Product & Data

Expected Release Date: October 2026

On October 31st 2026, Safe Alerts will be depreciated and replaced by our new and improved service, Exceptions.

Exceptions include everything you currently receive in Safe Alerts, plus additional insight and protection, giving you an even clearer view of potential risk across your customers and suppliers.

If you would like to access Exceptions, please contact your Account Manager. For further information, click on the button below.

Expected Release Date: September 2026

As part of our continued investment in our data and solutions, we want to make you aware of upcoming enhancements to our Canadian company data, expected to be released on September 9th 2026. In common with other data migrations away from Oracle, we are moving the data source for Canadian companies to our UPP marts. This transition ensures that our data better aligns with our standards and provides a significant improvement in overall data population.

What will change?

Data Population Enhancements
You will see a substantial increase in the volume of data available for Canadian entities. Specifically:

• Registration numbers will increase by approximately 600,000 records.
• Legal forms will increase by approximately 600,000 records.
• Incorporation dates will increase by approximately 600,000 records.

Updates to Address Formatting
Please note that there will be a structural change to how Canadian addresses are formatted in our data delivery. Moving forward, the Region field will be populated instead of Address Line 5 for all Canadian regions. This specific adjustment will result in approximately 10 million updates across the dataset.

What does this mean for you?
Following this release, you will benefit from a richer, more standardised dataset for Canadian companies.

Because the modification to the Canadian address fields is a breaking change, customers who ingest our data into their own systems, matching processes, or API integrations should review any logic or mapping that currently relies on "Address Line 5" for Canadian records. We strongly recommend updating your systems to map Canadian regional data from the "Region" field ahead of the release.

Expected Release Date: September 2026

From September 30th 2026, if you want to access Beneficial Owner information on Swedish companies, you must have a documented legal interest. Please see the summary below:

• Information from the beneficial owner register can only be used internally or for legitimate purposes under applicable law.
• Permitted users include public authorities performing statutory duties.
• Obligated entities (e.g. banks, auditors, lawyers) may use the data for customer due diligence under AML laws.
• Other parties (e.g. journalists, NGOs, private individuals/companies) must have a demonstrable and legitimate need.
• The end customer confirms they will only use beneficial ownership data for the approved purposes listed above.

Please contact your Creditsafe Account Manager to request Swedish UBO data and provide legal reasons for requiring the data.

Released: July 2026

We have recently completed a review of the scoring model for Belgian sole traders and, following this review, a number of refinements have been made to improve the accuracy and performance of the scores.

The updated scoring model was released July 13th 2026. If you monitor a large number of Belgian sole traders, you may notice a higher volume of notifications relating to score changes following this update.

You do not need to take any action. Once the new scoring model is live, the updated scores will automatically replace the previous scores across your Creditsafe solutions.

Released: June 2026

We have an update coming to Global Monitoring on Tuesday 30th June, that will remove deactivated users from the 'Share Portfolio' list.

Below is a summary of how this will affect your system:

1. User Deactivation when a user is deactivated, the following will happen automatically:

The user will be removed from the 'Share Portfolio' list.

• All existing portfolio permissions assigned to that user will be revoked.

2. Viewing users with Shared Portfolio Access

When retrieving a list of users with whom a portfolio is shared, the system will now:

• Return only active users.
• Exclude any deactivated users from visibility and selection options.

3. User reactivation

If a deactivated user is later reactivated, please note that their previously assigned portfolio permissions will not be restored. Any necessary permissions will need to be manually reassigned after reactivation.

We recommend reviewing your current shared portfolio configurations ahead of the June 30th release to ensure the right users have the appropriate access.

Released: June 2026

To ensure continued compliance with the terms and conditions of our data providers, we will be making updates to Dutch (NL) Director data within our platform.

What is changing?
Effective June 9th 2026, we are implementing the following changes:

• Removal of NL Director Search: All NL Directors will be removed from the standalone Director Search tool.
• Discontinuation of Director Reports: Dedicated Director reports for NL individuals will no longer be available for retrieval.
• Director product (search and report) is being removed from our web and Connect API platforms.

How to access NL Directorship information

While the standalone search is being retired, this data remains available through our company-level insights. To check the directorships of NL individuals moving forward, please view the directorships section within the specific Company Report.

What do you need to do? If you have automated processes or internal workflows that rely on the standalone NL Director Search or specific Director reports, you will need to update your procedures to pull this information from the Company Reports instead. 

Released: May 2026

Directorship Links

As part of Verify Search, we've introduced a new result dataset called Directorships where within the Summary, we will confirm if the search individual has been identified as a Director. If they are, we're now able to display the list of companies associated with that identified director.

The new results dataset includes a dropdown in the top-right corner that confirms how many directors have been matched. From here, users can filter the results to view the directorships associated with each individual.

Selecting 'View Full Director Report' allows the user to navigate directly to the Director Report to further investigate the individual.

Previous Address Search

Verify Search previously allowed you to search for individuals using only a current address. We have now upgraded this functionality to allow users to enter a current address and up to two previous addresses.

Released: May 2026

There will be some upcoming changes to Finnish company data available via our website and Connect API expected to take place on May 14th 2026. These updates form part of broader improvements to the data we provide. 

What is changing?
1. Removal of "Previous Score" and "Latest Rating Change Date" fields

The previousScore and latestRatingChangeDate fields will be removed from Finnish company report responses to improve accuracy and consistency across all our products, in particular, our Monitoring service.

2. Changes to VAT Registration Number (vatRegistrationNumber)

We are making two improvements to the vatRegistrationNumber field for Finnish companies:

• Format change: VAT numbers will now be returned with a standardised "FI" country prefix in line with the internationally recognised format. For example, a value previously returned as 12345678 will now be returned as FI12345678.
• Accuracy improvement: The field will now only be returned for companies that hold an active VAT registration. Where a company does not have an active VAT number, the field will no longer be present in the response.

Released: March 2026

We have updated the Industry classification codes used in our Austrian data. The fields Main Code and Principal Activity, which previously used the Austrian NACE 2008 classification, have moved to the NACE 2025 classification.

The updated classification reflects the latest industry standards and ensures business activities remain accurately aligned with current economic structures.

To support the transition, both NACE 2008 and NACE 2025 codes will be provided in parallel as additional information until 31 December 2026.

Customers should use the NACE 2025 code as the primary reference for Main Code and Principal Activity. The NACE 2008 code should be treated as supplementary information only during the transition period.

If your internal processes, reports, integrations, or data mappings currently rely on NACE 2008, we recommend reviewing and updating these to ensure compatibility with NACE 2025.