What counts as a source
In rough order of authority:
- Documents from regulators, central banks, courts and company registries: filings, register entries, licences, rule texts and enforcement notices. On what a regulator decided, the regulator's own document wins.
- Statutory company filings and stock-exchange announcements.
- The company's own announcements: newsroom posts, wire releases and investor materials. We attribute these claims to the company rather than stating them as fact, unless a filing backs them up.
Trade press and data aggregators are not sources for a Fintiqa figure. If another outlet reported something first, we credit it, and treat the claim as theirs until a document confirms it. Fintechbits journalism follows the same rules, set out in its sourcing and methodology page.
Sources in the pipeline
Fintiqa reads official sources through adapters, one per source. A source only counts as connected once a real ingestion run has succeeded. In testing means it runs in our staging pipeline but nothing from it is published yet. Most are still planned or waiting on access, and we'd rather say so than imply coverage we don't have.
| Region | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|
| United States | SEC EDGAR filings | Connected |
| SEC Form D private offerings | In testing | |
| Federal Reserve | Planned | |
| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Planned | |
| Office of the Comptroller of the Currency | Planned | |
| FDIC | Planned | |
| FinCEN, DOJ and NYDFS | Terms under review | |
| United Kingdom | FCA Financial Services Register | In testing |
| FCA publications, warnings and enforcement notices | Terms under review | |
| Companies House | Awaiting credentials | |
| Bank of England, PRA, PSR and HM Treasury | Planned | |
| London Stock Exchange announcements | Terms under review | |
| Europe | EUR-Lex | Planned |
| European Commission, EBA, ESMA, ECB and EIOPA | Planned | |
| National financial regulators | Terms under review | |
| Asia-Pacific | Monetary Authority of Singapore | Planned |
| HKMA and Hong Kong SFC | Planned | |
| ASIC financial services licensee register | In testing | |
| APRA and Reserve Bank of Australia | Planned | |
| Reserve Bank of India and SEBI | Terms under review | |
| Japan Financial Services Agency | Terms under review | |
| Africa | Central Bank of Nigeria and SEC Nigeria | Terms under review |
| South African Reserve Bank and FSCA | Terms under review | |
| Central Bank of Kenya and CMA Kenya | Terms under review | |
| Bank of Ghana and SEC Ghana | Terms under review | |
| Central Bank of Egypt and FRA Egypt | Terms under review | |
| African Exchanges Linkage Project | Terms under review | |
| Global | Business Wire release metadata (corroboration only) | Licence needed |
| Fintechbits newsroom coverage | Connected |
How records are verified
Each record moves through the same steps before it's shown:
- The raw document is fetched and stored with a hash, so we can prove later what it said.
- Facts are extracted and matched to the right company, using registry numbers and web domains where they exist.
- Duplicates are merged, and every fact keeps a link to each document that supports it.
- Each fact gets a confidence score. Anything below the threshold, and any change we class as medium or high risk, goes to a person for review.
- Published records show their sources, the date they were last checked and whether a person verified them.
Reported or recorded
We keep two kinds of fact apart. A record comes from a primary document: a filing, a register entry or a regulator's notice. A report comes from Fintechbits journalism, which is written from primary sources but is still reporting. Reported events are labelled “reporting, not yet a primary record” until a filing or register confirms them, and our research says which of the two it rests on.
Company profiles also carry an evidence signal out of 100. It counts how much checkable evidence exists across six parts: legal identity, regulatory standing, financial disclosure, security assurance, funding record and recent activity. It is not a rating of the company or a view on it as an investment.
Founder submissions
Founders can add their company. A submission is stored as pending review and is never published as it arrives. Before a profile goes live we check that the submitter's email domain matches the company website and that the company exists, using a company registry or regulator record where one is available. Company-supplied details are labelled as such on the profile.
Update cadence
Connected regulator and filing sources are checked several times a day. Research pieces are monthly and say the date their data stops. Every record shows the date it was last checked.
What we don't do
- We don't estimate figures a company hasn't published. Undisclosed rounds are marked “not disclosed”.
- We don't rank or score companies on the free profiles.
- We don't scrape sites whose terms forbid it, and we don't treat search results as sources.
- Security observations, when they arrive, will use passive public evidence only. We do not run intrusive tests.
How software and AI are used
Software fetches documents, extracts candidate facts and flags likely duplicates. AI models help with extraction and classification. A model's output is never itself a source: every fact on Fintiqa has to be found in a document, and low-confidence or high-risk changes are reviewed by a person.
Corrections
If a record or a research piece is wrong, email hello@fintiqa.com with the page and the document that shows the error. We fix confirmed errors, update the last-checked date and note what changed on the page. Companies can ask to correct their own profile the same way.