# CHANGE LOG

## Featured Release

**2025-06-01 – Local Solutions - UK - Verify Product Launch**
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**New Product:** Introduced the new **Verify** product for the UK within Local Solutions. Verify enables enhanced due diligence and verification checks on business directors and individuals, supporting smarter and faster credit decisions.

- Comprehensive documentation and process flows are now available under the **Product Documentation** tab for **Verify**.
- Endpoints include individual and director search, as well as summary and full verification data retrieval.
- [Verify Documentation](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/localsolutions/documentation/verify)


## All Updates

**2025-08-15**
(Update) Local Solutions - GB - Bank Verification - sortCodeDetails field

Added the `sortCodeDetails` property to Bank Verification responses to provide additional information about the returned sort code. Updated references to use the `SortCodeCheckResponse` schema and aligned descriptions for clarity and consistency.

**Endpoints affected:**

- `/localSolutions/GB/bankVerification/search`  [See Details](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/localsolutions/localsolutions/gb-bank-verification/bankverificationsearch)
- `/localSolutions/GB/bankVerification/history/{id}`[See Details](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/localsolutions/localsolutions/gb-bank-verification/bankverificationgethistorybyid)


**2025-08-15**
(Add) Local Solutions - GB - Bank Verification - Sort Code Lookup Endpoint
Introduced a new endpoint to retrieve enhanced sort code information.

**Endpoints affected:**

- `/localSolutions/GB/bankVerification/sortCode/{id}` [See Details](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/localsolutions/localsolutions/gb-bank-verification/sortcodecheck)


**2025-07-30**
(Update) Documentation - [**Catalog Layout**](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-catalog)

The API Catalog layout has been updated to reflect the use of the tiles:

- **Authentication**: Just for dedicated authentication information - The authenticate endpoint is present in every product to ensure available access
- **Featured**: The primary way to view the Connect API and its associated documentation
- **Retained**: Houses Legacy documentation and the older way to view the Connect API Documentation (Not the recommended method)


**2025-07-28**
(Update) Documentation - Special Event Rules
Enhanced documentation for Special Event Rules: clarified parameter descriptions and added example configurations for better understanding. [See details](http://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/globalmonitoring/documentation/specialeventrules)

**2025-07-28**
(Add) KYC Protect - isDobRequired Property
Added the `isDobRequired` property to multiple KYC Protect schemas and endpoints to indicate if date of birth is required for individual searches.

[See KYC Protect documentation](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/kycprotect/kycprotect)

**Endpoints affected:**

- `/api/v1/Searches/individuals` (PUT, POST, GET)
- `/api/v1/Searches/individuals/{searchId}` (GET, PUT)
- `/api/v1/profiles/{profileId}/searches/bulk` (POST)
- `/api/v1/profiles/{profileId}/searches/` (GET)
- `/api/v1/asyncAmlJobs/{jobId}/criteria` (GET)
- `/api/v1/profiles/{profileId}/keyparties/searches/bulk` (POST)
- `/api/v1/profiles/{profileId}/keyparties/searches` (GET)
- `/api/v1/Schedules` (PUT, POST, GET)
- `/api/v1/Schedules/{scheduleId}` (GET, PUT)
- `/api/v1/Schedules/amlAlerts` (GET)


**2025-07-28**
(Update) Documentation - Company Credit Report
Updated Accept header description and expanded response format options for Company Credit Report. [See details](http://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/creditrisk/creditandrisk/companies/companycreditreport)

**2025-07-28**
(Add) Documentation - Rule 1703 - BE - Credit Score
Added description for Rule 1703 - BE - Credit Score to specify percentage value for notification trigger.

**2025-07-28**
(Update) Documentation - Credit and Risk Group Tag Name
Updated tag name for Credit and Risk group: changed 'Schema Structure' to 'Search And Report Schemas/Criteria'.
[See details](http://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/connect-api-full/connectapi/search-and-report-schemascriteria)

**2025-07-28**
(Update) Documentation - Welcome Page
Enhanced documentation clarity and structure on the welcome page.

**2025-07-28**
(Update) Documentation - isProcessed Property
Updated description for `isProcessed` property to clarify its purpose in event notifications.
[See details](http://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/globalmonitoring/globalmonitoring/event-rules-and-notifications/allnotificationevents)

**2025-06-24**
(Add) Portal - AI Assistance Tool
Introduced a new AI-powered assistance tool, accessible via the search option in the top right of the portal. Users can now click "Search with AI" to get help with general questions and guidance using all available documentation resources.

**2025-06-24**
(Update) Documentation - Decision Engine Flowchart
Updated the Decision Engine flowchart to reflect the latest process changes and improve clarity.

**2025-06-01**
(Add) Local Solutions - UK - Verify Product Launch
Introduced the new **Verify** product for the UK within Local Solutions. See details above in Featured Release.

**2025-05-28**
(Update) Documentation - Rate Limiting
Updated the Rate Limiting documentation to clarify burst and sustained rate limits, and added new examples for API usage scenarios.
[Rate Limiting Documentation](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/information/ratelimiting)

**2025-05-22**
(Update) Documentation - Verify API Parameters
Clarified required and optional parameters for the Verify endpoints, including new guidance on date formats and address fields.

**2025-05-20**
(Add) Documentation - Director Search Guidance
Added a new section to the Verify documentation describing best practices for using the director search, including the use of the `countries` parameter and referencing the People and Director Search documentation.

**2025-05-15**
(Update) Check and Decide - Tag Descriptions
Added detailed descriptions for the tags in the Check and Decide OpenAPI specification to improve clarity and usability.
[Check and Decide OpenAPI Specification](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/checkdecide/checkanddecide)

**2025-05-12**
(Update) Companies - Search and Report Process
Updated the example endpoints in the **Search and Report Process** documentation to include the missing prefix.
[Companies Documentation](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/creditrisk/documentation/companies/companies)

**2025-05-10**
(Add) Local Solutions - DE Non-Ltd Companies
Added three new endpoints for searching and retrieving non-limited company information in Germany:

- `GET /localSolutions/DE/nonLtdCompanies/searchcriteria`
- `GET /localSolutions/DE/nonLtdCompanies`
- `GET /localSolutions/DE/nonLtdCompanies/{id}`
Assistance documentation is available in the **Product Documentation** tab under **Germany - Non-Limited Company Documentation**.
[German Non-Ltd Company Documentation](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/localsolutions/documentation/germancompanyreports)


**2025-04-20**
(Update) Local Solutions - UK - Consumer and AML Search
Updated the documentation for the UK Consumer and AML Search to clarify the `pickList` and `consumerResult` properties.
[Consumer Search Documentation](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/localsolutions/documentation/consumersearch)

**2025-04-15**
(Update) Information - Rate Limiting
Improved the structure and clarity of the Rate Limiting page to better explain global and endpoint-specific limits.
[Rate Limiting Documentation](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/information/ratelimiting)

**2025-04-10**
(Update) Quick Start - API Documentation Links
Clarified that the image in the **Getting Started** section is not clickable and provided guidance on accessing OpenAPI files via the **API Documentation** tab in the sidebar.
File Updated: Quick Start - All Pages

**2025-04-05**
(Update) Access - Report Languages
Added detailed information about the availability of report languages and clarified that field content defaults to English if the selected language is unavailable.
[Report Languages](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/creditrisk/creditandrisk/search-and-report-schemascriteria/useraccessreportlanguages)

**2025-04-01**
(Add) Information - 302 Error Code
Added documentation for the 302 error code to explain its purpose and usage in redirect scenarios.
[Error Code Documentation](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/information/errorcodes)

**2025-03-01**
No changes.

**2025-02-20**
(Update) Companies - Confidence Match Search
The `matchThreshold` parameter has been updated with new banding values:
Minimum value: 893, Maximum value: 999.
**Endpoint:** `/companies/match`

**2025-02-15**
(Update) GB Consumer - Multi-Bureau Search Request
The `requestBody` now uses camelCase for naming conventions. Additionally, two new parameters, `sortCode` and `bankAccountNumber`, have been added.
**Endpoint:** `/localSolutions/GB/identitysearch`

**2025-02-10**
(Fix) KYC - Return Full Search Hit Information
Corrected the schema response object type from a string to an array of strings.
**Endpoints affected:**

- `/kyc-protect/searches/individuals/{searchId}/hits/{hitId}`
- `/kyc-protect/searches/businesses/{searchId}/hits/{hitId}`


**2025-01-20**
(Fix) GB AML - Identity History
Corrected the casing of parameters on the GB Identity History endpoint.
**Endpoint:** `/localSolutions/GB/identitysearch/history`