From Passive to Active: The Revolution at UK Companies House

STR: Suspicious Transaction Report · May 1, 2026 · 28m

The long-derided corporate registry is finally coming into its own as a central player in confronting the UK's role in global illicit finance.

When the UK government opened its company register – Companies House – to public scrutiny in 2015, campaigners and journalists cheered. But as everyone dug into the data this revealed, the extent to which the register had become a central tool in global corruption, kleptocracy and criminality became clear; and the fact that Companies House had almost no powers to scrutinise, verify or exploit the data it had gathered confirmed everyone's worst fears, a…