UK Company Insolvency Alerts by RawTrader

New UK company insolvency cases, straight from the official Companies House API. Every creditors voluntary liquidation (CVL), members voluntary liquidation (MVL), compulsory liquidation, administration, CVA, moratorium and receivership registered at Companies House, with the company name, number, SIC codes, registered office and the insolvency practitioner firm's office.

Run it for the last 7 days, or schedule it in monitor mode and get only the cases that are new since your last run. No scraping, no browser, no Gazette pages and you don't need your own API key.

Mode	What you get
recent	Insolvency cases Companies House registered in the last N days (default 7), newest first
monitor	Only cases you have not received before. The actor remembers its stream position between runs, so a daily or hourly schedule gives you a clean alert feed

What you get for each case

• Company: number, name, status (liquidation, administration and so on), company type, incorporation date, jurisdiction
• Case: case type and readable label, case group (liquidation, administration, voluntary arrangement, receivership, moratorium), case number, start date and all case dates (wound up on, administration started on, petitioned on and so on), open or closed
• Practitioner firm: office address, role and appointment date of the acting insolvency practitioners. Individual practitioner names are left out
• Location and industry: registered office address, postcode, postcode area, UK region, SIC codes with descriptions
• Links: Companies House company page and insolvency page, plus the time Companies House published the case

Filter by case type, SIC code prefix (for example 41 for construction, 56 for food and drink) and registered office postcode prefix (for example M, LS1, EH). Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or pull it through the Apify API and webhooks.

Who uses it

• Debt collectors and credit controllers: know the day a customer enters liquidation or administration, so you can file your claim with the practitioner firm in time.
• Insolvency lawyers and practitioners: a daily list of new CVLs, compulsory liquidations and administrations by region and industry, for business development and market share tracking.
• Trade credit suppliers and wholesalers: check new insolvencies against your ledger and stop shipping on credit to failed accounts.
• Credit insurers, lenders and factoring firms: an early warning feed by SIC code and postcode.
• Asset buyers and turnaround investors: new administrations and liquidations in your sector, with the practitioner firm to contact.

Example input

{
  "mode": "recent",
  "daysBack": 7,
  "caseTypes": ["creditors-voluntary-liquidation", "compulsory-liquidation", "in-administration"],
  "postcodePrefixes": ["M", "LS", "B"],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Monitor mode, run on a daily schedule:

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "monitorName": "construction",
  "sicCodes": ["41", "42", "43"],
  "maxResults": 500
}

Example output

{
  "companyNumber": "05341356",
  "companyName": "ALTECH SOFTWARE LIMITED",
  "companyStatus": "liquidation",
  "companyStatusDetail": null,
  "companyType": "ltd",
  "jurisdiction": "england-wales",
  "incorporationDate": "2005-01-25",
  "caseType": "creditors-voluntary-liquidation",
  "caseTypeLabel": "Creditors voluntary liquidation (CVL)",
  "caseGroup": "liquidation",
  "caseNumber": "1",
  "caseStartDate": "2026-10-09",
  "caseStartDateType": "wound-up-on",
  "caseDates": [
    {
      "type": "wound-up-on",
      "date": "2026-10-09"
    }
  ],
  "caseOpen": true,
  "caseNotes": [],
  "insolvencyCasesOnFile": 1,
  "practitionerFirmAddress": "Staverton Court Staverton, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 0UX",
  "practitionerOffices": [
    {
      "officeAddress": "Staverton Court Staverton, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 0UX",
      "postcode": "GL51 0UX",
      "role": "practitioner",
      "appointedOn": "2026-10-09",
      "ceasedToActOn": null,
      "currentlyActing": true
    }
  ],
  "registeredOfficeAddress": "Staverton Court, Staverton, Cheltenham, GL51 0UX, United Kingdom",
  "locality": "Cheltenham",
  "postcode": "GL51 0UX",
  "postcodeArea": "GL",
  "region": "South West",
  "sicCodes": [
    "62012",
    "62020"
  ],
  "sicDescriptions": [
    "Business and domestic software development",
    "Information technology consultancy activities"
  ],
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-25T12:49:02",
  "streamTimepoint": 3706188,
  "companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05341356",
  "insolvencyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05341356/insolvency",
  "source": "Companies House Streaming API and Public Data API",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0"
}

How it works

1. The actor replays the Companies House insolvency cases stream from the right point in time and reads every insolvency case published in your window.
2. It keeps cases whose start date is recent (default within 90 days of publication), so old cases that were only edited are skipped, and drops closed cases unless you ask for them.
3. Each company is enriched from the Companies House company profile (name, status, SIC codes, registered office). Calls are throttled to stay under the Companies House limit of 600 requests per 5 minutes and back off on HTTP 429.
4. In monitor mode the stream position and the cases already sent are saved in a named key value store in your account, so the next run starts where the last one stopped.

A RUN_SUMMARY record in the default key value store shows the stream coverage (first and last event), counts, filters and requests used.

Good to know

• How far back: Companies House keeps roughly the last 10 to 14 days of the insolvency stream for replay. daysBack values beyond that return what Companies House still holds and the run summary says where coverage starts. For a complete history, run monitor mode on a schedule.
• Timing: cases appear when Companies House registers the filing, which is usually 1 to 3 weeks after the liquidation or administration started. caseStartDate is the legal start, publishedAt is when Companies House published it.
• Scottish cases often carry a note instead of practitioner details. That is how Companies House holds them.
• Companies only: no directors, officers, shareholders or PSC data are requested or returned, and practitioner personal names are removed.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.003 per insolvency case returned, plus the small Apify actor start event. Filtered out cases cost nothing. Set maxResults to cap the cost of a run.

Data source and licence

Companies House Streaming API (insolvency cases) and Companies House Public Data API (company profile). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This actor is not affiliated with Companies House.

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