Finland
In Finland, the company registry is the Trade Register, searchable free in the PRH’s Virre service.
- Official company register
- Trade Register (Kaupparekisteri), Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH)
- Free online search
- Yes
- Company identifier
- Business ID (Y-tunnus): seven digits, a hyphen and a check digit, e.g. 1234567-8
- Who can see beneficial owners
- Legitimate interest
- Data access for developers
- Free API
- Company search
- virre.fi
- Checked on
Search Finnish companies free in Virre, the Finnish Patent and Registration Office’s service, where the Trade Register extract has been free to download since 27 August 2026. Financial statements and articles of association cost €5.02 each. Beneficial owner data is available only for anti-money-laundering purposes, to company representatives, the owners themselves and authorized professionals such as banks, auditors and attorneys. Companies are identified by the Business ID (Y-tunnus), for example 1234567-8.
- Region
- Europe
- Run by
- Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH)
- Registry website
- prh.fi
- Visible for free
- Basic details and the Trade Register extract (current registered details), free to download in Virre; basic company data (name, Business ID) in YTJ
- Paid documents and fees
- Trade Register extract free in Virre; ordered paper extract €15 plus €6.50 invoicing fee and €5.50 postage; translated Trade Register extract €10.67; articles of association (rules) €5.02; financial statement €5.02; notification documents €5.02
- Beneficial ownership register
- Beneficial owner information in the Trade Register (Beneficial Owner Information Service)
- Beneficial ownership access in detail
- Access is limited to purposes set out in the Finnish Anti-Money Laundering Act: the company's own representatives, the beneficial owners themselves, and authorized professionals such as attorneys, auditors, persons authorized by authorities, banks and financial firms, and real-estate agents.
- Beneficial ownership register website
- prh.fi
- API or data service
- Free: https://avoindata.prh.fi/en
- Search interface languages
- Finnish, Swedish, English
- What to know before a KYB check
- Virre was relaunched on 27 August 2026; basic details and Trade Register extracts are now free, while financial statements still cost €5.02. The beneficial owner service login is in Finnish and Swedish, and extracts download in English, Finnish or Swedish.
- Sources
Page URL PRH - Virre Information Service revamped (announcement) https://www.prh.fi/en/presentation_and_duties/uutislistaus/announcements/2026/virreinformationservicerevamped-easieraccesstoregistereddetailsofcompaniesandfoundations.html PRH - Trade Register extract https://www.prh.fi/en/companiesandorganisations/tietopalvelut/trade_register_extract.html PRH - Virre price list https://www.prh.fi/Virre_price_list PRH - Beneficial owner extract https://www.prh.fi/en/companiesandorganisations/tietopalvelut/beneficial-owner-extract.html PRH - PRH open data https://www.prh.fi/en/companiesandorganisations/tietopalvelut/prhopendata.html YTJ - Business ID https://www.ytj.fi/en/index/businessid.html e-Justice - Business registers: Finland https://e-justice.europa.eu/topics/registers-business-insolvency-land/business-registers-eu-countries/fi_en - Verification
- Some fields unverified
Questions
Is a Finnish Trade Register extract free?
What does a Finnish Business ID look like?
Who can see beneficial owners in Finland?
Sources: each listing is compiled from the registry’s own website, the government body that runs it, official fee schedules and legislation, and the EU e-Justice portal. Every source is linked on the listing with the date it was checked. How we compile this reference