Risika
Risika is a Danish credit and risk management platform for B2B teams. It rates company creditworthiness, monitors customers and suppliers for change, and enforces credit policies automatically inside the ERP, CRM and in-house systems a company already runs.
What is Risika?
Risika is a credit and risk management platform published by Risika A/S in Copenhagen, which describes itself on its privacy page as an authorized credit reference agency. It is built for B2B organisations that grant payment terms and are tired of assessing customers by hand, from scattered sources, with no warning when something changes and with Finance and Sales working from different information.
The offer comes in three lines. Risika Platform is the cockpit: search a company, read its score, put it under monitoring, configure the credit policy, all in one place. The publisher states that assessments cover more than 300 million companies across 190 countries, using the same assessment method from one country to the next and returning recommendations in the currency you choose. Risika Connect™ pushes that assessment into the ERP or CRM already in place, so nobody moves data by hand. Risika Data delivers raw data instead, over a REST API or SFTP/FTP, in JSON, XML, CSV or a custom format, at frequencies ranging from real time to weekly.
At the centre sits the Risika score™, a predictive model of financial distress rated from 1 to 10 and colour-coded like a traffic light. Its make-up is published: 25 data points, of which 8 are fixed financial ratios and 17 are adaptive variables selected by machine learning. From that score and the company's equity, the platform derives a recommended credit limit, and the help centre sets a fixed rule of no more than 90 days of credit. Around that core sit modules: Credit Automator for automated credit policies, Risk Insights, a fraud module, Document Intelligence — which combines OCR with advanced language models to turn financial PDFs into structured data, flagging uncertain values for human review — plus Credit Request and Tailored Prospects. Risika MCP v1.1.0 exposes 55 tools to an AI assistant, split across six families.
The data comes from named official registers — CVR in Denmark, Brønnøysundregistrene in Norway, Bolagsverket in Sweden, with cvr.dk, tinglysning.dk and statstidende.dk added by the privacy policy — and international reach comes from a Coface partnership organised into five country zones. Risika claims more than 4 million transactions assessed automatically every day, over 3,500 professional users and 50% less time spent on manual handling; these are the publisher's own figures, not independent measurements.
What it does
- Assess the creditworthiness of a customer or a supplier with the Risika score™ and a recommended credit limit
- Monitor a portfolio of companies automatically and get an alert on any change: accounts, management, bankruptcy
- Enforce a credit policy automatically and traceably across the whole organisation
- Detect fraud and financial crime indicators before committing commercially
- Enrich CRM leads and accounts automatically with credit data
- Extract structured data from financial reports delivered as PDFs
- Query company data in plain language from an AI assistant through the MCP server
When to use Risika / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Risika is the right fit.
When to use Risika
- Finance and credit management teams in Nordic B2B companies that grant payment terms
- Organisations that want a written credit policy actually applied, instead of a PDF nobody follows
- Sales teams that want to know a prospect's creditworthiness at first contact rather than at signature
- Buyers and procurement managers monitoring the default risk of their suppliers
- Technical teams that want to pipe credit data into their own systems through an API, SFTP or an MCP server
When not to use Risika
- Private individuals: clause 1.4 of the terms reserves the service to businesses
- Anyone who wants to sign up alone and start straight away: the contract goes through a signed commercial offer
- Anyone who needs to know the price before speaking to a salesperson, as no amount is published
- Anyone assessing private individuals rather than companies, since the tool works on company data
- Anyone looking for a short monthly commitment: the site announces mainly annual contracts renewed for 12 months
How to use Risika
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Start from the website: there is no self-service sign-up, so the entry points are the Book demo page or the contact form
- Talk through your needs, receive an offer from Risika and sign it — under clauses 2.1 and 2.2 the contract only exists once the offer is signed
- Ask for the free trial or Proof of Concept if you need one: clause 2.3 has it activated on request for a period stated in the activation message, and the pricing FAQ notes it is offered after a first meeting and depending on needs
- Log in to the platform at dashboard.risika.dk: search a company, read its score, put it under monitoring, then set up your credit policy
- Plug-and-play route: connect the ERP or CRM you already use — the site says most standard integrations are live in under an hour
- API route: create an account, collect the API key from the dashboard, test against the sandbox, then switch to production, the three steps set out on the API page
- Authenticate with OAuth 2.0 or an API key against the base URL api.risika.dk/latest/, within a limit of 1,000 calls per minute, and subscribe to webhooks if you need push updates
- Use the official SDKs where they fit: Python (pip install risika), JavaScript/Node (npm install @risika/api) or the PHP Composer package
- MCP route: download the risika-mcp.mcpb extension, double-click it in Claude Desktop (or drag it into Settings then Extensions), click Install and paste your Risika token, which is kept in the system keychain — for Cursor, Windsurf, Cline or Claude Code, unzip the .mcpb and point the MCP configuration at src/index.js with Node.js 18 or newer, while Visual Studio Code uses a servers plus stdio variant; a PDF install guide is provided
- Automate decisions with Credit Automator: build the rules in the drag-and-drop builder, test them before go-live, then let the system decide — approved, declined with a reason, or sent to manual review
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Real depth on Nordic data, drawn from named official registers: CVR, Brønnøysundregistrene and Bolagsverket
- The scoring methodology is published in detail in the help centre — unusual in a sector the About page itself calls a world of black boxes
- Genuine international coverage through the Coface partnership, with five country zones listed by name
- A wide choice of technical routes: platform, ready-made integrations, documented REST API, SFTP, and an MCP server for AI assistants
- Named integrations with the ERP and CRM systems actually used in the Nordics: Business Central, Uniconta, e-conomic, Visma, Tripletex, Billy, SuperOffice
- Unlimited users on both plans, which avoids per-seat billing
- Quantified technical commitments: 1,000 calls per minute, a 99.9% SLA, a sandbox and API versioning
Cons
- No public pricing: no amount, no range, not even an order of magnitude on any page — the pricing page devotes a FAQ entry to justifying that choice
- No self-service: a demonstration and then a signed offer come before any use
- The free trial is conditional, offered after a first meeting and depending on needs, rather than available on demand
- The Manual plan is limited to a single Nordic country and 1,200 searches per year, and access outside the Nordics is an add-on on both plans
- No data hosting country or region is published, and no sub-processor list is available
- ISO 27001 appears in a single FAQ answer, in the form "we follow GDPR and ISO 27001 standards": that is a declared alignment with the standard, never a claimed certification
- Editorial inconsistencies on the site: the structured data on every page names the publisher Risika ApS while the footer, terms, privacy policy and register say Risika A/S; the declared og:image returns a 404; several English links point to Danish paths; and one FAQ answer mentions Professional+ plans that do not exist in the plan table
Pricing & Plans
There is no free plan, and no price is published. No amount, range or order of magnitude appears anywhere on the site, in any language, and the pricing page devotes a FAQ entry to that choice ("Why don't you just show the prices?"). The publisher states that the price depends on four factors — the volume of searches and monitoring, the countries covered, the systems in which Risika is to be accessed, and any additional features — and that it builds a business case from the customer's own figures before quoting. Contracts are mainly annual, with no cancellation fee, and renew automatically for a further twelve months unless written notice is given one month before expiry. Invoicing takes place when the contract is concluded and covers the whole period; payment is net 8 days by bank transfer, by invoice for annual contracts, with tailored terms for large accounts. Prices are quoted exclusive of VAT and are not increased during the contract period. Volume discounts are offered to large organisations and on annual commitments, and additional searches can be purchased beyond the 1,200 per year included in the Manual plan. A free trial or Proof of Concept exists, but it is granted on request after a first meeting rather than started on demand.
- credit management platform
- unlimited users
- automatic monitoring
- credit reports as PDFs
- email support
- access to one Nordic country and 1
- 200 searches or monitorings per year. Advanced credit policy
- plug-and-play integration
- everything in Manual
- plus full Nordic access (DK
- SE
- NO and FI)
- one ERP
- CRM or API integration
- the advanced built-in credit policy
- a choice of Risk Insights or the fraud module
- specific integrations
- on-premise deployment and flexible pricing. Risika Data and Document Intelligence are described as typically falling under this kind of enterprise agreement.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Risika handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR implementation is documented in concrete terms. The publisher is established in Denmark, inside the European Union, so no Article 27 representative is required or named. An external data protection officer is appointed, reachable at the same address as the general contact, with initial complaints directed to dpo@risika.com. Data subjects may request access, rectification, erasure and portability in writing to contact@risika.com, and the policy names Datatilsynet (Borgergade 28, 1300 København K, dr@datatilsynet.dk, +45 33 19 32 00) as the route for complaints. The integrations FAQ states that Risika follows GDPR and ISO 27001 standards — a declared alignment, not a certification — and that all integrations use encrypted communication. A knowledge-centre article explains the GDPR and points to the Danish Data Protection Act, which supplements it for credit bureaus. The privacy policy shows a last update of 19 August 2021.
Who owns the data?
Risika keeps ownership of its services. Clause 10.3 grants the customer a licence to use them and expressly transfers no rights, while clause 10.2 places the services under Risika's copyright and forbids removing or altering rights notices. Access is non-exclusive, tied to the subscription and to the agreed number of users, and cannot be extended to third parties without a separate agreement. In the other direction, clause 10.4 has the customer grant Risika and its suppliers a worldwide licence over uploaded material and all customer data, solely to perform the contract, with a warranty that it infringes no third-party rights. Risika describes itself as a reseller of publicly available data and is the controller for its credit-reference activity.
Reuse rights
The customer's rights are those of a licensee: the data may be used within the subscription and by the agreed users, but not passed to third parties without a separate agreement. On personal data, the privacy policy sets a legal basis field by field — legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f)) for contact forms and social media, performance of the contract (Article 6(1)(b)) for customers and job applications, consent (Article 6(1)(a)) for the newsletter and surveys. The credit-reference activity itself runs under an authorisation issued by the Danish Data Protection Authority on 17 May 2018, on the basis of section 20(1) of the Danish Data Protection Act, with credit data drawn from named public sources: cvr.dk, tinglysning.dk and statstidende.dk. Data subjects are notified in writing when company information is disclosed to customers. Recipients are limited to lawyers, accountants and authorities, alongside the credit summaries supplied to authorised customers; processors are described only as security-accredited, with no list published. Clause 6.2 makes the customer and Risika each a controller in their own right, so no data processing agreement is required unless a specific Article 26 or Article 28 arrangement is agreed. Access to beneficial owner data is confined to competent authorities, entities with anti-money-laundering obligations (including Finanstilsynet-regulated entities subject to know-your-customer duties) and anyone able to demonstrate a legitimate interest. Nothing on the site indicates that customer data feeds model training — the only machine learning described is what builds the Risika score™ from public financial data — but the publisher gives no explicit commitment on the point either.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Risika publishes nothing about where data is hosted. No hosting country or region appears on the site: there is no trust page and no security page, and neither the privacy policy nor the terms name a data centre, a region or a cloud provider. No sub-processor list is published either — the privacy policy says only that processors are security-accredited. The one related statement is in the integrations FAQ, which says all integrations use encrypted communication. For completeness: a network check shows the public website resolving to an Amazon Web Services address in Frankfurt, Germany, but that describes how the marketing site is served, not where customer data is processed, and it should not be read as a hosting declaration. What can be stated is jurisdictional rather than physical: the publisher is a Danish company, its credit-reference activity operates under an authorisation from the Danish Data Protection Authority, and the terms are governed by Danish law. Anyone with a data residency requirement will need to obtain a written answer from Risika.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Risika.
- In January 2026 a CyberNews article linked Risika's name to a possible leak of Swedish data. Risika published a statement on 13 January 2026 saying that the data concerned does not belong to it, is neither stored on nor accessible from its systems, and that the article itself places the Elasticsearch cluster with an unidentified third party; it announced a forensic review and cooperation with the authorities. This is the publisher's own position, reported here as such.
- A credit assessment remains decision support, not a verdict: clause 12.2 of the terms states that the accuracy of the information cannot be guaranteed, and clause 12.1 that use is at the customer's own risk.
- Access to beneficial owner data is conditional on a legitimate interest that the customer must establish and document itself (clause 7). Unauthorised use exposes the customer to fines, suspension of service or legal action, and Risika provides no legal advice on the point.
- Automatic renewal: the contract renews for an identical period unless written notice is given one month before expiry.
- Liability is capped at the total paid over the previous twelve months, with a liability floor of DKK 10,000, and excludes intent and gross negligence.
- The privacy policy shows a last update of 19 August 2021, five years before this review.
- Clause 6.1 of the terms points the privacy policy to https://risika.dk/da/privacy — an address on the publisher's other domain, in Danish, linked from an English page.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Effort depends on the route. There is no self-service start: a demonstration and a signed offer come first. Using the platform on its own needs no technical skill, and Risika stresses that no IT department is needed for plug-and-play integrations, most of which it says go live in under an hour. Credit Automator is a no-code drag-and-drop rule builder a finance team can run itself. A custom API integration is developer work — API key, sandbox, production — with SDKs provided. MCP is one click on Claude Desktop; other clients need manual unzipping, a config file and Node.js 18.
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Behind Risika
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Frequently asked questions
Does Risika publish its prices?
Is there a free trial?
Which plans are available?
Which countries are covered?
Is there an API?
Can Risika be used from an AI assistant?
Which integrations are available?
How is the Risika score™ calculated?
Do I need to sign a GDPR data processing agreement?
Can private individuals use the service?
Should you pick Risika?
Risika is a deliberately narrow tool: B2B credit management, with real depth in the Nordics and worldwide reach borrowed from a partnership with Coface. Its strength is that it does not stop at a rating. The Risika score™ comes with a recommended credit limit, monitoring that tells you when something moves, and a credit policy that is actually enforced — in the platform, in the ERP or CRM, or through the API — rather than written down and ignored.
Three doors are open depending on how mature the buyer is: the platform for teams who want a screen, ready-made integrations for those who want the answer inside the system they already use, and raw data by API or SFTP for those who would rather build their own. The AI angle is real but bounded: machine learning selects part of the score's variables, Document Intelligence pairs OCR with language models to read financial PDFs, and a 55-tool MCP server opens the data to AI assistants.
The trade-offs are commercial rather than technical. Nothing is priced publicly, there is no self-service, the trial is granted after a meeting, and contracts are mainly annual with automatic renewal. Data hosting is not disclosed and no sub-processor list exists — worth raising early if that matters to you. And the assessment remains decision support: the terms state plainly that accuracy cannot be guaranteed and that use is at the customer's own risk.
Worth the detour for finance, credit, sales and procurement teams in Nordic B2B that extend payment terms and need one defensible source. Not for consumers, not for anyone assessing individuals rather than companies, and not for buyers who need a price before they will take a call. The publisher is Risika A/S, based in Copenhagen, CVR 37677892.
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