prioritization: For queries with 1-2 ID components, partial ID matches are ranked first, followed by name search results (deduplicated by ID).
• Robust Fallback: If full ID search fails or query lacks ID components, seamlessly falls back to comprehensive name search.

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🇵🇱 Poland

• ultimateBeneficialOwners - Access beneficial ownership information from Poland’s official UBO register for both KRS and NIP companies
• ubo_extract document - Official PDF extract from CRBR, conditionally available only when UBO data exists

• Automatic XML conversion - Financial documents in XML format (Ministry of Finance schema) are automatically converted to human-readable PDF format using the official Polish government visualization tool at e-sprawozdania.mf.gov.pl
• Dual format availability - Both the original XML and converted PDF are stored and accessible
• Seamless handling - Conversion happens transparently during document retrieval with graceful fallback to XML if conversion fails

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📊 AI-Powered Financial Data Extraction (Beta)

• Automatic extraction - No additional configuration needed; extraction happens automatically during document post-processing
• Comprehensive data capture - Extracts income statement items, balance sheet components, fiscal periods, and accounting metadata
• Multi-language support - Works with financial statements in various languages and formats
• Structured output - Financial data is returned in the extractedData.financialData field within financial statement documents

• Income statement: revenue, operating income, depreciation, net income
• Balance sheet: assets (fixed/current), equity, liabilities (current/non-current)
• Metadata: fiscal year dates, approval date, currency, accounting standard, statement type

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📄 Automatic PDF Document Conversion

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🎨 Improved Document Download Interface

• Enhanced metadata display - Richer, more organized presentation of document details including descriptions, dates, and periods
• Seamless raw + PDF handling - Clear visual distinction between original documents and their PDF conversions with dedicated download actions for each
• Improved row interactions - Intuitive click-to-request functionality for pending documents with visual feedback
• Better visual hierarchy - Cleaner layout with icon-only type column and expanded space for document names and metadata

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⚠️ Deprecations

• Removed jobs_in_progress field - This legacy internal field has been removed from API responses for security and clarity
• Deprecated main_article_of_association smart document mapping - We’ve removed the automatic mapping of document IDs to main_article_of_association. We’re revisiting this feature with an improved approach and welcome feedback on your document mapping needs
• Removed isConsolidated field - This field has been removed from the API response as we were unable to provide consistently accurate information across different jurisdictions and document types. We plan to revisit this feature in future updates with improved data validation and source-specific accuracy indicators.

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🔒 API Response Improvements

• Cleaner error handling - The errors field is now optional and only appears when errors actually occur, reducing response clutter

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Major rewrite for speed and robustness - We rebuilt the Germany integration to significantly improve performance and reliability across all flows: company data retrieval, document listing, and document downloads.

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🇫🇮 Finland

• Initial support for Finland - We’re excited to announce support for Finnish companies with our integration of the Finnish business registers! Currently available features:
  • Company search by name - Find Finnish companies using their registered business names
  • Company search by registration number - Direct lookup using Finnish company registration numbers
  • companyProfile - Access comprehensive company information from Finnish business registers
  • Trade register extract support - Full document retrieval functionality for Finnish companies
  • Article of Association support - Access to company articles of association documents

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📄 Automatic PDF Document Conversion

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🎨 Massively Improved Document Download Interface

• Enhanced metadata display - Richer, more organized presentation of document details including descriptions, dates, and periods
• Seamless raw + PDF handling - Clear visual distinction between original documents and their PDF conversions with dedicated download actions for each
• Improved row interactions - Intuitive click-to-request functionality for pending documents with visual feedback
• Better visual hierarchy - Cleaner layout with icon-only type column and expanded space for document names and metadata

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⚠️ Field Updates

• Removed isConsolidated field - This field has been removed from the API response as we were unable to provide consistently accurate information across different jurisdictions and document types. We plan to revisit this feature in future updates with improved data validation and source-specific accuracy indicators.

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🇮🇹 Italy

• Added support for closed/inactive companies - Implemented fallback mechanism to retrieve data for closed/inactive companies not available in InfoCamere blocchi
• Enhanced shareholder data structure - Fixed missing id and countryCode fields for company shareholders to ensure consistent data structure

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🇫🇷 France

• Improved KBis retrieval - We’ve made K-Bis acquisition both faster and more resilient

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🇮🇪 Ireland

• Enhanced search robustness - Improved error handling for company searches, ensuring more reliable search results when companies are not found
• Better not found company handling - Search operations now return empty results instead of errors when companies don’t exist in the CRO register, while company profile requests properly throw not found exceptions
• Improved address parsing - Enhanced address geocoding accuracy by including Eircode (Irish postal codes) in the address parsing process

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🇲🇹 Italy

• Fixed financials retrieval bug. We fixed the bug that prevented the retrieval of financial statements for Italian companies.

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🇨🇿 Czechia

• Initial support for Czechia - We’re excited to announce support for Czech companies with our integration of the Czech business registers (ARES & RZP)! Currently available features:
  • Company search by name - Find Czech companies using their registered business names
  • Company search by registration number - Direct lookup using Czech company registration numbers
  • companyProfile - Access comprehensive company information from both ARES (Administrative Register of Economic Subjects) and RZP (Trade Register) registers
  • Trade register extract support - Full document retrieval functionality for Czech companies from the RZP register

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🇦🇹 Austria

• Added trade register extract support - Full document retrieval functionality for Austrian companies from the Firmenbuch register

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🇵🇱 Poland

• Restored and enhanced Poland support - Complete rewrite of Poland integration with improved data mapping and document retrieval
• Dual register support - Full integration with both KRS (National Court Register) and CEIDG (Central Registration of Business Activity) registers
• Enhanced document retrieval - Now supports multiple document types:
  • Trade register extracts (current) for both KRS and CEIDG companies
  • Historical trade register extracts (full) for KRS companies
  • Representatives/proxy documents for CEIDG sole proprietorships
• Improved data mapping - Better handling of company statuses, legal forms, and registration numbers with proper prefix support (krs- and nip-)
• Fixed PDF document downloads - Resolved issues with document retrieval returning JSON instead of PDF files

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🔍 Enhanced Search Error Management

• Improved error handling and user guidance - Search operations now provide clearer, more actionable error messages when queries fail due to user input issues
• Better API documentation - OpenAPI specifications now include comprehensive error response examples for both 400 (user errors) and 500 (server errors) status codes
• Consistent error format - Streamlined error response structure with unified guidance messages

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📊 Shareholder Capital Fields Restructuring

• Replaced shareNominalPrice with two distinct fields:
  • nominalCapitalHeld - Total face value or par value of all shares owned by the shareholder
  • paidInAmount - Actual amount paid by the shareholder, including any share premium
• Key improvements:
  • Better support for complex shareholding structures with multiple share classes
  • Clear distinction between legal capital (nominal) and actual investment (paid-in)
  • More accurate representation of shareholder contributions
  • Alignment with international accounting standards

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📅 Enhanced Company Date Tracking

• Introduced incorporationDate field - Now clearly distinguishes between when a company was legally incorporated/founded versus when it was registered with trade authorities

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🇲🇹 Malta

• Much improved robustness - Significantly enhanced system stability and reliability for Malta company data retrieval with better error handling and recovery mechanisms.
• Restored document retrieval - Fixed document access functionality that was experiencing issues, ensuring reliable document retrieval for Maltese companies.

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• Fixed webhook delivery issues - Resolved an issue affecting webhook delivery for asynchronous job completions and failed jobs. Webhooks are now reliably sent for all job status updates, ensuring dependable real-time notifications.

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🇨🇳 China

• Enhanced robustness and improved identifier standardization - Strengthened China implementation with better error handling and system stability. Standardized company identification around the Unified Social Credit Code as the single, authoritative 18-character alphanumeric identifier for all Chinese companies and organizations, replacing previous inconsistent identifier formats.

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🇲🇹 Malta

• Improved data accuracy and performance - Enhanced Malta company data retrieval with more reliable parsing and faster processing times.

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🇩🇰 Denmark

• Financial statements and trade register extract support - Enhanced Denmark implementation with full document retrieval capabilities. Added support for financial statements (annual reports) and official CVR trade register extracts, completing our comprehensive Danish business register integration.

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🇪🇸 Spain

• Enhanced robustness - Improved stability and reliability of Spanish company data retrieval with better error handling and system resilience.

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• Improved document download experience in the customer portal, ensuring faster and more reliable access to retrieved files.

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🇫🇷 France

• Significantly improved the speed and reliability of Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) data parsing for French companies.

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🇩🇰 Denmark

• companyProfile - Complete company information with legal representatives, shareholders, establishments, and other key personnel from the CVR register
• ultimateBeneficialOwners - Dedicated extraction of beneficial owners (UBOs) separate from legal shareholders, providing enhanced ownership transparency

• Direct CVR Integration - Real-time access to Denmark’s authoritative business database

• Documents support

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💳 New Billing Dashboard & Analytics (Admin-only)

• Flexible global filters – Pick any date range (or quick presets) and choose exactly which users – plus the API – you want to analyse.
• Usage analytics – Interactive bar chart that flips between daily, weekly, or monthly views and can be split by individual user or total.
• Per-request cost tracking – A detailed table shows the exact credit cost for every request, including ones that incurred no charge.
• CSV export – Download the full, filtered history (not just the current page) for deeper analysis in your favourite BI tool.

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🔧 Field Naming Standardization

• Renamed englishName to englishTranslation - Updated field naming to align with our API naming strategy, maintaining consistency with other translated fields like legalForm. This change ensures a more coherent and predictable API structure across all data points.

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🇮🇹 Italy

• Enhanced search validation - Search queries must now be at least 2 characters long and cannot be overly broad. Clear error messages guide users when queries are too short or return too many results
• Improved legal form parsing - Enhanced accuracy and standardization of 70+ Italian legal forms for better company classification. See complete list in our Italy documentation
• Added establishments support - Integrated establishment data with comprehensive location and activity information, including active status indicators
• Enhanced shareholder parsing - Significant improvements to shareholder data extraction, now enabling full support for graph ownership tree analysis
• Added search by VAT and tax code - New search functionality allowing company lookup using Italian VAT numbers (Partita IVA) or tax codes (Codice Fiscale)

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

• Improved legal form and role mapping - Enhanced accuracy and standardization of 40+ legal forms and 60+ officer roles with direct mapping to Topograph standards. See complete lists in our UK documentation
• Standardized company identifiers - Cleaned up identifier structure with consistent naming (companiesHouseNumber and jurisdiction)
• Guaranteed SIC codes - Direct SIC codes from Companies House with AI mapping to NACE and ISIC international standards

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✨ Week 26 Highlights

• 🇮🇪 Ireland Launch - New support for Irish entities with CRO register integration for company search and profiles
• 🚀 New Topograph Portal - Deployed a heavily improved version of our customer portal with enhanced performance, better async handling, and modern design
• 🔧 Enhanced Activity Code Mapping - Improved standardization and accuracy of business activity codes across France, Belgium, and Switzerland

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🚀 Portal Redesign (app.topograph.co)

• Enhanced Performance - Faster navigation and reduced loading times across all portal features
• Granular Data Point Control - Precise selection and management of requested data points for optimized queries
• First-Class Async Support - Built-in asynchronous request handling with real-time progress tracking and status updates
• Modern Design - Refreshed interface with improved usability and visual hierarchy
• New Data Points Integration - Native support for Establishments and Other Key People with dedicated UI components

• Usage Tracking - Comprehensive analytics and monitoring of API consumption
• Request History - Detailed audit trail of all API requests and responses
• Interactive Ownership Graph - Visual representation of company ownership structures powered by our enhanced graph engine

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🇮🇪 Ireland

• Initial support for Ireland - We’re excited to announce support for Irish companies with our integration of the Companies Registration Office (CRO)! Currently available features:
  • Company search by name - Find Irish companies using their registered business names
  • Company search by registration number - Direct lookup using CRO registration numbers
  • companyProfile - Access comprehensive company information from the Companies Registration Office
  • Document support coming soon - Full document retrieval functionality will be available in upcoming releases

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🇫🇷 France

• Fixed activity code mapping - Resolved issues with business activity code standardization and improved accuracy of sector classification for French companies

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🇧🇪 Belgium

• Fixed activity code mapping - Enhanced processing and standardization of Belgian NACE codes, ensuring better alignment with international classification standards

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🇨🇭 Switzerland

• Fixed activity code mapping - Improved mapping of Swiss business activity codes (NOGA) to standardized formats, providing more accurate industry classification

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✨ Week 25 Highlights

• 🎯 Enhanced Ownership Graph Analysis - Improved UBO identification with dual calculation methods and better data visualization
• 🇩🇪 Intelligent German Shareholder Computation - Multi-source extraction strategy with automatic fallbacks
• 🇵🇱 Poland Launch - Full support for Polish entities with CEIDG and KRS register integration
• 🇦🇹 Austria Launch - We’re excited to announce support for Austrian companies, financial statements and company informations are available.
• 🇱🇺 Luxembourg Trade register Extract - New comprehensive document access (up to 1 hour retrieval time)

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🎯 Enhanced Ownership Graph Analysis

• Dual calculation methods - Accumulation and domination approaches with 25% ownership threshold
• Corporate UBO flagging when ownership chains end at companies rather than individuals
• Nodes and edges structure for clearer ownership visualization with cross-border support
• Better error handling with partial results, circular ownership detection, and entity deduplication

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Three-source strategy - Gesellschafterliste extraction, trade register analysis, and financial statement analysis (NEW)
• Multi-source validation combines results from different document types for better accuracy
• Transparenzregister cross-checking and automatic fallbacks when primary data sources are unavailable
• Improved Handelsregister fallback for document listing and retrieval with exponential backoff retry logic

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🇵🇱 Poland

• Dual register coverage - CEIDG (individual businesses) and KRS (companies) with smart ID prefixes
• Complete data points - companyProfile and availableDocuments tailored to entity type
• Document support - Trade register extract for both registers, historical extracts for KRS entities

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🇪🇸 Spain

• Fixed document retrieval and listing - Resolved deployment issue affecting Spanish document access
• Improved parsing of activities - Enhanced extraction and processing for better accuracy

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🇮🇹 Italy

• Improved parsing of activities - Enhanced extraction and processing for better accuracy

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🇫🇷 France

• Fixed Ultimate Beneficial Owner retrieval - Resolved UBO data extraction issues for reliable beneficial ownership information

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🇲🇹 Malta

• Switched companyProfile to async process - Automatic retry mechanism to overcome register instability

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🇵🇹 Portugal

• Improved shareholder parsing - Enhanced extraction and processing of shareholder data

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🇱🇺 Luxembourg

• Added trade register extract support - Comprehensive functionality for Luxembourg companies (Note: May take up to one hour due to register processing time)

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🇦🇹 Austria

• companyProfile - Access comprehensive company information and legal representatives from the Austrian Firmenbuch
• availableDocuments - Document categorization for financial statements and other documents

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• Renamed mostCompleteStatus: The mostCompleteStatus document category has been renamed to mostCompleteArticleOfAssociation to better align with our naming conventions.

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🇳🇱 Netherlands

• Improved system reliability for Dutch company data retrieval, enhancing stability and reducing error rates.
• Fixed trade_register_extract ID consistency - Resolved an issue where document IDs would change when only the document was required, ensuring stable document references.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

• Added establishments support - Integrated with the UK Companies House establishments endpoint to retrieve branch offices, subsidiaries, and other affiliated locations for UK companies.
• Many improvements - Enhanced documents metadata accuracy, fixed trade register extract listing issues, and improved overall system reliability for UK company data retrieval.

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🇫🇷 France

• Fixed establishments data - Resolved establishment identification by adding SIRET as ID and corrected establishment names for improved accuracy and consistency.

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🇳🇴 Norway

• Added establishment IDs - Enhanced establishments data by adding proper unique identifiers, improving data structure and referencing capabilities.

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Fixed company status for cached requests - Resolved an issue where company status might be returned as unknown when retrieving cached company data, ensuring accurate status information.

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🇵🇹 Portugal

• Restored document retrieval - Fixed document access functionality after adapting to changes in the Portuguese register’s retrieval workflow, ensuring reliable document retrieval for Portuguese companies.

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• Establishments - Now you can retrieve all establishments associated with a company, including branch offices, subsidiaries, and other affiliated locations that operate under the parent company’s legal identity. This helps you understand a company’s physical presence and operational footprint.
• Other Key People - Introducing a new data point to capture important company personnel beyond legal representatives. This includes board members, auditors, commissioners, and other significant roles. Unlike legal representatives who have binding authority, Other Key People provides visibility into the broader governance and oversight structure of a company.
• Phone Numbers - Companies can now include multiple phone numbers in E.164 format (e.g., +33123456789), making it easier to establish contact through official channels.
• Website - Retrieve the official company website URL directly from the API response, providing quick access to the company’s online presence.
• Status Details (Beta) - We’re introducing statusDetailsBeta, which provides enriched information about company status changes, including closure reasons, liquidation details, and important dates. The data model for status details is highly likely to evolve as we gather feedback and adapt to the diversity of register data. As this feature is in beta, we’re actively collecting feedback to refine the data structure and ensure it meets your needs.
• Topograph Standard Roles Revision - The roles in Topograph Standard for legal representatives have been revised to cover a broader range of situations and to ensure there is no overlap with Other Key People. This provides clearer, more accurate role classification across jurisdictions.

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🇳🇴 Norway

• Initial support for Norway - We’re excited to announce support for Norwegian companies, with our integration of the Norwegian Business register (Brønnøysundregistrene)! Currently available data points:
  • companyProfile - Access comprehensive company information, legal representatives, other key people and establishments from the Norwegian Business register (Brønnøysundregistrene)
  • trade_register_extract - Access official PDF extract, providing comprehensive company information including all registered data, roles, and establishments. Available in English.

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• Extended data model to include establishment logic, enhancing our ability to capture and process subsidiary and branch office information across all supported countries.
• New values in Topograph Standard for roles

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🇫🇷 France

• Added establishments support, enabling retrieval of subsidiary and branch office information for French companies.
• Fixed UBO parsing, improving accuracy and reliability of Ultimate Beneficial Owner data extraction.

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🇫🇷 France

• Fixed access to UBO extract, ensuring reliable retrieval of Ultimate Beneficial Owner information.

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• Enhanced financial statement metadata quality for availableDocuments, improving accuracy and consistency of document classification and information retrieval.

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🇪🇸 Spain

• Improved document retrieval system with enhanced robustness and significantly faster processing times, ensuring more reliable access to Spanish company documents.

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🇳🇱 Netherlands

• Fixed document retrieval and companyProfile to adapt to recent changes on the KVK website, restoring full functionality for Dutch company data access.

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🇭🇰 Hong Kong

• Restored companyProfile and registerExtract functionality and significantly improved system robustness for Hong Kong data retrieval.

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• Company Detention Tree (Beta) - Introducing graph, a new datapoint that allows you to retrieve the complete detention tree of a company. This feature helps visualize company ownership structures and can assist in identifying potential Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs). To use this feature, simply include the “graph” datapoint in your API calls.

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Enhanced detention tree reconstruction by incorporating control statements from Register Extract documents, enabling more accurate ownership structure analysis.

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🇪🇸 Spain

• Improved robustness and scalability of data processing systems, enhancing overall performance and reliability of Spanish company data retrieval.

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🇨🇳 China

• Enhanced error handling for cases where company is not found but register is accessible, providing clearer feedback and improved user experience.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

• Enhanced error handling for cases where companies are not found in the register, providing more informative and user-friendly error messages.

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Improved shareholder data extraction from documents, adding support for rotated document processing.

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Enhanced robustness of shareholders computation system, improving reliability and accuracy of ownership data processing.

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🇪🇸 Spain

• Improved system resilience for document access and retrieval, implementing additional error handling and recovery mechanisms.

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• Implemented embedding cache system for standardized activity codes, legal forms, and roles processing, saving up to 1.5 second of processing time per query.
• Fixed error handling for cases when companies are not found, eliminating 500 errors. Users now see a generic “An Error has occurred in the job status” message. We’re working on improving generic error messages.

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Major Update: Shareholders now derived from Gesellschafterliste. This is preliminary work to enable detention tree reconstruction and UBO identification in Germany. Coming soon!
• Improved robustness of company data retrieval by implementing additional error handling and fallback mechanisms.
• Improved parsing of shareholders data, enhancing accuracy and completeness of ownership information.
• Improved handling of german id including parenthesis.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom

• Fixed Register Extract functionality to adapt to the new Companies House website flow, ensuring reliable document retrieval.

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Platform

• Fixed error handling for cases when companies are not found, eliminating 500 errors. Users now see a generic “An Error has occurred in the job status” message. We’re working on improving generic error messages.

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🇪🇸 Spain

• Fixed financial document listing functionality to correctly retrieve and display available financial documents.

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Platform

• Optimized request processing pipeline, resulting in an average 2 seconds reduction in response time across all endpoints.
• Fixed performance bottlenecks when processing companies with large document collections by implementing a faster inference endpoint for document metadata processing.
• Enhanced performance logging across the application to better identify and address bottlenecks.

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🇮🇹 Italy

• Added support for asynchronous data retrieval from the Italian Chamber of Commerce (Camerale). As a result, companyProfile for Italy is now an asynchronous data point.

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🇩🇪 Germany

• Implemented fallback to Handelsregister when Unternehmensregister is unavailable for search and companyProfile.

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🇪🇸 Spain

• Improved overall speed and reliability of Spanish company data retrieval through infrastructure optimizations.
• Added support for asynchronous data retrieval for legalRepresentatives in Spain. Note that base companyProfile data still remains synchronous. This change prevents blocking access to base company data when fetching many legal representatives, which could be time-consuming for companies with extensive representative lists.
• As a result, companyProfile for Spain is now a partially asynchronous data point.

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🇨🇳 China

• Improved overall speed and reliability of Chinese company data retrieval through infrastructure optimizations.

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🇳🇱 Netherlands

• Updated document listing functionality to match KVK’s new API specifications, restoring the ability to list available documents for Dutch companies.