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Suomen Asiakastieto Oy
Hermannin rantatie 6, PL 16, 00581 Helsinki
Tel. +358 10 270 7000
Business ID 0111027-9 Domicile Helsinki
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1. Logging on, start page, and choosing the service
2. Services, Finland
2.1. Search of data
2.2. Company information
2.2.1. Company basics
2.2.2. Company information (Risk Indicator, corporate
radar, bankruptcy indicator, collection indicator, persons in charge, backgrounds of persons in charge,
shareholders, other names, profit and loss account, balance sheet, ratios, payment defaults,
payments indicator, business mortgages, group companies, decision makers, branch offices)
2.3. Rating Alfa
2.4. ESG Report
2.5. Trade Register data
2.6. Contractor Liability Report
2.7. Instant Credit Decision
2.8. Consumer credit information
2.9. Consumer’s credit information classification
2.10. Population information
2.11. Person’s participation in companies
2.12. Monitoring
3. International
3.1 International Company Reports
3.2 Entering a search factor
3.3 Invoicing of international reports
3.4 Invoicing of international reports
3.5 European Business Register EBR
3.6 International Monitoring
3.7 Order a company report, when an International report is not available
3.8 International company information
4. Company Filter
5. Account Insight
6. Industry risk
7. Ordered selections
8. Monitoring
9. Property and apartment information services
10. PEP and Sanction Lists
11. Saving the default selection
12. Printing and saving
13. Customer service
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1. Logging on, start page, and choosing the service
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- You can access Asiakastieto’s service for contractual clients at
https://www.asiakastieto.fi/from the logon screen.
- Enter the first six characters of your user identifier (for example 123456) to the first field, and
the second part of the identifier to the next field.
- Enter the password and click "Logon"
Start page
On the start page of the service you will find information about topical service reforms, benefits, and useful
hints for the use of the service.
From the start page you can
- transfer to the desired service
- transfer to update your own information
- view the price list or instructions and to give feedback
Choosing the service
Advance by clicking the button for the service you need. The services available are
according to your rights of use.
Service |
Use |
Company Filter |
Form company target groups for the needs of sales and marketing |
Ordered selections |
rder company or consumer information
files from Finland and the Nordic countries |
Finland |
Check company and consumer data from Finland |
International |
Check company data from Europe |
Analysis orders |
Order an analysis e.g. of a company,
on which an online report is not available |
Monitoring |
Monitor changes occurring
in your clientele and/or competitors |
Own settings
Through the Own settings link you can change your old password into a new one and update your contact data.
By clicking the Submit button your new contact data will be sent to Asiakastieto.
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2. Services, Finland |
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In the service Finland you can check company and consumer data from Asiakastieto’s database.
The database contains all Finnish companies and corporations that are entered in the Business Information System (BIS) jointly maintained by
the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland and the Finnish Tax Administration: companies and corporations that have been entered in the
- Trade Register
- Foundation Register
- VAT register
- Prepayment Register
- Employer Register and/or
- Client Register of the Tax Administration, and
- companies and corporations that have filed a start-up notification, but have not yet been entered in the registers mentioned above.
Asiakastieto also maintains a register of consumers’ credit information. From the service Finland you can find credit information on
the consumers, who have payment default entries in force or a supervisor of interests.
The data contents of the services Finland can be printed here »
You can also find help for the interpretation of the contents from the help links of the reports.
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2.1. Search of data |
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The Finnish company and consumer information is searched in the following way
- enter the search criterion
- choose the service
- press "Get" or enter
The service buttons that are passive in the service menu require additional specifications to be made to your rights
of use or a separate contract. Please contact Asiakastieto’s Customer Service
Contact Information
Entering a Finnish search criterion
Service |
Search criteia |
Entering the search criterion |
Free contact data |
Business ID or company’s name |
Business ID 12345678 or 1234567-8 (with or without the dash)
Company’s official name or part of the name
Also a former name, business, auxiliary or parallel name entered in the Trade Register can be used as search criterion |
Company information |
Business ID or company’s name |
Rating Alfa |
Business ID or company’s name |
Trade Register data |
Business ID or company’s name |
Consumer credit information |
Identity number or person’s name |
Identity number 123456-111A or 123456111A
last name first name |
Payment default classification |
Identity number |
123456-111A or 123456111A |
Simppeli |
Identity number |
23456-111A or 123456111A |
Population Information |
Identity number |
123456-111A or 123456111A |
Participation in companies |
Identity number |
123456-111A or 123456111A |
Monitoring |
Business ID, company’s name, or personal identity number |
Business ID with or without the dash in the form 12345678 or 1234567-8
Company’s official name or part of the name
Identity number 123456-111A or 123456111A |
Search by name
- If you search data by the company’s name, choose first the correct company from the company list.
- If you search participation in companies, you get a listing of proposed matches (price of a list page.
- If you search consumer credit information by the person’s name, choose first the correct person from the list of persons.
Figure 1: Company list

Figure 2: List of persons

Browsing of retrieved data
Once you have retrieved Finnish data on the screen, you can browse and retrieve it on the screen again during 30 minutes without additional
charge.
Nameless enterprises
Also so-called nameless enterprises can be found in our services. These are enterprises in the Business Information System, for which
Business ID and possibly address and data on the belonging to registers of authorities can be found. This is a small enterprise (mainly sole
trader or tax corporation), which does not belong to any VAT register. Due to this, the Business Information System does not report a name
for these.
A name created at Asiakastieto can be found for the nameless enterprises, and it is of the form Business ID and text Name not available
(e.g. 0123456-7 Name not available).
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2.2.1. Company basics |
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The company basics comprise comprehensive information on the company’s line of business, development of the extent of business
activities, and registrations.
View the exact data contents »
Free additional information links
From the additional information links in the company basics you can view the company’s history data and the text concerning its line
of business in the Trade Register free of charge.
Service buttons in the report
From the company basics you can directly transfer
Under the company basics there is more detailed, separately chargeable company information on the company.
If data is available, a date indicating the time of update is given.
Thus, the freshness of data can be seen before transferring to the company information.
You will get the company information you need as an extension to the basic report by ticking it from the service menu and by
pressing "Get" or Enter. It is possible to choose only one piece or several pieces of information at a time.
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2.2.2 Company information |
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Company information consists of specified pieces of information that can be viewed through the company basics. If data is available,
a date indicating the time of update is given. Thus, the freshness of data can be seen before transferring to the company
information. It is possible to choose only one piece or several pieces of information at a time.
Risk Indicator with financial statements data / without financial statements
A classification RL1-RL5 assessing a company’s credit risk. The Risk Indicator is calculated at the moment
of retrieval from all active companies and sole traders entered in the Trade Register.
View the exact data contents »
Corporate radar
Asiakastieto's Corporate Radar alerts of abnormalities in a company's operation or of data that
cannot have been used in credit information classifications. The alerts may be associated with the
verification of correctness of data, negative data, or abnormal activity of operations. It is for the
user to assess when the alerts are appropriate and require additional investigation. The service provides
instructions where to find additional information.
View the exact data contents »
Bankruptcy Indicator
The classification KL1-KL5 assessing the company’s bankruptcy risk. The bankruptcy class KL1 indicates a
very low bankruptcy risk and KL5 very high bankruptcy risk, respectively. The Bankruptcy Indicator is
calculated of companies entered in the Trade Register, sole traders excluded.
View the exact data contents »
Collection Indicator
The classification PL1-PL6 assessing the company’s collectability of debts. The collection class PL1
indicates excellent collectability of debts and respectively, in the collection class PL5 the prediction
for successful collection is very poor. The collection classes PL2-PL4 indicate the decrease in the company’s
collectability of debts according to the seriousness of negative data entered to the company. In the
collection class PL6 it is estimated that there are no preconditions for successful collection.
View the exact data contents »
Persons in charge
Partners, Board members, managing director, owner of a firm, and/or auditors. In addition, the data includes authorised
signatures.
View the exact data contents »
Backgrounds of persons in charge
Persons in charge entered in the Trade Register, their personal credit information and positions in other companies in
one report.
View the exact contents »
Shareholders
Shareholder data illustrating the ownership can be obtained extensively only at the moment of the company’s foundation.
View the exact data contents »
Other names
The company’s auxiliary, parallel and former names and unofficial business names.
View the exact data contents »
Profit and loss account
The profit and loss account information is available for the accounting periods (at most eight), for which the company has
delivered the financial statements data to the Trade Register and/or directly to Asiakastieto.
View the exact data contents »
Balance sheet
The balance sheet information is available for the accounting periods (at most eight), for which the company has delivered
the financial statements data to the Trade Register and/or directly to Asiakastieto.
View the exact data contents »
Key ratios and industry comparison
Key ratios are calculated from the official financial statements reported by the company, facilitating the assessment
of the ability to make profits and the financial standing.
View the exact data contents »
Industry risk
A report related to the industry of your chosen company with the following content: basic information, key ratios with graphics,
payment default and bankruptcy risks, average payment delays and Risk Indicator distributions.
View the exact data contents »
News
Summaries of news published in the press about the company
View the exact data contents »
Payment Indicator
Delays detected in the company’s settlements for payments, and/or observations of good payment pattern in accordance
with due dates.
View the exact data contents of the Payment indicator.
Also information about the old Payment codes are available here »
Payment defaults and payments
The date in the service menu indicates that the company has registered payment defaults and/or payments data in force.
Payment defaults
View the exact data contents »
Payments
An analysis of delays observed in the company’s settled payments and/or observations of good payment behavior in
accordance with due dates and a five-step forecast of the payment default risk of the company and the line of business.
View the exact data contents »
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Note! You can also search to the report for printing and saving that
the company has no payment defaults and that no payment analysis is available.
- Tick the box “Payment defaults and payments” even if there is no date (i.e. there
are no payment defaults or payments data in Asiakastieto’s database).
- The following data will be printed out to the report field “Company’s payment
defaults and other credit information entries: The company has no registered payment defaults.” and
"Company’s payments analysis: (No payment analysis is available of the company.) "
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Business mortgages
View the exact data contents »
Inquiry Statistics
The service tells how many times the company has been inquired during the 6 previous months.
Group companies
View the exact data contents »
Companies, which are part of the group and the group relations are compiled into the group data. Also profit and loss account,
balance sheet and key ratio data of groups is available.
Decision-makers
Data on decision-makers, collected by Suomen Asiakastieto Oy. On the basis of this decision-maker role, it is not allowed
to view the personal credit information on the decision-maker in question
View the exact data contents »
When using the data in the register, the user has to report the address source, for example, in the following way:
Address source: Suomen Asiakastieto Oy “Decision-maker register”
Address: Hermannin rantatie 6 00580 Helsinki
Telephone: +358 10 270 7300 (consumer information)
Telefax: +358 10 270 7310
E-mail: kuluttajaneuvonta@asiakastieto.fi
Branch offices
Data on a company’s branch offices, collected by Suomen Asiakastieto Oy.
View the exact data contents »
Collection data
In collection data there are shown all draft protests issued to the company as collection actions in the past six months.
The data contains the due date of the original invoice, the issuing date of the draft, delay days (from draft issue date to
invoice due date) and the amount of the claim the draft concerns in euros.
If the claim is not settled by the due date in the issued draft, the protest applicant requests the draft to be protested.
The protesting of the draft causes a payment default entry to be registered to the debtor’s payment default data.
Company description
Company description consists of information eg. on a company´s business as well products and services. The source of
information is either companies themselves or their home pages.
Additional information links free of charge
All pieces of company information you have chosen and retrieved will open as an extension to the company basics in the
report field. You can include additional information in the report through free links. They are shown in the report as
blue text links.
Service buttons in the report
From the chargeable service buttons (€) in the report you can transfer to other data services concerning the
company and its persons in charge.
You can also access the service you need by selecting it from the service menu on the left and by
pressing "Get" or Enter.
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2.3. Rating Alfa with financial statements / without financial statements |
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Rating Alfa is an interpreted summary of a company’s creditworthiness and the factors in its background.
The rating given with an international seven-step letter scale (AAA - C) assesses reliably the company’s repayment ability within
3 years. View the exact data contents»
Rated companies
Rating Alfa is available on limited companies, public limited companies, limited partnerships, partnerships, housing companies and cooperatives entered in
the Trade Register, and of sole traders, when the identity number of the owner of the firm and the industry classication is available.
Rating Alfa is also available on associations and foundations entered in the Finnish Business Information System (BIS).
Rating Alfa classification is not produced on:
- companies that are not entered in the Trade Register
- banks or insurance companies
- dissolved or merged companies, or companies with a division or separation decision
- companies that have filed a bankruptcy petition and/or that have been adjudicated bankrupt
Free additional information links in the report
The Rating Alfa report contains several free additional information links, from which you can supplement the data of the report.
- Payment defaults and payments with industry data
- Corporate links of persons in charge
- Financial statement and key ratios
- Shareholders
- Business mortgages
- Group information
- Branch offices
- Inquiry Statistics
- Court rulings and penalty payments
- Rating history
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2.4. ESG Report |
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The ESG Report is a summary of the ways in which the company upholds its responsibilities.
It covers the company’s ability to take responsibility for matters pertaining to the environment, society, administration, and finances.
The minimum level for responsible operations is compliance with the law and official regulations. The report mentions all the
offences and convictions that have been charged against or imposed on the company. Different certificates and management systems reflect
the company’s positive efforts to manage non-financial responsibilities.
ESG Reports are available for all the enterprises that are currently active.
Read more »
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2.5.Trade Register data |
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You can obtain electronic Trade Register documents and extracts from the Register of Associations from the service through a direct
terminal connection.
Trade Register data
Choose the document
- Extract from the Trade Register: the company’s valid Trade Register data
- Articles of Association or partnership agreement: valid articles of association, partnership agreements, and by-laws
- In progress data: information on notifications concerning the company that are being processed in the Trade Register
- Financial statements data: financial statements documents of max. 6 newest financial periods
- Extract from the Register of Associations: valid data from the Register of Assocations
- Register of Foundation data: valid Register of Foundation extract and Foundation rules
The direct connection to the Trade Register database is accessible all day round every day, with the exception of articles of
association, which are available every day from 8.00 to 23.00. The data is invoiced on the same invoice with
Asiakastieto’s other services.
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2.6. Contractor Liability Report |
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The Service contains the following sections of Asiakastieto’s Company Information:
- Company’s basic data
- Persons in charge and auditors
- Authorised signatories and text concerning authorised signatures
- Bans on business operations of persons in charge
The Service contains the following data obtained from Vastuu Group Oy:
- Tax payment data
- Pension insurance data
- Collective agreements to be observed
- Industrial accident insurance data
- Liability insurance data
The data obtained from Vastuu Group is combined with the company’s register and business prohibition data in Asiakastieto’s database, and a
three-step interpretation of the status of the data specified in the Contractor Liability Act is made on the basis of this data.
Response and conditions for the check of entries in the register:
YES
- All registry entries required by the Contractor Liability Act are valid and
- Persons in charge have no bans on business operations
CONSIDER
- The registry entries are incomplete and
- Persons in charge have no bans on business operations
NO
- Persons in charge have bans on business operations
- The company is dissolved
The purpose of use of the report
The Contractor Liability Report is specifically designed to be used to verify the reliability of subcontractors, contractors and various partners
as defined in the Contractor Liability Act. The Contractor Liability Report aims to combat the grey economy and prevent the use of subcontractors
who do not meet their obligations to society.
The customer must have the information specified in the Contractor Liability Act and an extract from the Trade Register (or equivalent information)
of its subcontractor or the employer of the hired employee clarified before the conclusion of the contract and every 12 months during the term of
the contract.
At the time of concluding the contract, this information must not be older than 3 months and must be kept attached to the contract. If the hired
employee’s employer or a party to the subcontractor contract is a foreign company, the company must provide the corresponding information
Obligations of the Contractor Liability Act:
Before concluding a contract for the use of a hired worker or for subcontracted work, the contractor shall request the contract party to provide
the contractor with:
- a statement as to whether the company has been entered in the Prepayment Register and the Employer Register in accordance with the
Prepayment Act (1118/1996) and in the VAT register in accordance with the Value Added Tax Act (1501/1993);
- an extract from the Trade Register or information corresponding to the extract otherwise obtained from the Trade Register;
- a statement that the company does not have a tax liability referred to in section 20b (1) (2) of the Act on the Public Disclosure
and Confidentiality of Tax Information (1346/1999) or a statement issued by an authority on the amount of the tax liability;
- certificates on the taking out of employees’ pension insurance policies and the payment of pension insurance contributions or a
statement that a payment agreement concerning overdue pension insurance contributions has been entered into;
- a statement of the collective agreement or key working conditions applicable to the work;
- a report on the organization of occupational health care.
(Act on the Contractor’s Obligations and Liability when Work is Contracted Out (22.12.2006/1233)
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2.7. Instant Credit Decision |
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Instant Credit Decision forms a recommendation for granting credit to a company by analysing for you all data having an impact on
the company’s payment ability from Asiakastieto’s comprehensive credit information database and Asiakastieto’s risk classification models.
Instant Credit Decision gives a prepared decision suggestion Yes, Consider or No and tells the factors with the highest emphasis on the
decision. In addition it shows the company’s contact data, persons in charge and authorized signatories.
Instant Credit Decision is recommended to be used in credits in the amount of at most 10,000 euro. In big credits we advise you to
study the company’s status more closely, for example, by using the Rating Alfa report.
The decision suggestion is no if, for example, one of the following is fulfilled:
- The company’s risk classification indicates high or very high risk
- The company has been dissolved, it is bankrupt or in liquidation
- The company’s operation has been interrupted, discontinued or terminated according to the Business Information System
- The company has bankruptcy, company restructuring or lack of means entries
- The company has been removed from the Prepayment Register
- All the persons in charge in the company have resigned
- The company’s registration is in progress at the Trade Register
The decision suggestion is Consider if, for example
- The company’s creditworthiness classification indicates moderate risk, or
- The company has payment defaults and its risk is moderate according to the classification.
The decision suggestion is available on limited companies, public limited companies, limited partnerships, general partnerships,
cooperatives and sole traders entered in the Trade Register when the identity number of the business proprietor and industry
classification are available.
The decision suggestion is not given for companies not entered in the Trade Register or companies, for which no risk classification
can be calculated due to lack of data.
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2.8.Consumer credit information |
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Asiakastieto’s database contains the consumers, who have valid payment defaults confirmed by the authorities, consumer credit defaults
or a supervisor of interests.
View the data contents »
According to the Personal Data Act, credit data on consumers may only be disclosed for the purpose of credit granting or credit controlling,
or some other similar purpose. If you wish to obtain the right to use consumer credit information, please contact Asiakastieto’s Customer Service
Contact Information
Entering a search criterion
- When the search criterion is the identity number, the service provides you with the reply directly. You don’t need to enter
the person’s name at all.
- When the search criterion is the person’s name (last name first name), the service provides you with a name list, from which
the correct person is chosen. From the list you can also transfer to the person’s participation in companies.
- When you use person’s identity number and name as the search criterion, the reply of a person with no payment defaults is
always provided on the basis of the identity number. In this case, the correct spelling of the name is not relevant.
Reporting the purpose of use of the data
The use of consumer credit information is prescribed by law. The user of the information has to report, for which purpose the data will be
used. The purpose of use defines whether the inquiry concerns the granting of credit, credit controlling, debt collection, or some other
purpose of use according to the Personal Data Act, or an inquiry made with the data subject’s own consent. Other purpose of use according
to the Personal Data Act may, for example, be a situation, in which an employer is hiring a person to a duty, in which the employee will be
financially responsible for the employer’s property. Data concerning the inquiry and the inquirer will remain in Asiakastieto’s register
when the data subject has payment defaults.
Reply
- If the person has no credit information entries in the register, the following reply will be returned: "No payment defaults
are found in our register for the given search argument".
- In connection of a payment default entry there is a Ref link, if the debt has been settled after the payment
default entry.
Additional buttons in the report
From the consumer credit information you can directly transfer to
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2.9. Consumer’s credit information classification |
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Consumer’s credit information classification assesses the significance of credit information entries to the consumer’s creditworthiness
and facilitates the interpretation of the person’s credit information.
View the data contents »
Entering a search criterion
- When personal identity number is used as search criterion, the service gives a direct response.
- When name is used as search criterion (last name first name), the services gives returns a list of names, of which the correct
person is selected.
Reporting the purpose of use
The use of personal credit information is prescribed by law. The user of information has to report, for which purpose the information is
used. Data on the inquiry made and the inquirer remains in Asiakastieto’s files when the subject of inquiry has credit information entries.
Response
- MHL0 = No payment defaults or other credit information entries
- MHL1 = Only a credit information entry or entries that are not payment defaults
- MHL2 = A payment default or payment defaults with slight significance
- MHL3 = A payment default or payment defaults<
- MHL4 = A serious payment default or payment defaults
If the consumer has a credit information entry, which is not a payment default, the service shows below the classification also a
remark text. If the consumer has both a credit information entry, which is not a payment default, and actual payment defaults, the
classification is based on the payment default entries. Also in this case the remark text linked to the credit information entry will
be shown in addition to the classification.
Service buttons in the report
From the credit information classification you can directly go to
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2.10. Population information + charge per inquiry |
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The Population information service provides you with up-to-date and confirmed information on the existence, address, competence to act,
permanence of residence, and immigration of a Finnish person or a person registered to Finland. The data source of the population information
is the Population Information System.
View the exact data contents »
The service will be opened on the basis of a separate contract for the support of credit purchases, credit granting and controlling.
Please contact Asiakastieto’s Customer Service Contact Information
Entering a search criterion
- Only the identity number can be used as the search criterion
Choose the level
If you have several levels of contents in use for the population information, choose the level you wish to use.
Reporting the purpose of use of the data
The disclosure of consumer credit information is prescribed by law. The user of the information has to report, for which purpose the
data will be used. Data concerning the population information inquiry and the inquirer will remain in Asiakastieto’s register.
Reply
- "The person is not found": the identity number is not registered in the Population Information System.
- "The personal identity number has been passivated": the identity number that has been in use has been passivated,
and a new identity number has been given to the person.
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2.11. Person’s participation in companies |
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The person’s participation in companies compiles together all positions of the person as a partner, Board member, managing director,
sole trader and/or auditor that have been entered in the Trade Register.
View the exact data contents »
Entering a search criterion
- Only the name of a person can be used as the search criterion (last name first name)
Additional buttons in the report
From the person’s participation in companies you can directly transfer to
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2.12. Monitoring |
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The monitoring service is a tool for the follow-up of customers, in which you will receive and process automatic notifications of changes
and maintain the customer portfolio you have in monitoring. More exact instructions are found
in connection of the service.
The service is only shown for the customers of the monitoring service. If you wish to have more information about the service, please
contact Asiakastieto’s Customer Service Contact Information
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3. International |
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From Asiakastieto’s International Reports, you can retrieve a real-time company information report from 35 different countries: in
addition to Europe, also from Russia, China, and the United States. The international reports are delivered in English. International
consumer credit information reports are available from Sweden, Norway, and Estonia.
You can further order a report from any country in the world from the service Ordered international reports.
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3.1. International Company Reports |
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You can access International Reports from International Services button on the front page for contractual clients. In the table below,
you can find the data contents of the reports.
Data content of international reports:
Data content |
Comprehensive |
Risk Check |
Company Profile |
Basic company information |
x |
x |
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Credit rating |
5-step rating with points |
Traffic lights |
Information if the company is dissolved |
Payment defaults |
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Level: Yes/No |
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Payment behaviour and credit limit |
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History information |
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Persons in charge |
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x |
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Financial statements information for three financial periods |
x |
Turnover and number of personnel for one year |
Personnel and turnover class |
Company’s key ratios for three financial years |
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Other information (e.g. stability or development of business operations,
branch offices, owners, import/export, mergers/divisions, enterprise mortgages, company description) |
x |
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Maximum content of the Comprehensive Report:
- basic information (company’s name, address, ID, contact information, date of establishment, company form, branch of industry,
share capital, number of shares)
- activity
- history information (name, address, company form, share capital)
- creditworthiness rating (points 0 - 100)
- one-off credit recommendation in the currency of the country in question
- credit risk assessment
- financial information and financial key ratios (e.g. profitability, development of business operations, order portfolio)
- financial statements and key ratio information in accordance with the country practice, e.g. from Germany often on estimated annual turnover.
- payments and possible payment defaults
- company’s persons in charge and owners
- possible old names
- group connections
- authorised signatures
- audit clause
- auditors
- administrator of the bankrupt’s estate, liquidator
The reports are presented in the same format regardless of the country. The scope of the information
varies according to the laws and practices of each country. The systems of foreign partners have their
own credit rating. For example, in the risk rating of Asiakastieto, companies with a score of 100
belong to the category "very high risk", while credit ratings of 100 by foreign partners
place the company in the category "excellent". In the International Comprehensive Report,
the credit rating is standardised, and the reports are comparable in terms of rating.
Report availability:
Comprehensive, Risk Check and Company Profile are Online reports.
If an up-to-date Comprehensive report is not available, you can order an up-to-date report and we will
deliver it to you within 1-5 business days for the same price. When the report is complete, you will
find it in the International Reports mailbox. From the mailbox you can monitor the status of the
report (open, completed, error) and save and print the submitted reports.
Country coverage of international reports:
Country |
Comprehensive |
Risk Check |
Company Profile |
International monitoring |
The Netherlands |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Belgium |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Bulgaria |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Spain |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Ireland |
x |
x |
x |
x |
United Kingdom |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Italy |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Austria |
x |
x |
x |
x |
China |
x |
x |
x |
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Croatia |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Latvia |
x |
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x |
Liechtenstein |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Lithuania |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Luxemburg |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Macedonia |
x |
x |
x |
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Norway |
x |
x |
x |
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Portugal |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Poland |
x |
x |
x |
x |
France |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Romania |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Sweden |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Germany |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Serbia |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Slovakia |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Slovenia |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Switzerland |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Denmark |
x |
x |
x |
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Czech Republic |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Turkey |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Ukraine |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Hungary |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Russia |
x |
x |
x |
x |
Estonia |
x |
x |
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x* |
United States |
x |
x |
x |
x |
*Notification monitoring is available from Estonia; an up-to-date report can be purchased from the Buy button in the notification
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3.2. Entering a search factor |
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The search is free of charge. The invoicing transaction is generated only after you have chosen the company’s information.
- Choose the country from the pull-down menu
- We recommend searching companies with the foreign company’s name
- Use as few search factors as possible
- The letter size is not significant
- If you use company ID as search factor, other search factors cannot be used
- If you use company name as search factor, use only part of the name and leave out the company form
- Consumer reports are most easily found with identity number
- Country-specific instructions are given in the table below
Country-specific help for the search of International Reports and International Monitoring
Country |
Name search |
Help for name search |
Company ID search |
Company ID for the search |
The Netherlands |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
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Belgium |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration No. (Ondernemingsnummer) |
Bulgaria |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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Spain |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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Ireland |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration No. |
United Kingdom |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Company No. |
Italy |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
VAT Nr (P.IVA) |
Austria |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Creditreform-Nr |
China |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration No. |
Croatia |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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Latvia |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration Nr (Reģistrācijas numurs) |
Liechtenstein |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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Lithuania |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration Nr (Įmonės kodas) |
Luxemburg |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Creditreform-Nr |
Macedonia |
Yes |
Official name |
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Norway |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration No. (Organisationsnr.) |
Poland |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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Portugal |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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France |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
SIREN No. |
Romania |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
VAT No. (CUI) |
Sweden |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration No. (Organisationsnr) |
Germany |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Creditreform-Nr |
Serbia |
Yes |
Official name |
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Slovakia |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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Slovenia |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration Nr (matična številka) |
Switzerland |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Creditreform-Nr |
Denmark |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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Czech Republic |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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Turkey |
Yes |
Official name |
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Ukraine |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
|
Hungary |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration Nr (Cégjegyzékszám) |
Russia |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration No. |
Estonia |
Yes |
Official name |
Yes |
Registration No. (Registrikood) |
United States |
Yes |
Official name |
No |
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3.3 Invoicing of international reports |
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If you have purchased an International Comprehensive Report and order a cheaper Risk Check/Company
Profile report on the same subject, the cheaper report will be free if the purchase was made with the
same user ID within an hour (1h).
If you have purchased a cheaper international report Company Profile or Risk Check and order a more
expensive Risk Check or Comprehensive Report on the same subject, the cheaper report will be free
if the purchases were made with the same user ID within the same date.
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3.4 International consumer report |
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The information in the international consumer reports vary depending on the legislation and practices
in each country.
Data content of consumer reports:
Data content |
Norway |
Sweden |
Estonia |
Consumer basic information (Name, identity number, address, date of birth, gender etc.) |
x |
x |
x |
Payment defaults |
x |
x |
x |
Property information |
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x |
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Taxation information |
x |
x |
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Other information (Emigration, driver’s licence lost, number of inquiries etc.) |
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3.5 European Business Register EBR |
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European Business Register (EBR) is a joint network of National Business Registers and Information
Providers in European countries, providing access to reliable information directly from the National
Business Register in each country.
From the European Business Register (EBR) service you can search real time company profiles, company
appointments, and personal appointments of persons in charge. In addition, you can order companies’
registration and annual account information. The data content of the service varies according to the
country. If you cannot find the documents you searched in the EBR service, you can order them from
the Ordered international reports service.
Company search
You can search companies by choosing the country and entering the company’s name or Business ID. If
the search has been made with name, you get company browsing as response. The search made with Business
ID takes you directly to the company profile of the company in question.
Person in charge search
You can search personal appointments of a person in charge by choosing the Person in charge search
tab. Choose the country and enter the person’s first and last name. You will get person in charge
browsing as response.
If the national business register is not open, there is the word closed after the country’s name in
the country menu.
Make a new search
By using the Make a new search button you can search information on a new company or person in charge.
Company browsing
In the company browsing you will be shown at most 100 subjects matching your search criteria. Through
the Company’s name link you can transfer to the company profile of the selected company.
Person in charge browsing
In the person in charge browsing you will be shown at most 100 subjects matching the search criteria.
Through the Person’s name link you can retrieve the personal appointments of the selected person.
Company Profile
The company profile will be shown in the language of each national register. The data content of the
service varies according to the country. Via the Company form link there is provided an English
description of the company form. Through the Additional information link you can proceed to the
company’s appointment s and order registration and annual account documents.
Company Appointments
Company appointments contain persons’ basic information and information on their right to represent
the company. The data content of the service varies from country to the country. Through the Personal
appointments link you can transfer to other personal appointments of the person in question. Through
the Additional information link you can order the company’s registration and annual account documents.
Personal Appointments
Personal appointments contain the person’s basic information and personal appointments in companies.
Through the Company Profile link, you can proceed to the company profile of the selected company.
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3.6 International Monitoring |
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With the help of the International Monitoring service, you anticipate risks and continuously monitor
changes in the financial position of your customers and receive alerts automatically. You can find the
international monitoring service on the front page of the contractual client interface in the
International Services. The user must be a contractual client of Asiakastieto and have access to
international services. Monitoring information on changes is provided on a daily basis from the credit
information companies belonging to the BIGNet alliance.
In connection with a monitoring notification, an updated International Comprehensive report is
transmitted at a fixed monthly price, regardless of how many notifications there are of the monitored
company.
There are altogether 25 notifications provided by the service, the most important ones being:
- Rating change
- Status change
- Changes in negative information (payment defaults)
A purchased International Comprehensive report will be linked to international monitoring as initial
data, if the insertion in monitoring is made within 24 hours from the purchase of the report.
A more specific user interface guide »
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3.7 Order a company report, when an International report is
not available |
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If an International report is not available of foreign companies, you can order a Company Report on the
Ordered international reports tab in International Services. Please note that the order will be conveyed
to the cooperation partner as it is, so kindly write additional questions and information in English.
You can browse ordered assignments from the Browse orders - button.
If you do not receive the product you have ordered within two weeks, pleases, contact Asiakastieto’s
customer service, tel. 010 2707200, asiakaspalvelu@asiakastieto.fi »
Delivery times:
International company report |
Delivery time |
Europe, Canada, USA, the Baltic countries, Turkey, Russia |
Normal over 8 working days Express 5-7 working days
Super express 1-4 working days |
Rest of the world |
Approximately 3 weeks Express 1-2 weeks
Super express 3-10 working days |
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3.8 International company information |
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Asiakastieto offers International Company Information in the same format as of Finnish companies.
Our cooperation partner Creditsafe provides company information from 33 countries, mainly Europe.
The international company information contains the following:
- company name and contact information
- registration number
- the time of entry in the trade register
- branch of industry
- persons in charge
- shareholders
- financial statements
- risk rating
- payment defaults
- international group information)
Search
International company information is searched in the same way as Finnish company information. First, select
the country you want to search from the country menu.
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4. Company Filter |
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With the Company Filter online tool, you can find companies and decision-makers who are likely to be interested in
the products and services you offer. You can create target groups from these for marketing purposes. You can also
import your existing customer companies into the service as a block list or as a basis for a new target group. You
can also enrich or update the information content for your existing client companies. The extraction of target audience
data takes place instantly. The data can be utilised as a company list and in different file formats (excel).
Detailed information content and instructions in the Company Filter service »
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5. Account Insight |
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The Account Insight service has two functionalities:
Account Insight, in which the borrower grants the lender access to their account transactions for the twelve
months prior to the moment of acceptance.
Account Selection, in which the borrower grants the lender access to their account data (account name, IBAN, BIC and currency).
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The service functions as follows:
- The lender logs in to the Account Insight service and types in the borrower’s contact info (name, email).
The lender chooses the service, Account Insight (account transactions) or Account Selection (account data) and,
by clicking the envelope icon, emails the borrower a one-off link to a login page. The link is valid for four hours.
- The lender clicks the link and logs in to an API service using the credentials submitted by their bank.
In the service the borrower chooses the account they want to grant the access to and accepts and ends the session.
- The lender can see on the Account Insight landing page the contact they added. Once the contact status
has been updated with "Information Received", the borrower’s account information is at the lender’s disposal.
- By clicking the three dots to the right of the contact name the lender will have access to the account
transactions either as consolidated or as a list from the past 12 months.
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Settings
By clicking Settings the lender can modify the content of the email and e.g. create a default message body and greeting.
The lender can also enter a url for the end page, i.e. the page to which the borrower is directed at the end of the session.
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Definitions for Contact Status
Added - Basic borrower data is typed in but the login link has not been sent.
Sent - The login link has been emailed to the borrower.
Information Received - The borrower has successfully granted the lender access to their account data.
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The account data is available to the lender either for one month or for four months, depending on the service permission of the lender.
The lender can delete all borrower information by clicking the three dots to the rights of the contact name and clicking the bin symbol.
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6. Industry risk |
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A Industry risk -report can be accessed from the basic information section of Company Information. In the Company information menu,
you can find the option Industry risk, which you can use to search for the Industry risk report related to the industry of your
chosen company.
Key ratios for the current or preceding financial period have to be found for at least 7 companies in the line of business
before the Industry Summary can be made. If there are too few observations, the following notification will appear on the
screen: Not enough information is found on the line of business. You can choose data from the upper level.
Basic information on the line of business
- TOL code and explanation text of the selected line of business.
- Number of companies in the line of business and for how many companies financial statements are available.
- Turnover distribution in the line
Key ratios of the line of business
- Shown for 4 years if there are enough observations to enable the presentation of key ratios of the line of business.
- There are 17 key ratios in total, divided into key ratios for volume, profitability, liquidity, solvency, and working capital.
- Calculation formulas for and instructions for the interpretation of key ratios are found at:
https://www.asiakastieto.fi/help/en/ohje_tunnusluvut.htm
Key ratio graphics
- Graphics comprise descriptors for volume, profitability, solvency, and liquidity.
- The descriptors depict all companies.
- Below the images there are shown as a table the median values for all companies, and the upper quartile, median and
lower quartile values for the line of business.
Payment default and bankruptcy risks in the line of business and of all companies
Average payment delays in the line of business and of all companies
- Payment delay in the line of business in days (average) is shown in table format and the respective data for all companies.
- Payment delays describe the payment behaviour of companies in the line of business. They contain delays found in the
companies’ payment settlements and/or observations of a good payment pattern in accordance with agreements.
The information is obtained from ledger data of Asiakastieto’s co-operation partners in different lines of business.
Payment behaviour data are kept in the file for 6 months from their registration. The file is updated on a monthly basis.
Risk Indicator distributions in the line of business and of all companies
- Up-to-date rating distribution of the line of business into the rating classes of Risk Indicator, and respective
data for all companies.
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7. Ordered selections |
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Asiakastieto produces separate target groups of companies and/or consumers on the basis of the client’s own criteria. The files selected
from Asiakastieto’s database can be used, for example, for the updating of own customer data systems, for the analysing of clientele, and
for the targeting of sales.
Behind the Ordered selections button you can order a target group on the basis of your criteria, or send an offer request. The target
group will be delivered by e-mail as an excel file or a csv sequential file.
More exact instructions are in connection of the Selection form »
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8. Monitoring |
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Asiakastieto’s monitoring service monitors for you the development of the financial standing of your customers and the opportunities in a
customer relationship. Exact instructions are in connection of the service.
The monitoring service notifies you automatically of changes taken place in your clientele. You can, for example, immediately react to your
customer’s improved or weakened financial standing.
The Internet tool of the monitoring services makes possible the easy processing of the notifications of change in various work centres,
the one of which can, for example, monitor the payment pattern of the customers, the second one other changes occurring in the customers,
and the third one classifications.
It is possible to insert companies, entrepreneurs, foundations, housing corporations, and private persons in monitoring. You can easily
insert or delete subject in monitoring - in the Internet service for contractual clients you can yourself maintain your monitoring portfolio.
The data relayed by monitoring are determined according to the needs of your company:
- changes of name
- payment defaults
- payments data (payment delays and observations on good payment pattern)
- changes in persons in charge
- changes in Risk Indicator
- changes in Rating Alfa rating
- publishing of financial statements
- removed from or re-entered in the Prepayment Register
- business mortgages
- changes in company form
- mergers
- changes of the line of business
If you wish to get additional information or to get access to the service, please contact Asiakastieto’s Customer Service
Contact Information.
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9. Property and apartment information services |
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Real estate information services
Asiakastieto’s real estate information services provide you with all of the information you need on properties and their backgrounds.
You will receive the information you seek in a clear and understandable format, which makes your activities efficient and secure.
Asiakastieto’s real estate information services offer:
- Property data reports provided by Asiakastieto
- Official real property data documents of the National Land Survey of Finland
- Map service search function
- Information on the buildings and companies on the property
- Property purchase prices
Asiakastieto’s property data search
Through the service, you can search for property information by property identification, address, estate name or map search. The
service can provide you with property data reports that are produced by Asiakastieto based on the information in the Real
Estate Register of the Land Survey of Finland and that correspond to official documents with regard to their data content.
Matters requiring special attention are clearly indicated in the “Notes” section of the reports. You can also use the service
to search for official real property data documents, certificates and extracts provided by the National Land Survey of Finland.
Documents of Asiakastieto’s Real property data search open into a separate browser window in pdf format. Pop-up windows have to
be allowed for the service.
Asikastieto’s property data reports
- Data on title to property
- Data on charges
- Data on title to property and charges
- Basic information
- Data on leasehold
- Data on leasehold and charges
- Printed map of the property
- Printed topographical map of the property
- Printed map with aerial photo
Official real property data documents of the National Land Survey of Finland:
- Certification of title to property
- Abstract of title
- Land register extract
- Real property register extract on parcel
- Certification of leasehold
- Formation chain forward
- Formation chain backward
- Contact information of the property owners
- The right-of-use unit extracts of the property
Map services
The map services of the real estate information services allow you to find terrain maps, aerial maps, property borders,
property identifications and boundary markers. Additionally, you can enrich the data with traffic amounts, aircraft noise
areas, flood risk areas or nature reserves, city plans and forest resource data, for example. The map services provide you
with easy-to-use tools for measuring lengths and areas and printing out the map view.
Information on buildings and companies on the property
With a framework permit provided by the Digital and Population Data Services Agency, you can also obtain data on the buildings
on the property through the service. The information on the companies on the property is also available to all client groups.
Property purchase prices
You can see the property transactions in the area and their values by searching the Purchase Price Register. Information on
property transactions in Finland is available from 1990 onwards. The wide range of search factors allows you to target your
search precisely as you wish.
Apartment information services
By using Asiakastieto’s apartment information services, you can retrieve current information and print-outs from the Residential
and Commercial Property Information System, maintained by the National Land Survey of Finland, directly via Asiakastieto’s service.
The print-outs from the Residential and Commercial Property Information System will help you conduct background checks easily for
housing transactions. Through the apartment information services, you can also obtain a housing company’s Trade Register extract
and articles of association. You will receive the information in a clear and understandable format, which makes your activities
efficient and secure.
Available via Asiakastieto’s apartment information services:
- Asiakastieto’s apartment information reports
- Documents from the Residential and Commercial Property Information System
- Information on whether the housing company’s share register is in the Residential and Commercial Property Information System
- Information on whether the apartment has electronic ownership registration
- Trade Register documents: Trade Register extract & articles of association
- Energy certificate information
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10. PEP and Sanction Lists |
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The service allows you to search for persons and companies on PEP and sanction lists.
Searching for persons
Use the person’s name as the search term. Alternatively, you can use the person’s date of birth. Select the lists that you want to
include in your search. The search will be carried out on a global database without restrictions. For PEPs, you can carry out an
international and/or Nordic search.
Searching for companies
Use the company’s name as the search term. Select the lists that you want to include in your search. The search will be carried out
on a global database without restrictions.
Searching for a company’s PEP and sanction reports
Use the company’s business ID as the search term. Bring up the company’s information and then select the PEP report and/or sanction
report. For PEPs, you can carry out an international and/or Nordic search. Sanction reports include a limited number of lists
(UN, EU, OFAC/USA, UK).
Search results
The search results include the result type, list name and list country, among other information. To bring up more detailed
information, select Open/close all. If you use common words, parts of words or names as your search term, you may get multiple
results, some of which might not be relevant. In this case, you will need to assess the relevance of the results on the basis
of what you are searching for. You can print out a report using the Print PDF button.
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11. Saving the default selection
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The button Save as default selection in the lower part of the service menu facilitates the search of Finnish company and consumer information.
You can save the service selections you often use:
- choose the service or pieces of information under the basics
- click "Save as default selection"
In later use, the service you have saved will be selected automatically, you only have to change the search criterion.
The saved default selection is shown in the Finnish services, when you again log onto the service.
The default selection will stay the same until it is replaced by saving some other service on it.
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12. Printing and saving
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With the Print button you can print all data retrieved to and in view in the report field.
With the Save button you can get all data retrieved to and in view in the report frame as a separate html page, which you can save in your own
computer for later use. The possibility to save consumer credit information has been restricted.
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13. Customer service
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In questions related to the services, please contact:
Asiakastieto’s Customer Service Contact Information
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