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Business Radar Release Notes

Follow all updates we make to ensure the Business Radar platform helps you mitigate risks and stay compliant at all times.

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2025 Updates

Alert redesign

We redesigned the alert function in Business Radar making the set-up and review flow more user-friendly. The system now also calculates an estimate of the articles volume based on the filter choices.

Court cases in article feed

Began work on integrating court cases from official registries into the article feed for increased coverage on legal events.

Aliases in Compliance Checks

Compliance Checks now include known aliases, helping you identify potential risks linked to alternative names used by an entity.

Portfolio Screening and indicators in Portfolio list

It is now possible to screen an entire portfolio with only a few clicks. Upon screening, the results are indicated in the portfolio list, allowing a quick assessment of potential risks.

News coverage improvements

We improved how we search our historic news archive when you register a company, helping you build a more complete risk picture.

Additionally, we streamlined our news article collection, processing 1 Million articles per day.

Dun & Bradstreet partnership

Our partnership with Dun & Bradstreet helps ensure access to up-to-date company information, including directors. This also enables continuous monitoring for director changes and related compliance indicators.

Trade name in article display

Previously, other entities might have been shown in the article page of a company. Now, the articles are strictly restricted to the entity under review and will be linked in the article.

Categorisation

To improve coverage and filtering options, we added categories and changed how we categorise articles. If you have suggestions for additional categories, please submit them here: Business Radar Categories

Company & Portfolio Registration

Registering a company or portfolio is now faster and more reliable. Portfolio matching has been improved by using identifiers, resulting in a higher match rate.

Integrations

We built native integration with Hubspot, Salesforce, and more and a Python API library, accessible via https://github.com/businessradar/businessradar-sdk-python

Exclude paywalled articles

Implemented an option to exclude paywalled articles in the articles page.

UI Improvements

We made multiple usability improvements across Business Radar. One example is a smoother company registration flow when a company cannot be found immediately.

Article retention

Business Radar applies a five-year retention policy for articles.

Events timeline

The very first version of our events timeline went live. It displays major events that have happened over the last year and give you a good understanding of how certain events have influenced a company.

Data changes

To ensure better information in Business Radar, we have implemented some changes. if you would like to know more about these changes in detail, please send an email to [email protected]

Inactive directors and UBO

Since an inactive director or UBO can still have an effect on a company, they will stay visible in Business Radar. However, these inactive entities are marked as such, so that a user can determine if this additional information will be of interest or not.

General improvements

We improved our clustering further and have made some changes to how we process abbreviation, which will ensure better coverage and less false positives.

2024 Updates

PEP & Sanctions Monitoring

Added PEP and Sanctions monitoring to Business Radar, checking each company against major sanction lists on a daily basis.

Compliance Check status monitoring and improved loading time

Showing entity loading percentages for compliance screening for a more interactive user experience and generally an improvement in time required to screen an entity.

Chat-function in Business Radar

Making sure our users are supported whenever they are using Business Radar: the chat can be accessed from every Business Radar page for quick and easy support.

Knowledge Base

This environment here is new, check it out.

Better feedback support for Business Radar API

We added a new API endpoint to enable our customers to integrate Business Radar's company and article feedback mechanisms into their applications.

Company report with compliance & sanctions results

To gather a full overview including every aspect of a company without having to put the company report and audit trail together manually. Important: first do compliance and sanction screening and then request the company report.

Better filtering of commonly used trade names in non-relevant context

Making sure that news are relevant according to the context of the article.

Improved UBO data

To ensure better coverage of Ultimate Beneficial Owners in our compliance screening.

Binder enhancement

Adding notes in which Business Radar users can tag each other to the binder function for better collaboration.

Usage tab for administrators

Better user-permission management for administrators.

General system improvements

  • Improved performance when batch uploading large portfolios.

  • News article retrieval stability improvements.

  • Increased speed on company registrations.

  • Scalability and reliability improvements for company screening and monitoring processes.

  • Improved curation algorithm to identify extremely biased sources.

  • Additional news source validation for India, Africa, China.

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