CSA Expert 6.6.0 - 09 December, 2025
- Extended “Correspondence address” option to corporate members of Hong Kong companies.
- E-Forms can be generated through the Mass Production function of “Change of Entity’s Particulars” and “Change of Company / Business Address”.
- Removed the “note numbering symbol” that previously appeared beside the “Presentor’s Reference” section on all specified forms.
- Re-organized the standard format file folder structure for local statutory forms in the system.
CSA Expert 6.5.2 - 09 July, 2025
- Added and updated the forms, including NAR1, for the new company re-domiciliation regime.
- Added confirmation documents and MS-Excel spreadsheets for the filing of the BVI’s Register of Members and Beneficial Ownership Information.
- Not included the Registrar’s name on the cover page of the Articles of Association as advised by CR.
CSA Expert 6.5.1 - 07 April, 2025
- Revised form NSC2 and added new forms NSC22 and NSC23 for the new regime permitting listed companies to keep the shares bought back to be held as treasury shares.
- Added electronic submission of NNC1, NNC2, NR1, NSC1 and ND2A.
- Updated the activation documents of Samoa Companies.
- Updated the Notes on relevant Registers and the First Board Minutes for BVI Companies.
- De-selected the ceased significant controller after the end of a period of 6 years from the cessation date.
CSA Expert 6.5 - 05 February, 2025
- Released e-forms of NNC1 and NAR1.
- Updated BVI first board meeting/ resolution.
- Updated the filing due dates in the notes to the Register of Directors for BVI companies.
CSA Expert 6.4 - 03 October, 2024
- Revised the content and presentation of the Entity Comprehensive Report and Capacity Comprehensive Report.
- Updated BVI first board meeting/ resolution.
CSA Expert 6.3 - 21 June, 2024
- Revised Form NR2.
- Modified Registers to new look.
- Re-designed Client Comprehensive Reports.
CSA Expert 6.2 - 13 May, 2024
- Add remaining revised forms to “Job” and “Blank Forms”, except NR2.
CSA Expert 6.1 - 28 February, 2024
- Release revised specified forms NAR1, NN3, NDR1, IR1263, NNC2, NR1, ND2B, MPI, PS1, PS2, PS3 and AFLC.
- Update Statutory Registers for Hong Kong Companies.
CSA Expert 6.0 - 21 December, 2023
- 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.
CSA Expert 5.1.2 - 4 September, 2023
- 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)
CSA Expert 5.1.0 - 4 May 2023
- Update samples of model Articles of Association to facilitate fully virtual and hybrid general meeting.
- Update blank form PS3 and PS4.
CSA Expert 5.0.2 - 15 March 2023
- 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.
CSA Expert 5.0.1 - 15 November 2022
- Further update the Register of Directors for HK companies.
- Add correspondence address to individual member.
CSA Expert 5.0 - 12 October 2022
- 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.
CSA Expert 4.1.0 - 15 July 2022
- Update minutes, registers for offshore companies.
- Governance Committee Member can be Capacity or Entity.
CSA Expert 4.0.1 - 20 September 2021
- Update e-forms which are to be used from 25 October 2021.
CSA Expert 4.0.0 - 10 August 2021
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- 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.
CSA Expert 3.6.5 - 3 June 2021
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.6.4 - 3 February 2021
- Add Register of Beneficial Owners for Seychelles Companies.
- Update IRD Form IRC1263.
CSA Expert 3.6.3 - 31 August 2020
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.6.2 - 27 February 2020
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.6.1 - 13 December 2019
- 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”.
CSA Expert 3.6.0 - 1 July 2019
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.5.7 - 31 January 2019
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.5.6 - 30 August 2018
- Blank forms, company types and capacities for Open-ended Fund Company.
CSA Expert 3.5.5 - 25 July 2018
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.5.4 - 3 April 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.
CSA Expert 3.5.3 - 16 March 2018
- 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”).
CSA Expert 3.5.2 - 28 February 2018
- Amend Summary of SC to exclude nominees.
- Separate two types of Additional Matters – for company and SC/LE.
- Update NR2.
CSA Expert 3.5.1 - 7 February 2018
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.5.0 - 21 December 2017
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.4.1 - 6 February 2017
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.4.0 - 11 January 2017
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.
CSA Expert 3.3.4a - 2 June 2016
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.
CSA Expert 3.3.4 - 2 June 2016
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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.
CSA Expert 3.3.3b - 2 June 2016
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.
CSA Expert 3.3.3a - 2 June 2016
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.
CSA Expert 3.3.3 - 29 April 2016
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.
CSA Expert 3.3.2 - 29 April 2016
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.3.1 - 2 February 2016
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.3.0 - 3 September 2015
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.2.4 - 26 February 2015
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.2.3 - 13 January 2015
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.2.2 - 16 December 2014
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.2.1-R - 1 August 2014
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.2.0 - 1 August 2014
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.1.6 - 9 June 2014
- Change default folder for the files generated by “Disclosure of Company Name”.
- More options for searching an address in “Disclosure of Company Name”.
CSA Expert 3.1.5 - 30 May 2014
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.1.4 - 23 April 2014
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.1.3 - 28 March 2014
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.1.2 - 18 March 2014
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.1.1 - 5 March 2014
- 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.
CSA Expert 3.1.0 - 28 February 2014
- 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.
