Hong Kong searches in five minutes, even on a Sunday.

A global Swiss bank's wealth and investment teams order Hong Kong company, land and litigation searches by email or API, and get results in about five minutes, any hour of any day. Now it wants us everywhere.

Wealth management and investment banking
Hong Kong searches: Lantau Peak Holdings Limited
Sources
Companies Registry, Land Registry, Hong Kong court records
Requested
Saturday 21:47, by email
Returned
Saturday 21:52
Company search
Live, 2 directors
Land search
1 property, 1 mortgage registered
Litigation search
1 High Court action naming a director
Illustrative result. The company is fictional.
  • ~5 minfrom request to result for a Hong Kong search
  • 24/7replies at night, on weekends and on public holidays
  • 3 in 1company, land and litigation searches in one request
Market
Hong Kong
Products
CorpVerifySearch catalogue
Channels
MailboxAPI

The problem

Wealth and investment teams work to the client's clock, not the office's. A new client, a property offered as collateral or a counterparty in the news can land on a Friday night.

The Hong Kong searches behind those decisions, from the Companies Registry, the Land Registry and the courts, came from separate places and waited for someone to run them in office hours.

Before

  • Company, land and litigation searched separately
  • Friday's request waits until Monday
  • The client call happens without the searches

How we solved it

One request for all threeCorpVerify · Mailbox and API
  • LiveCompanies RegistryCompany searchParticulars, directors, shareholders and filings
  • LiveLand RegistryLand searchOwner, mortgages and charges, current or full
  • LiveHong Kong court recordsLitigation searchActions naming the company or its directors
Subject Searches before Monday's client meeting
  1. Relationship managerTo agent@fill-easy.com

    Ahead of Monday's meeting, please run:

    - Company search, Lantau Peak Holdings Limited

    - Current land search, Flat A, 12/F, Crestview Mansion, Kowloon

    - Litigation search on the company and its directors

Illustrative thread. The company, property and request IDs are fictional.

The impact

Searches that used to wait for Monday now come back before the client call, and the bank wants the same everywhere.

A week of requests
request to result
~5 min
including weekends
24/7
  1. Mon
    Company search 09:12 09:164 min
  2. Tue
  3. Wed
    Land search 18:40 18:444 min
  4. Thu
  5. Fri
    Litigation search 23:05 23:105 min
  6. Sat
    All three 21:47 21:525 min
  7. Sun
    Company search 07:30 07:344 min
Illustrative week. Every reply arrives in about five minutes, whatever the hour.

The same week with the previous vendor

Waiting this week
17.5 days22 min
Waiting over a year at this pace
30 months19 hours
  1. Mon · Company search2 days
  2. Wed · Land search4.5 days
  3. Fri · Litigation search4.5 days
  4. Sat · All three3.5 days
  5. Sun · Company search3 days
Illustrative. Assumes the previous vendor picks a request up in office hours (09:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday) and returns it two business days later.

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