Answers one question, and only that question: was this entity present in the register extract you captured, on the date you captured it? You paste the extract, name which ESMA register it came from, give the entity identifier and give the capture date. The page digests the pasted bytes exactly as pasted, searches them, and writes a single dated sentence you can quote.
Presence as of a date, never authorisationPaste-in only, zero lookupsNo clock: the retrieval date is yours
🔒 All inputs are processed locally in your browser. No data is transmitted. Do not enter real personal data — use synthetic or anonymised inputs only.
What This Does and Does Not Prove
A match proves a line carrying your identifier was in the text you pasted. It is not authorisation, not licensing, not registration in good standing, and not a statement about today. A no-match proves absence from that same pasted text and nothing more: a partial page, a filtered export, the wrong register, or an identifier the register spells differently would each read the same way. Nothing here proves the extract came from ESMA, was unmodified, or was captured on the date you supplied. The digest pins the bytes that were checked; it does not attest where they came from.
This page never fetches anything, ships no copy of either register, and has no clock. retrieval_date is your input because a machine clock would date the run rather than the capture, and those are different facts.
The Four Facts the Verdict Is Built From
Names the register in the verdict sentence. No default is inferred.
LEI or register ID, compared as a literal string against the extract's own cells.
ISO YYYY-MM-DD. The date you captured the extract, never read from a clock.
Free text recording where the extract came from. Echoed into the receipt, never checked.
Digested exactly as pasted. Quoted fields may contain the delimiter, line breaks and doubled quotes. Oversized extracts are refused rather than truncated.
Header name or a 0-based index. Leave blank to compare every cell. An unresolvable column is raised, never quietly widened back to an any-cell search.