We are announcing today a major expansion of the liquidations database on Decree Risk. We have gone back through the Official Gazette and built out the database to include every liquidation announcement published since February 2013.
Decree Risk has until now been a forward-looking tool, reporting liquidations within hours of their announcement so that creditors can lodge their claims with the liquidator before the legal six-month window closes. It could not answer questions about liquidations that took place before Decree Risk was launched.
That matters most when cleaning up legacy receivables. An ageing debtor ledger almost always contains accounts belonging to companies that entered liquidation years ago, and there was no practical way to identify them other than working backwards through years of gazette issues by hand. With thirteen years of announcements now in the database, a finance or collections team can run an entire ledger against the full record in one pass, write off what is no longer recoverable, and act on any account that still falls within a claim period.
The historical records cover announcements published in the Official Gazette from February 2013 to the present, and are structured in the same way as the entries we publish daily.
They are searchable on Decree Risk alongside current announcements, and are also available through our liquidation section, which lets you download the liquidations published in each issue of the Official Gazette on an issue-by-issue basis. For organisations that work with the data in their own systems, the full record is also available through the Decree API, so an existing integration can now query thirteen years of announcements rather than recent ones alone.
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