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Analysis and insights on UK companies, corporate governance, and business data.
Analysis and insights on UK companies, corporate governance, and business data.
The People with Significant Control regime turned ten this month. A decade of disclosure produced a vast, free-to-access dataset — and an awkwardly large compliance gap that ECCTA's verification regime is now trying to close.
By Helen Raines
The Companies Act 2006 imposes seven duties on directors but no cap on how many companies one person may run. As ECCTA's identity verification rolls out, here is what other jurisdictions do, what the UK register actually shows, and why a statutory cap is the wrong fix.
By Daniel Mensah
Mandatory identity verification for directors and PSCs began on 8 April 2026. Two weeks in, we look at the verification routes, ACSP pricing, early rejection patterns and what existing directors should do before their confirmation statement falls due.
By Helen Raines
Twelve months after the biggest uplift to UK company size thresholds in two decades, we map who moved category, who lost an auditor, and what the public register will and won't show in 2026 and 2027.
By Helen Raines