🇵🇭 Philippines

Overview

AiPrise verifies Philippine businesses against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for corporations and partnerships, and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) business name register for sole proprietorships. A business verification returns the company profile, officers and shareholders. Tax identification numbers (TIN) are checked separately.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, legal form, registration date and address for most corporations
Officers	Yes	President, treasurer and corporate secretary, for most corporations
Shareholders	Yes	For most corporations
Ultimate beneficial owners	No
TIN check	Yes	Separate check

Document	Returned
Register extract	No
Articles of incorporation	No
Financial statements	No
UBO extract	No

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification by SEC registration number (company data, officers, shareholders)	26 seconds	65 seconds
Business verification through the SEC and DTI registers	61 seconds	82 seconds

These are typical times from production, not a service-level commitment: set timeouts well above them, or use callbacks.

Company types

Company type	Legal forms	Covered	What to expect
Stock corporation	Stock Corporation	Yes	Profile, officers, shareholders
Non-stock corporation	Non-stock Corporation	Yes	Profile
Sole proprietorship	DTI business name	Yes	Registration check only

Sources

Register	What it gives
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)	Corporation profile, officers, shareholders
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)	Business name registrations of sole proprietorships

Identifiers

Send the SEC registration number as business_entity_id, with country_code set to PH.

Identifier	Format	Example
SEC registration number	1 or 2 letters followed by 9 digits	`CS201912345`
TIN	Used only for the TIN check

Statuses and legal forms

Every result carries the register's own status in registration_info.status and an AiPrise status in registration_info.normalised_status. The normalised status is one of Active, Suspended, Dormant, Dissolved / Struck Off, In Liquidation / Insolvency or Unknown.

Register status	Normalised status
Found (SEC)	Active
REGISTERED (DTI)	Active
PENDING (DTI)	Unknown
(empty)	Unknown

Legal forms come back in entity_type for SEC corporations: Stock Corporation or Non-stock Corporation.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
Corporation records have no status	A full SEC record with officers and shareholders comes back without a register status, so it normalises to `Unknown`.
Many requests find nothing	Most requests in production found no SEC or DTI record. Send the exact SEC registration number where you have it.
Officer titles	`President` and `Treasurer` normalise to `CONTROLLING_PERSON`. `Corporate Secretary` comes back as `UNKNOWN`.

Limits

UBOs and register documents are not returned.
Sole proprietorships return a registration check only.