Changelog
Stay updated with the latest changes and improvements to Semaphore
Platform
We are progressively rolling out these data model enhancements to our supported countries, depending on the availability of data in the currently connected registries. This means that not all enhancements may be available for every country immediately, but coverage will expand as registry data allows.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Website - Retrieve the official company website URL directly from the API response, providing quick access to the company’s online presence.
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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 registry data. As this feature is in beta, we’re actively collecting feedback to refine the data structure and ensure it meets your needs. -
Semaphore Standard Roles Revision - The roles in Semaphore 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.
Countries
🇳🇴 Norway
- Initial support for Norway - We’re excited to announce support for Norwegian companies, with our integration of the Norwegian Business Registry (Brønnøysundregistrene)! Currently available data points:
companyProfile- Access comprehensive company information, legal representatives, other key people and establishments from the Norwegian Business Registry (Brønnøysundregistrene)trade_register_extract- Access official PDF extract, providing comprehensive company information including all registered data, roles, and establishments. Available in English.
Platform
- 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 Semaphore Standard for roles
Countries
🇫🇷 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.
Platform
- Enhanced financial statement metadata quality for availableDocuments, improving accuracy and consistency of document classification and information retrieval.
Countries
🇪🇸 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.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
- Restored
companyProfileandregisterExtractfunctionality and significantly improved system robustness for Hong Kong data retrieval.
Platform
- Company Detention Tree (Beta) - Introducing
graphBeta, 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 “graphBeta” datapoint in your API calls.
This feature is currently in early beta. As it requires retrieving companyProfile data for each entity in the ownership tree, usage may incur significant costs. We recommend reaching out to become a design partner to help shape this feature’s development and discuss optimal usage patterns.
Countries
🇩🇪 Germany
- Enhanced detention tree reconstruction by incorporating control statements from Register Extract documents, enabling more accurate ownership structure analysis.
Countries
🇪🇸 Spain
- Improved robustness and scalability of data processing systems, enhancing overall performance and reliability of Spanish company data retrieval.
🇨🇳 China
- Enhanced error handling for cases where company is not found but registry is accessible, providing clearer feedback and improved user experience.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Enhanced error handling for cases where companies are not found in the registry, providing more informative and user-friendly error messages.
🇩🇪 Germany
- Improved shareholder data extraction from documents, adding support for rotated document processing.
Platform
- 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.
Countries
🇩🇪 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Fixed Register Extract functionality to adapt to the new Companies House website flow, ensuring reliable document retrieval.
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.
Countries
🇪🇸 Spain
- Fixed financial document listing functionality to correctly retrieve and display available financial documents.
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.
We are actively working on improving overall performance, with a focus on inference speed optimization. A faster inference solution is currently in development.
Countries
🇮🇹 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.
🇩🇪 Germany
- Implemented fallback to Handelsregister when Unternehmensregister is unavailable for search and companyProfile.
🇪🇸 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.
🇨🇳 China
- Improved overall speed and reliability of Chinese company data retrieval through infrastructure optimizations.
🇳🇱 Netherlands
- Updated document listing functionality to match KVK’s new API specifications, restoring the ability to list available documents for Dutch companies.