Matthew Lee co-founded Fill Easy in 2021 and leads the company from Hong Kong. He holds an MSc in Financial Technology from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
He writes about company registries, government digital identity and cross-border data for the compliance, legal and onboarding teams that use Fill Easy, and speaks on those subjects at industry events in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.
Start with the federal CNPJ and locate the relevant state record. Company form and filing dates determine what Brazilian registration acts establish about ownership and authority.
Use the commercial folio to locate company acts and the RFC to reconcile tax identity. Present shareholders and signing powers may require additional evidence.
An empty RES result can belong to a company registered through Chile’s traditional route. Identify the regime before ordering company certificates or interpreting ownership.
Identify the local registry before ordering Argentine company records. A CUIT and a Buenos Aires address need further context to locate the right corporate file.
BRS records anchor a Kenyan company review. Legal form, record dates and access permissions determine what an official search can establish.
Keep RC, BN and other entity-type references intact. A CAC name match is the start of the review, followed by dated records and ownership evidence.
Commercial registration, incorporation and investment evidence have different custodians. Match the office and legal form before requesting the records for an Egyptian review.
OMPIC and DirectInfo support company-record searches. Local RC context, legal form and dated filings determine how the evidence should be interpreted.
A Polish business can be a company or an individual entrepreneur. Choose the correct register and keep the corporate, tax and statistical identifiers separate.
A permanent certificate code grants access to a registry service. Keep it separate from the NIPC, then read the certificate’s scope, entries and validity.
A CVR record identifies the registered business. Link its production units, financial reports and ownership evidence without confusing those records with the contracting entity.
Bolagsverket establishes registered company particulars. Its record, the company’s shareholder register and tax information answer different questions.
Identify Saudi companies through official commercial registration, reconcile Arabic and English names and assess licences, authority and ownership gaps.
Use Sijilat to match Bahrain commercial registrations, distinguish branches and licences and assess representation and ownership evidence.
Identify the correct Qatar registry, distinguish MOCI commercial registration from QFC records and assess licences, branches and ownership evidence.
Identify Omani entities through official commercial registration, distinguish branches and free-zone arrangements and assess authority and ownership gaps.
Choose current, historical or representative matters for the question you need to answer. Japanese registry certificates leave shareholder evidence with the company.
Korean court records identify the company and its officers. Ownership and financial evidence may require DART, business-group disclosures or records supplied by the company.
Match the unified business number and read registration dates. Taiwan’s public officer holdings leave ownership questions that a company registration page cannot settle.
Choose a certified record or an informational written report. Macau company forms determine whether registered quota holders or a separate shareholder record supplies the ownership evidence.
Read the DBD affidavit for officers and signing rules. Use the shareholder list’s own date and the correct form for the company before drawing an ownership conclusion.
Use SEC records to establish the exact Philippine entity and its filed position. A GIS, incorporation certificate and secondary licence answer different onboarding questions.
Use AHU for the legal entity and recorded shareholders. Match OSS business identification and tax records separately, then resolve changes or ownership gaps with supporting deeds.
Use the enterprise code to match the legal entity and tax identity. Registration records reveal different ownership information for limited liability and joint stock companies.
Jersey publishes members and directors on its company register. A practical ownership file still needs record dates, control evidence and the right access route.
A Statement of the Register brings Guernsey company details and director history together. Current shareholders require a separate company-held record.
1931 Act and 2006 Act companies disclose different ownership information. The company number and registry type determine which evidence to request.
Bermuda publishes director records through the Registrar. Members are recorded at the company, and beneficial ownership has a separate restricted access regime.
The CBRD public file is broader for domestic companies. Global Business and Authorised Company records require a different evidence plan.
Seychelles IBC searches use a request to the FSA. Public director summaries, full registers and ownership evidence have different access rules.
Samoa has a public domestic company register and a restricted international-company file. Identify the registration regime before requesting documents.
Cyprus e-search provides company particulars and officer information. A fuller member record and the separate beneficial ownership system need different requests.
A register number alone can lead to the wrong German company. Pair the court with the number, then connect the current extract to the filed ownership documents.
A KVK extract can establish the entity and its signing rules. Multi-shareholder ownership usually needs additional company documents and an authorised UBO access route.
The latest annual return can be older than the officer changes on file. Read the return date, later filings and the separate beneficial ownership access rules together.
An SARL and an SA disclose different ownership information. Combine the RCS extract, filed acts and permitted RBE evidence without treating them as interchangeable.
Public company records can name registered shareholders. Beneficial owner information follows a separate access process, and every ownership document needs a date.
A nota informativa supports a company review, while a certificate provides the registrar’s formal confirmation. Select the evidence your recipient actually needs.
ABN Lookup identifies business and tax-registration particulars. An ASIC company extract adds company officers, capital and the member information ASIC holds.
A Dubai mainland company, a DIFC company and a DMCC company have different issuers and document sets. Identify the authority before asking for a registry search.
Find the correct Canadian corporate register, match federal or provincial identifiers and distinguish corporate filings from tax and ownership records.
Use the Companies Register and NZBN to identify New Zealand companies, inspect filed details and distinguish shareholders from beneficial ownership.
Identify French entities by SIREN, distinguish establishments by SIRET and select RNE data, trade-register extracts and filed accounts.
Search Italian companies using registry identifiers, choose current or historical visura records and assess accounts and representation evidence.
Identify Swiss entities by UID, find the competent cantonal register and read representation, historical notices and ownership limits.
Match Belgian enterprise numbers, distinguish establishment units and combine CBE data with corporate publications and National Bank accounts.
Identify South African companies and close corporations through CIPC, choose disclosure documents and separate directors, ownership and tax evidence.
Choose the correct US state registry, separate domestic formation from foreign qualification and understand status, agents, filings and ownership limits.
Match the UEN, choose the right ACRA records and read their filing dates. A public profile leaves some ownership and control questions for the company to answer.
Match Malaysia’s old and new registration numbers, then choose the profile and extracts your review needs. Check filing dates and the limits of public ownership evidence.
Use the CIN to match the company, then obtain the annual return and attachments for ownership. Master data, director records and financial filings each answer a different question.
Companies House publishes officers, control disclosures and filed records together. Read their dates and scope before drawing an ownership or risk conclusion.
A BVI public search identifies the company and agent. Ownership evidence often requires company authorisation and a separate record from the registered agent.
Cayman public searches, certificates and member records have different access rules. Match the legal form and authority before assembling the evidence file.
Nine items must appear on a Mainland company's business licence, plus a QR code that links to the register. Here is what each one proves, and what a photo of the licence can never show.
The 18-character Unified Social Credit Code replaced three separate numbers between 2015 and 2017. Read position by position, it tells you who registered the entity, what kind it is and where, and it is the only search key that cannot drift.
Enterprises file annual reports by 30 June. Most fields are public; specified financial information may be withheld from public view. The filing is the company’s statement, rather than an auditor’s opinion.
The status word on a Mainland record decides whether you are dealing with a live company, a penalised one that still exists, or one that is gone. In English the three can look identical.
The legal representative is a director or manager named on the business licence, and what that person does in the company's name binds the company. The name is not the owner.
Three common court records distinguish enforcement, dishonesty and consumption restrictions. Read the company’s record and any consequences for the people who run it.
Market regulators keep two public lists with different grounds and consequences. An abnormal-operations entry can carry restrictions; a serious-illegality entry follows heavier penalties.
Seven checks, in order, for a buyer about to pay a Mainland supplier for the first time, and the answers that mean you should ask for more.
Live means a company is on the register. Dissolved can mean four different things, and some dissolved companies come back.
The Registrar of Money Lenders publishes free lists of every licensee with its licence expiry date. Here is what they show and what to check beyond them.
The BVI public record gives a company's status, agent and directors' names. Ownership sits with the registered agent, and beneficial ownership opens only on a legitimate-interest application.
The Cayman public record gives a company's status, office and directors' names. Members stay at the registered office, certificates go only to the company, and beneficial ownership needs a legitimate interest.
Sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening run on the same names and answer different questions. Knowing which is which decides what a match means for your file.
Registry records cannot tell you whether a company trades. They can show the patterns that make the question worth asking, and each pattern comes from a specific record.
The EU’s new AML Regulation harmonises core due diligence and ownership rules, alongside AMLA’s supervisory role. National laws and other duties still matter for covered firms.
Follow one fictional ownership chain from Hong Kong through the BVI to Shenzhen. Each layer has its own record, its own disclosure rules and its own idea of who counts as an owner.
Start with the Companies Registry for identity, officers and filed ownership records. Add the IRD record and other public searches according to the purpose and risk of the review.
The Business Registration Certificate records registration and declared particulars. Check its validity and compare the declared activity with the client’s actual business.
Trace the Hong Kong shareholder record through each ownership layer. Aggregate interests across paths, assess control and corroborate client declarations where public access stops.
Singpass authenticates a person; Myinfo releases government-held attributes with consent. Access through an intermediary depends on its approved use case and data scopes.
Check the credit code against the SAMR publicity system and read the business licence against the register. When the result crosses to Hong Kong, the names on it need a lawful transfer basis.
The GBA Standard Contract supports eligible transfers between the nine Mainland GBA cities and Hong Kong. Filing, consent and onward-transfer restrictions apply within its defined scope.
A status reply first, then one Order success email per document, then a summary report. Whenever something is unclear, the agent asks in the thread.
Six example emails and what the agent picks out of each. Four details make an order faster: the document names, the registry number, the jurisdiction and your reference.
For our batch workflow, send an encrypted spreadsheet and each person’s signed consent form. Send the password separately; a single-person request follows a different format.
Compare the identifiers and public records in 13 Asian jurisdictions, with BVI and Cayman for offshore ownership layers. A registry search’s scope determines the evidence you can obtain.
At the SME Forum on Transformation, Matthew Lee explained how moving verified data delivery from an API to an AI agent in an email inbox changed the timeline with China CITIC Bank International.
Removing fields wins customers back and worries compliance. Verifying at source is the way off that trade-off curve.
A deepfake syndicate opened bank accounts with lost Hong Kong ID cards. The HKMA's new remote on-boarding circular asks banks to make sure what they rely on is genuine.
A few days at LEAP East Hong Kong: a pitch, a booth, and conversations with founders, investors and partners about verifying people and companies across markets.
Fill Easy has completed an inspection by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data covering its cross-boundary data transfer operations under the GBA Standard Contract.
At IFPHK's AI and FinTech Day 2026, the harder questions: where responsibility sits when models fail, and why infrastructure readiness — not adoption — is the real bottleneck.
OCR and selfie checks no longer hold up against deepfakes and synthetic identities. Government-source digital ID is becoming the baseline — and it made the front page of HKEJ.
Fill Easy took 2nd Runner-Up at the IADS Developer Hackathon, showing how open banking can transform audit, accounting and compliance.
Fill Easy joins the Asia-Pacific programme with live identity-verification deployments and a focus on institutional onboarding.
Fill Easy places in the top 100 from more than 1,200 global applicants to HKSTP’s startup pitch competition.
Our Malta operating hub and European roadmap build on the cross-border identity infrastructure developed for the Greater Bay Area.
Standard Contract filing No. 202500031 supports Fill Easy’s Mainland China to Hong Kong personal-data transfer route.
An evening of connection and gratitude with 100+ corporate partners and tech ventures at HKSTP Partnerships' New Year Connect.
Fill Easy moderated the AI Security & Third-Party Risk panel at HKSTP's Trusted AI in Practice seminar, with speakers from the HKMA, HSBC and Prudential.
An independent assessment of the information-security management system behind Fill Easy’s verification services.
After a monumental year of growth, the Fill Easy team headed to Huafa Snow World in the Greater Bay Area — for some, a first trip to Mainland China.
A Business Development Scheme grant of up to €300,000 supports the establishment of Fill Easy’s Maltese operations.
With Innotech System, Fill Easy connects money-lender onboarding to Hong Kong’s government identity platform.
A Certificate of Merit in the FinTech RegTech: Regulatory and Risk Management stream at the 2025 awards.
Fill Easy joined a GBA x AI 2025 panel, hosted with HSBC and HKSTP, on how SMEs can leverage AI to expand into the Greater Bay Area.
At the HKSTP Pavilion, Fill Easy demonstrated GovVerify and its live Prudential Hong Kong deployment.
A tap of an identity document connects the insurance application journey to authorised statutory sources.
Fill Easy’s pitch focused on source-level identity verification for insurance onboarding and GBA customers.
Identity verification and AML screening answer different questions. A connected workflow makes the evidence easier to review together.
CorpVerify supports corporate due diligence across jurisdictions, with a particular focus on Mainland company evidence.
GovVerify connects the platform’s Hong Kong customer journey to government-confirmed identity data.
Connect identification, due diligence and ongoing review through a clear record of the customer and the evidence.
Fill Easy joins TalentCorp Malaysia’s programme with BEYOND4 as part of its regional expansion roadmap.
Government-confirmed identity supports a Hong Kong onboarding journey without the initial transfer used in the previous verification process.