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Changelog — Feb 21 – Feb 28, 2026

about 13 hours ago by ReadMe API

This week brought significant reliability improvements to verification accuracy — including critical fixes for name matching, cross-template ID checks, and Japan business lookups. Dashboard v2 gained an interactive related entity ownership graph, session expiry management, and a fullscreen document gallery. New capabilities include automated document expiry alerts, bulk PDF export, and configurable KYC requirements for beneficial owners by ownership percentage.

✨ New Features

  • Document Expiry Alerts: Upcoming document expirations (identity documents, proof of address, etc.) now generate automatic alerts visible in the case activity log, so your team can proactively follow up before documents expire.
  • Related Entity Network Graph: Business verification cases in Dashboard v2 now include an interactive graph visualizing ownership and relationship networks between companies, directors, and shareholders, with fullscreen mode and filter controls.
  • Bulk PDF Export: You can now trigger bulk PDF exports for multiple verification profiles or cases via API, making it easier to generate audit-ready document packages at scale.
  • Ownership Threshold for Related Person KYC: Templates can now be configured to require KYC verification for any suggested related person whose ownership stake meets or exceeds a specified percentage. End users cannot proceed in the KYB flow until all qualifying individuals are added and verified.
  • Conditional Address Document Requirement (Rule Groups): The address document step in KYC Address Verification now supports rule groups, allowing you to conditionally require proof of address based on other session data rather than always showing the step.
  • Dynamic Field Configuration for Related Companies: Fields in the Related Company intake form (name, address, tax ID, ownership percentage, relationship type, and more) can now be individually set as visible, hidden, or required from your template settings.

🚀 Improvements

  • Session Expiry Management in Dashboard v2: Case detail pages now show the session expiry date, upcoming reminder schedule, and actions to manually renew or expire sessions — all without leaving the case view.
  • Image Gallery Viewer in Dashboard v2: User-provided identity documents and photos now open in a fullscreen gallery with keyboard navigation and a slide counter, making document review faster.
  • KYB Auto-Reminder Email Logs: When session expiry reminder emails are sent automatically, a timestamped log entry now appears in the KYB case activity for auditability.
  • Nigeria Tax ID Validation Extended: Nigeria now accepts JTB Tax IDs (10–14 numeric digits), and Tax ID field validation has been added for 8 additional African countries (Angola, Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda).
  • Mexico Business Verification: RFC Formation Date & Validation: Business verifications for Mexico now extract and display the company formation date from the RFC number and validate that the RFC is the correct 12-character length.
  • Document Insights: More Consistent Field Extraction: Document Insights now reliably returns both the document summary and any custom-extracted fields in a single response, eliminating partial results where only one or the other was returned.
  • Argentina eKYC DNI Check: Argentina ID verifications for minors now return a specific, informative decline reason rather than a generic error.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Name Mismatch Not Triggering Review: Fixed a bug where significant name differences between user-provided data and the identity document were not flagging sessions for review as configured. A scoring algorithm was incorrectly treating any shared token (e.g., first name) as a full match.
  • "ID Previously Approved" Firing Across Templates: Fixed: the "ID previously approved" warning now only applies within the same template. Users onboarding to a second product under a different template are no longer incorrectly blocked.
  • Risk Rules: OR Condition with Contains Operator: Fixed: risk rules that combine an OR condition with the Contains operator now evaluate correctly against multi-select questionnaire field values.
  • Japan Business Verification Returning Empty Data: Fixed: Japan business lookups now route requests through the correct API, restoring complete company data after a regression introduced during a recent migration.
  • Proof of Address Failing When User Profile Creation Is Enabled: Fixed: proof of address verification now correctly retrieves uploaded documents when the template has "Enable User Profile Creation" turned on.
  • Callback Payload Correctness: Fixed multiple bugs in event callback payloads: a typo in person_reference_id in AML monitoring callbacks, incorrect event types being sent for user profile trail events (comments, media deletion, etc.), and step map updates not executing on the success path when removing a related person.
  • Document Fraud Highlights Not Rendering: Fixed: when document fraud indicators are detected (e.g., font manipulation, concealed text), the corresponding visual highlights now correctly appear in the document preview alongside the indicators panel.
  • Vietnam Business Verification Crash on Null Shareholders: Fixed: Vietnam business lookups no longer crash when the registry response includes a null shareholders field.
  • "Country Not Supported" Appearing Alongside Valid Results: Fixed: business verifications no longer incorrectly show a "country not supported" banner when results are successfully returned.
  • Font Selection Resets in Theme Configuration: Fixed: the configured font is now correctly displayed and preserved when revisiting the Theme Configuration page, preventing accidental overwrites.