On 1 August 2022, a new Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) was launched at Companies House pursuant to the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (ECTEA). In a nutshell, any overseas ...

The Economic Crime Act, which received Royal Assent on 15 March 2022, will require overseas entities that are owners or leaseholders of land in the UK to register at Companies House and provide ...

Over 11,000 UK firms have been struck off the Companies House register over the past year following a coordinated crackdown on corporate structures suspected of facilitating fraud, money laundering ...

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The UK government has announced changes to Companies House to stem business-related identity theft in the country. On Thursday, the government said that Companies House, the register for businesses in ...

Companies House will introduce a digital identity verification process for people wanting to register and run a company in the UK. The plans come as the central government body will be given new ...

from 18 November 2025, Directors and people with significant control (PSCs) of companies will need to verify their identities from November (Image credit: Pixabay) Companies House has said that from ...

Last week the National Economic Crime Centre claimed that “thousands of UK companies” had been removed from the Companies House register over the last year, following a crackdown. However, research by ...

The U.K. plans to change the corporate registration system to increase the transparency of company ownership and management information while protecting personal data to prevent fraud. Directors will ...

Thousands of UK companies have been removed from the Companies House register over the last year, following a crackdown on corporate entities believed to be enabling criminality in the UK and overseas ...