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• update NNC1, NNC1G, NN1 and NNC5 to version 2023
• update Open-ended Funds and Limited Partnership Funds in “Blank Forms”
• update “Address” section
• add “Overseas Registration” to corporate Entity

• forerunning update to ensure the data structure is ready for the next major update 6.0
• Further reference to the revised forms to be effective from 27 December 2023

Update Program 5.1.2 (123.0Mb)

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• Update samples of model Articles of Association to facilitate fully virtual and hybrid general meeting
• Update blank form PS3 and PS4

• Update Registers of Directors for Hong Kong companies for subsequent changes of correspondence address
• Update IRD’s new headquarter address on their forms
• Add “Our Ref.” to minutes
• Cancel the switching function between old and new CR forms

• Further update the Register of Directors for HK companies
• Add correspondence address to individual member

• update the revised and new forms for the implementation of Phase 2 of the New Inspection Regime
• Suggested procedures for changing the directors’ correspondence addresses

• update minutes, registers for offshore companies
• Governance Committee Member can be Capacity or Entity

Update Program 4.1.0 (130.0Mb)

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• update e-forms which are to be used from 25 October 2021

• update CSA for Phase I of the new Inspection Regime under Companies Ordinance
• change “Correspondence Address” in Client and Entity to “Mailing Address”
• add “Correspondence Address” to individual director/alternate director/reserve director of Hong Kong companies and add it to Register of Directors
• mass amendment to change all individual directors’ correspondence addresses to registered office address

• add Register of Beneficial Owners and Register of Directors for Cayman
• enhance Batch Filing (BVI) by adding a filter by period feature
• add company types, capacities and capital Contributions for Limited Partnership Fund companies
• add Notice of Waiver of Pre-emptive Rights to allotment
• add CDD inspection date and risk level to corporate Entity

• add Register of Beneficial Owners for Seychelles Companies
• update IRD Form IRC1263

• introduce higher password policy
• Signing Instruction for minutes/resolutions
• joint signatories of a Corporate Entity
• change the caption of passport “Issuing Country” to passport “Issuing Country/Region” on CR forms
• new Access Control Settings for User Group
  • ignore user group settings
  • control on user-defined fields
• more options in “Select” function for Mass Production – Change of Officers
• renew the business registration together with branch registration
• add “First Notice” to NN12
• more standard company types for Cayman Islands company
• “Limited Partnership Agreement” and “Section 9 Statement” for incorporation of Cayman ELP company
• more standard company types for Cayman Islands company

• update e-forms to the version effective on 6 March 2020
• state whether the class of shares carry voting right, conditional or unconditional to the Register of Members for Cayman Islands companies
• add more versions for Register of Transfers. The difference is in the column of share certificates
• add statement of “adaption of common seal” to the minutes about change of corporate name, if applicable

• update Cayman Island’s Register of Members
• add new option “Conditional” voting rights to Client’s share capital
• combine Remark column in Register of Members
• further modify statement of place of incorporation and limited liability stated in CSA documents
• add new Capacities of “AML Officers”

• update documents to meet the requirements imposed on “Non-Hong Kong Companies (Disclosure of Company Name, Place of Incorporation and Members’ Limited Liability) Regulation”
• new job “Reduction of Registered Capital” (NSC19)
• add Solvency Statement for share buyback (NSC17)
• add Requisition of Convening an EGM for removal of officers
• update CR’s sample AA
• add filter in search function in Master Files’ record browsers and picklists

• update NR2 to the version effective on 1 February 2019
• update description of copies of resolutions in point 14 “Company Records” in NAR1
• enhance Share Certificate for issue and cancellation of share certificates in one Job
• update Registers:
  • state printing date on Register as “Printed on”
  • change “Jurisdiction” to “Place of Incorporation”
  • add Register of Members for Cayman Islands
• Filter function in Master Files and picklist
• CDD inspection date and risk level
• AML officers for Cayman Company
• Enhance resolution for appointment/resignation/removal of auditor

• blank forms, company types and capacities for Open-ended Fund Company

• add a new job of “Alteration of Significant Controller”
• give more typical examples of additional matters in SCR
• enhance the compliance alert for SC and DR
• update IRC3111A
• update e-forms to the version released on 21 May 2018

• further revise Capacity Master File to allow a single or a combination of conditions for natural of control
• auto-create director, SC/LE and designated representative for founder member
• include notice and confirmation to SC in Company Formation
• add new job for Appointment and Resignation of Designated Representative

• revise SC’s Natural of Control to allow multi-selections of conditions, especially for Condition (e)
• put statements related to the progress of investigation “Additional Matters” section of SCR, not in the “Remarks” column
• give some hints on preparing SCRs after sending out notices to presumed SC / Legal Entities(“/LE”)

• amend Summary of SC to exclude nominees
• separate two types of Additional Matters – for company and SC/LE
• update NR2

• a checklist of presumed Significant Controllers (“SC”) with their required personal particulars.
• batch production and printing of notices for confirmation to every presumed SC
• batch production and printing of board written resolutions for every company to approve the location of keeping the SCR and to designated representative of the SCR

• update database to make CSA compatible with the latest version of MS-SQL Server
• make CSA Expert compatible with the user interface of Windows 10
• add the Excel checklists for submitting information of directors and beneficial owners of Seychelles companies to the registered agents
• revamp the features of Service and Invoice Master Files
• add Usual Form Presentor in Mass Production of Job
• add Director Declaration for Opening Bank Account for overseas companies
• provide an Extra or Another Identity on Statutory Form
• add Due Diligence Verification of Identity Form for BVI Company (UBO)
• update IRD Form IRBR193
• add new function of data transfer
• add feature to clear a General User’s Selected Client in User ID and Access Rights

• update blank forms for winding up: NW2, NW3, NW4, NW5
• fix the problem in saving the date in “PRC” tab of Client Master File (for PRC companies only)
• for the job of redenomination, if a company has more than one classes of shares, all classes will be printed on NSC11 and NSC13
• Updates IRC3111a and IRC3113 to version 6/2016

Update Program 3.4.1 (37.4Mb)

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Enhancement for reporting different particulars to different jurisdictions if the company is registered in more than one places:

• new data structure and interface of Capacity Master File
• handles changes on service address for BVI companies in the job “Entity Changes Particulars”
• updates documents for the Confirmation of Particulars

For BVI companies:

• show list of standard country names for BVI FSC Template
• validate country name on the Template and remark invalid names
• option to show Chinese company name on the Template

For HKG companies:

• show four company records in pt. 14 of NAR1
• add allotment and share buy-back to Remarks of Sch. 1 on NAR1
• add Client Group to My Job

For Hong Kong companies:

• update e-form templates

For BVI companies:

• handle changes of director’s residential / registered office address on Register of Directors (ROD)
• add occupation to the ROD with identities
• FSC Excel can have Chinese names
• add UBO to reports and checklists

For PRC companies:

• more options for partnership enterprises in company types
• new options to indicate “Limited liability” or “Unlimited liability” in Member

For Samoa companies:

• add statements on Register of Members and Directors decelerating the location of Register

Further update for BVI companies:

• add new versions of Registers of Directors with identities
• add location of Statutory Books and Financial Records to Client Master File and First Board Meeting

Further update the BVI FSC Excel File Template:

• individual directors are required to report both Service Address and Residential Address even if they are same
• corporate directors are not required to report Service Address
• put a hyphen ” – ” in an empty “State” field

Update CSA for the new compliance requirements imposed by the BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act. 2015 & 2016:

• update Register of Directors
• add Excel report for Batch Company Filings (BVI FSC Template)
• enhance Compliance Alert for the missing critical data of BVI directors
• find the Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) by Group Structure Chart
• add UBO to Capacity Master File
• modify Consent to Act / Acceptance of Appointment

• add service address for BVI directors
• add new Capacity: Administrator
• add location of records and underlying Documentation
• add person who maintain the registers and documentation
• update Register of Directors for BVI companies

• enhance the job “Change of Share Structure” to handle redenomination
• introduces Equity Ratio for the members of companies limited by liability and trust
• add the job “Transfer of Equity Interests”
• enhance job reference of allotment
• add new version of share certificate for BVI companies
• if the individual secretary of a non-HK company reports the principal place of business in HK as his correspondence address , change of R/O will also generate NN7. This function also applies to Mass Production of Job.

• update CSA interface – larger font on menus, new buttons on Tool-bar, higher screen resolution, interface of Member’s Capacity Master file
• add Last A/C Ref Date to Client Master File
• address of Authorized Representative (Hong Kong) can be residential address, principal place of business in HK or a specified address
• EGM for nomination / revocation of Reserve Director
• Retainer Service Master File & Invoice Master File

• apply calculation of AGM due dates fulfills both Predecessor Ordinances and new Companies Ordinance
• apply new calculations for A/R Reminder and Checklist of AGM Due Dates
• add ID and passport expiry date to the MassJob “Entity Changes Particulars”
• handle Consent to Act as Director is signed by corporate director for e-form NNC1 and NNC1G
• release trail version of e-form NAR1
• add more tax file numbers for PRC companies
• add 2 version of Registers of Charges: Hong Kong version & Hong Kong version with bilingual caption

• apply new calculation of A.R Date for guarantee and public companies
• update A/R Reminder for the new calculation
• unify the expressions of “Member” and “Redemption” in English and Chinese

• Enhance bank account master filer
• New NAC4 “Notice of Alternation of Accounting Reference Date”
• Update Form 1(b)
• New option of affixing common seal on share certificates
• Generation of “Due Diligence Verification of Identity Form for Individual Clients” as a report

• Reorganize buttons on Tools Bar
• Update e-Incorporation
• Enhance backup function to have a 2nd copy of data backup and a copy of document backup
• Allotment of shares and grant of rights with company approval in EGM
• More than one listing status in one jurisdiction
• Add bank account signer to C-E-C
• Resign Auditor in AGM

• Update e-forms for e-incorporation
• Change format of company name printed on forms for Hong Kong companies to print English name then Chinese name
• Update format of corporate names printed on NN1 and NN10 to meet the requirements on section 3 of Chap. 622J
• Add Identity to Register of Members
• Print Founder Member’s Share Certificate No. on First Board Meeting
• New function to reset folio no. for Capacity
• New function to recalculate all AGM notice date
• New section “Other Business in Minutes / Resolution

• Change default folder for the files generated by “Disclosure of Company Name”
• More options for searching an address in “Disclosure of Company Name”

• Change of Articles of Association – NAA1, NAA2, NAA3
• Change of Shares Capital by capitalization of profit or by the fund provided by members (NSC11)
• Change of Auditor (NA1, NA2)
• Disclosure of Company Name on electronic device
• Group Structure Chart supports Visio 2013
• Common system settings for printing index and letter or not
• Add description of ID type to Jurisdiction/Country Definition File
• Common system settings for printing other ID on form even passport is provided

• update NSC11 for consolidation and subdivision
• reorganise the index and version of all Registers
• default meeting type of allotment is changed to EGM (for section 141)
• add correspondence address to Confirmation of Particulars for individual officer

• new forms NSC2
• NAR1 – add page no. to Schedule 1 and 2
• IRBR2 – update to version “10/2013”
• AA Cover – update to the format of CI issued after 3 March 2014
• Board W/R – confirm to quote Article No. on board resolution

• new forms NNC2, NN12, NR1, NN12, NN13
• update the notices for declaring the company will become dormant and will cease to be dormant
• Shareholder’s written resolution: should quote section 548

• more options in Capacity Master File for individual secretary’s reporting to CR: residential, R/O, Business or specified
• enhance Entity Changes Particulars for individual secretary changes the reporting address
• adds A/R due date to Presentor’s Section
• adds postal code to the 3rd line of address for C/R forms

• except NNC1, NNC1G and NDR1, adds more new forms: NAR1, NN3, NR2, NM1, NM2, ND2A, ND4, ND5, ND8, NN2, NN6, NN8, ND2B, ND7, NN7, NN8C and NSC1
• converts company types for Hong Kong companies
• adds optional items on Presentor’s Section to Common System Settings