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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