Guides & resources — Prometiam

Practical guides to European company registries, KYB, sanctions screening and the Prometiam company data API. Country playbooks, registry explainers, integration tutorials and honest provider comparisons.

• KYB for Poland under MiCA (2026) — The 1 July 2026 CASP deadline and how to verify Polish counterparties before it.
• Poland KYB API — Verify Polish companies via the KRS register — NIP, REGON, PKD, capital, pricing.
• UK + Ireland (British Isles) KYB — Companies House (UK) and the CRO (Ireland) under one key, two registries.
• What is the CRO? (Ireland) — Ireland's Companies Registration Office — CRO numbers, company types, and what the register publishes.
• What is the KRS? (Poland) — Poland's National Court Register — KRS vs NIP vs REGON, and why sole traders are missing.
• What is Brønnøysundregistrene? (Norway) — Norway's Enhetsregisteret — the organisation number, open data, and the missing event gazette.
• What is Insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de? (Germany) — Germany's insolvency-announcement portal — what the courts publish, the six-month deletion rule, HRB numbers.
• What is the Centraal Insolventieregister? (Netherlands) — The Dutch insolvency register — faillissement, surseance and WSNP, the KVK number, and why cases vanish after six months.
• What is the SHAB? (Switzerland) — The Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce — one gazette under three names, its rubrics, the UID, and its public API.
• What is BORME? — Spain's company registry gazette — NIF, legal forms, published sections.
• What is BODACC? — France's official gazette — familleavis values, SIREN linkage, BODACC vs Sirene.
• What is Companies House? — UK registry — company-number formats, legal forms, the PSC register, SIC codes.
• SIREN vs SIRET vs NIF — Which company identifier to store and query — formats, checksums, common mistakes.
• What is KYB? — Know Your Business explained — KYB vs KYC, the 5 verification steps, EU regulation.
• EU fintech onboarding checklist — 18 steps across legal entity, beneficial ownership, sanctions, ongoing monitoring.
• KYB under MiCA (CASPs) — The 1 July 2026 crypto-asset authorisation deadline — verify + screen counterparties.
• DAC7 seller verification — Collect + verify the business-seller identifiers DAC7 requires for marketplaces.
• Insolvency monitoring in Europe — How bankruptcy events are published in Spain and France, with REST-API examples.
• Verify a Spanish NIF in Python — Local checksum + REST lookup → full BORME profile in 30 lines.
• Daily BORME watchlist with Cloudflare Workers — Free-tier daily counterparty event monitoring with Slack alerts.
• Screen sanctions in JavaScript — EU + UN + OFAC + UK OFSI + FR gels + US CSL in one Node.js call with confidence scoring.
• VAT validation API (VIES) — Validate an EU VAT number against VIES (27 states + XI) — Python & Node, on the free tier.
• LEI lookup API (GLEIF) — Resolve and search 20-char Legal Entity Identifiers in the GLEIF register.
• Free company data API — 1,000 calls/month, no card — company search + detail, VIES, and LEI across 6 countries.
• All use cases — the hub: every job the API does, grouped by the team that owns it, plus the MCP server.
• KYB onboarding — Verify EU + UK companies in 30 lines — identifier → full profile + sanctions.
• Counterparty monitoring — Daily watch on capital, director, dissolution, and insolvency events.
• New incorporations feed — Every company registered today across ES, FR, GB, IE, PL and NO — filter by incorporation date, page with a cursor.
• Customer insolvency monitoring — Credit-control angle — over 300K corporate distress notices plus 330K dissolutions across FR, DE, GB, AT, NO, CH, FI and US, plus Spanish concursal filings.
• Sanctions screening — Six sources (incl. US CSL) in one trigram-fuzzy call with confidence scoring.
• Director network analysis — Cross-company exposure for fraud + KYB — shell networks, phoenix patterns.
• Supplier due diligence — bulk vendor resolution, screening, nine-market insolvency checks and ongoing watch.
• Ongoing due diligence — periodic KYB review as a job that runs, with an audit trail.
• Beneficial ownership verification — UK PSC by name, GLEIF parents, and the registers the API does not hold.
• CRM company data enrichment — resolve messy names to a registry number in batches, then enrich and dedupe.
• Shell company detection — registry signals assembled into a review card; never a score.
• Client due diligence for accounting and law firms — a dated CDD record per client, via REST or the MCP server.
• Batch screening and bulk lookup — the three batch endpoints, quota rules, chunking and retries.
• Company data for AI agents — the MCP server as typed tools for Claude Desktop, Cursor or a custom agent.
• All comparisons — every side-by-side comparison in one place: registry APIs, KYB and sanctions platforms, credit bureaus, and Spanish providers.
• EU + UK KYB APIs compared (2026) — Honest buyer’s guide: Prometiam vs Kyckr, Sumsub, Global Database, OpenCorporates, Creditsafe, ComplyAdvantage.
• Creditsafe alternative — EU + UK registry data and sanctions screening, public pricing from €9.99/mo.
• Kyckr alternative — EU + UK-native, daily-fresh, transparent pricing, sanctions included.
• Verifex alternative — Official-registry depth vs a screening-first API — with UK PSC ownership.
• Entyrix alternative — Committed public pricing and live sanctions vs a pre-commercial API.
• Pappers alternative — Multi-country EU + UK API with sanctions screening included.
• Companies House API alternative — When the free UK API is not enough — add EU coverage and sanctions.
• Einforma alternative — A REST API instead of per-report PDFs — free tier, public pricing.
• OpenCorporates alternative — EU + UK with daily-fresh data and built-in sanctions screening.
• Iberinform alternative — Modern REST-first API for Spanish company data — plus France and the UK.
• For lenders & factoring — borrower verification plus insolvency and control-change monitoring.
• Companies House API in Python — auth, search, officers and PSC, and where the free UK API runs out.
• BODACC API in Node.js — notice families and reading procédures collectives correctly.
• kompany alternative — global reach and audit-proof documents vs six registries in depth.
• Export-control screening — 11 US denied-party lists in the same call as sanctions.
• Societe.com alternative — French depth vs six-country breadth, honest on where they win.
• Sumsub alternative — queryable registry data vs a pass/fail verification decision.
• Company identifier validator — free, offline check of a NIF, SIREN, NIP, org number or EU VAT.
• LEI lookup — free search of the GLEIF register by LEI or company name.
• KYB and company-data glossary — identifiers, registries, compliance terms and corporate events.
• HitHorizons alternative — Registry-sourced and daily-fresh vs broad monthly firmographics — with officers, events and screening.
• registries.io alternative — A live REST API today vs a lookup tool with an API still coming — and where they beat us on Poland.
• OpenRegister alternative — Germany-only vs six-country EU + UK. Barely overlapping — often the answer is both.
• Dun & Bradstreet alternative — a D-U-N-S-keyed global platform sold through sales vs six official registries with prices you can read.
• Global Database alternative — financials and credit data on quote-based plans vs six official registries priced from a free tier.
• Middesk alternative — US business verification vs the equivalent record for six European registries.
• Trulioo alternative — a global KYC and KYB platform sold through sales vs a queryable registry API from a free tier.
• Infogreffe alternative — the official French Kbis portal vs a JSON API for the same registry facts, no documents.
• Dow Jones Risk & Compliance alternative — enterprise PEP and adverse-media data by demo vs registry data plus sanctions-list screening (beta).
• Informa D&B alternative — ratings and financial statements on quote-based contracts vs the official registry record for six countries.
• Vision-net alternative — Ireland's CRO document portal vs a six-country registry API.
• Proff alternative — Norwegian accounts and ratings from Proff Forvalt vs Norway inside a six-country registry API.
• KYB API for fintech — Onboard and monitor EU + UK business customers — registry, UK PSC ownership, sanctions.
• Merchant KYB for PSPs — Merchant onboarding, sanctions screening, and continuous merchant-risk monitoring.
• KYB for crypto & CASPs — Corporate-customer and counterparty verification for MiCA + AMLR compliance.
• Seller verification for marketplaces — Business-seller verification at scale, shell-entity detection, dissolution alerts.
• AMLR 2026–2027 compliance timeline — What Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 changes for KYB, with a readiness checklist.
• EU + UK company identifiers — Formats, checksums, and registries for Spain, France, the UK, Ireland, Poland, and Norway.
• One API for every EU + UK registry — Verify any company across 6 countries from one REST endpoint — with examples.
• API del BORME (es) — Consultar el Registro Mercantil en JSON: empresas por NIF, administradores, actos inscritos y avisos.
• Verificar el NIF de una empresa por API (es) — Validación local del NIF y consulta REST al BORME en 30 líneas de Python.
• Concursos de acreedores por API (es) — Consultar si una empresa española está en concurso o liquidación y recibir un aviso cuando se publique.
• APIs del BORME comparadas (es) — Ocho formas de consultar el Registro Mercantil por API.

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