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Credit control teams trust the register, but concentrated influence remains easy to miss.
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Credit control teams trust the register, but concentrated influence remains easy to miss. As of 31 July 2026, RecoupIQ’s director-centrality analysis found 289 directors active on 10 or more live UK company boards. The reading uses Companies House, UK public filing records and counts simultaneous active UK board seats per director. That matters because the post-ECCTA clean-up of the register is already behind us, not ahead. Mandatory director identity verification arrived on 18 November
“Identity verification will make it harder for people to use Companies House to facilitate economic crime, and will improve the accuracy of data on the register.”, Companies House, UK Companies House (ECCTA 2023 identity-verification guidance), in the Identity verification at Companies House, Guidance (2024-11-15). The standout cohort is the 289 directors on 10 or more live boards at once. For a creditor, that degree of overlap is a cue to read group structures, recent appointments and filing history more closely.
“A small cohort can shape many company decisions at once, so creditors should treat dense board overlap as a prompt for sharper screening.”, Alex Vasile, founder of RecoupIQ.
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