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Late payment and recovery work often turns on who sits across connected boards.
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Late payment and recovery work often turns on who sits across connected boards. As of 6 August 2026, RecoupIQ’s director-influence analysis identifies 289 directors active on 10 or more UK boards at the same time. Using Companies House records, the model turns a broad network into a screening list for accountants, insolvency practitioners and litigation funders. That matters more after the 18 November 2025 identity-verification deadline under ECCTA, which sharpened attention on director records and control links. The official Identity verification at Companies House, Guidance says cleaner register data should make abuse harder and improve accuracy. For creditors, better records mean faster conflict checks before an engagement, claim, or funding decision now.
“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 immediate point is practical. A list of 289 heavily connected directors is small enough to screen at file opening, not after a problem emerges.
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“When one director appears across many live boards, conflict checks and cross-case links become easier to test early.”, Alex Vasile, founder of RecoupIQ. For UK SMEs supplying companies linked to these directors, the practical step is to screen customers, guarantors, and introducers before offering terms. Continued monitoring of director centrality in the coming weeks will show whether the pool changes as verification data beds in. RecoupIQ explains the measure in its methodology and logs calibration in its audit ledger. Used properly, the signal helps credit, restructuring and disputes teams focus scarce time where board overlap is highest. Methodology + model calibration: recoup-iq.tech/methodology · recoup-iq.tech/audit-our-numbers. RecoupIQ Pro monitors this signal across your debtor portfolio: recoup-iq.tech/pricing
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