# December 29, 2022 — Payment geolocation and API improvements

We added information about the geolocation of payments based on the IP address and created metrics to monitor the proportion of payments with a foreign origin (which are usually associated with anonymization services). In the API, we added the new `merchant.country` field, which works together with the customer's geolocation, and we fixed the handling to allow null values in non-required fields (`device.ip_address`, `device.headers`, and `merchant.category_code`).