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- Hong Kong
Asia
Hong Kong
Company data from the Hong Kong business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads ICRIS (Hong Kong Companies Registry) and returns the company profile, legal representatives, other key persons and shareholders of Hong Kong companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Every request is a full register read, in verification mode.
Datapoints
- Company profileYes
- Legal representativesYes
- Other key personsYes
- ShareholdersYes
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationNo
- FinancialsNo
- UBO extractNo
- Register extract
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 50 s (approx.) in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
Integrated Companies Registry Information System – Hong Kong Companies Registry open data portal
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its Business Registration Number (BRN) as the id, with countryCode set to HK. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.
- Identifiers and formats2
- Search patterns3
- Quirks12
- Legal forms6
- Officer roles15
- Company statuses4
- Documents1
- Example responses5