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UK Insolvency Watch

A real-time view of UK insolvency activity, drawn from our intelligence platform. The same feeds we use to screen every facility we underwrite — refreshed every day, available here for anyone to see.

Last 7 days
UK insolvency notices recorded
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Aggregated and analysed by ABL Risk Intelligence.
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Most common notice types — last 30 days

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What the numbers mean

Every notice in the count above is a moment when a UK business or individual has formally entered insolvency, or moved to a new stage in proceedings already underway.

On their own, the headline numbers tell you about the broader weather — whether more businesses are failing this week than last, and which kinds of insolvency are most common. That matters if you're lending into the UK market.

But the real value isn't in the totals. It's in knowing whether any one of those notices touches a debtor, a customer, a director or a counterparty in your own book.

  • 01
    Companies winding up Resolutions for winding-up and appointments of liquidators — businesses that have just decided, or just been forced, to shut down and pay creditors what they can.
  • 02
    Bankruptcy orders Individuals — often directors and sole traders — placed into bankruptcy by the court. A useful signal when checking director histories on a new facility.
  • 03
    Notices to creditors Procedural notices issued during ongoing insolvencies. Each one is a deadline for creditors to act, and an opportunity to spot exposure you didn't know you had.

What we do with the data

Every notice that comes in is checked against the names already on file across our client work — directors, debtors, creditors, counterparties.

If a name matches, our team and our clients know about it the same day. That turns the public record from background noise into a live monitoring service for the deals our clients actually care about.

It's the same engine that sits behind every report, dashboard and committee pack we produce. The only difference here is we've turned a small slice of it outward, so the market can see how we work.

  • 01
    Portfolio screening Every name in a lender's book is matched against new insolvency notices the moment they're filed. No quarterly checks, no missed signals.
  • 02
    Director histories Bankruptcy orders and prior failed appointments surface automatically when we screen a new facility — including the ones the directors didn't put in the paperwork.
  • 03
    Sector early-warning Spikes in insolvency activity in a particular sector tell us where to look harder, and which of our clients' books to flag for review.

Don't Wait for the Notice to Land.

Run this same screening over your debtor book, your director list and your wider counterparty exposure. Know the moment something moves — not weeks later, when the loss is already on your balance sheet.