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EBR Update ECRF; June 2013 Paul Farrell. Outline. How EBR works Benchmarks and traffic Coverage Developments on services The directive. Retrievals past 12 months . Platform performance past 12 months. Charged searches 2012 2013. Coverage. New Members since ECRF 2012
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Outline • How EBR works • Benchmarks and traffic • Coverage • Developments on services • The directive
Coverage • New Members since ECRF 2012 • Malta and Gibraltar • Legislation passed 2013 • Romania • 28 partners • 22 EU Jurisdictions – including Gibraltar Bucharest | June 2013
Branch Disclosure Service (BDS) • The BDS provides a web services interface that facilitates the subscription and notification of company status events • Track each night the status of companies - usually to determine if the home company of a branch is dissolved • Current participants • Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, UK • Over 13,000 registered watches on parent companies • ~6% watched companies reported inactive per annum
BDS: Implementation • Simple central parent company watch list • Web service interface allows: • BRs to register an interest in parent companies • BRs of watched companies to notify the BDS of changes in company status • BRs to retrieve the latest status of watched companies (with date & time of status) • Updates are pushed & pulled on a nightly basis
BDS: Norwegian Case Study • Norway joined BDS in 2011 • In 2011: 17,284 Norwegian registered branches • May 2013: 13,784 Norwegian registered branches • Based on BDS information 3,950 branches under investigation • 3,089 struck off • 861 in strike off process
BDS: Norwegian Case Study 10 weeks
Service - Central Names Index • Pan-European company search facility • High quality, high performance multi-registry search • Centralised and de-centralised data • Transliteration of character sets • Production system implemented • Pilot (11 million records) • Tested up to ~100 million records • Scheduled for production release 1 October
Directive Gap Analysis Cross Border Merger Message Support BR 2 BR Message Inbox Advanced Security Model
Messaging System • Built on top of secure messaging • Using message structures produced in ECRF Working Group • Simple orchestration through push messaging • Approach not limited to cross-border merger