Tweaks to insolvency rules during the COVID-19 pandemic produced a strange phenomenon a recession without soaring company wind-up numbers. That’s all set to change.
Among the many good pieces of policy introduced during the pandemic was a very accommodating set of rules around insolvencies. It was very difficult indeed for a company to collapse in 2020, leading to the peculiar spectre of a recession without a lift in insolvencies.
But as the economy normalises, so do the rules. A rise in court-ordered wind-ups is lifting the rate of insolvencies, albeit not to the level that prevailed in 2019 not yet at least.
Note: the most recent data in this chart comes from the penultimate week of March, before JobK…
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