European corporate insolvency tracker

New corporate insolvency proceedings opened each month in Europe, by country, counted from the official gazettes and registers. Updated 10 October 2026 with data to September 2026. Corporate debtors only; personal insolvency is never counted. Only months where a country's collection was complete are shown; every other month is marked "not covered".

Latest month by country

France 4,386 (September 2026, -3% on a year earlier); Germany 1,877 (September 2026, +52% on a year earlier); United Kingdom 2,004 (September 2026, +7% on a year earlier); Denmark 704 (September 2026, +4% on a year earlier); Sweden 843 (September 2026); Finland 276 (September 2026); Netherlands 390 (September 2026).

New proceedings per month

Month	France	Germany	United Kingdom	Denmark	Sweden	Finland	Netherlands
September 2026	4,386	1,877	2,004	704	843	276	390
August 2026	1,952	1,684	1,668	290	464	225	312
July 2026	4,981	2,125	2,185	245	557	215	254
June 2026	4,785	1,550	2,045	380	930	224	354
May 2026	4,274	1,248	2,129	346	852	245	273
April 2026	5,463	1,427	1,911	367	802	not covered	not covered
March 2026	4,775	1,695	2,485	452	877	not covered	not covered
February 2026	5,192	1,235	1,967	377	786	not covered	not covered
January 2026	4,284	1,094	1,449	370	685	not covered	not covered
December 2025	5,662	1,397	2,063	448	not covered	not covered	not covered
November 2025	4,793	1,260	1,652	872	not covered	not covered	not covered
October 2025	5,830	1,422	2,186	828	not covered	not covered	not covered
September 2025	4,529	1,231	1,877	674	not covered	not covered	not covered
August 2025	2,306	1,026	1,977	297	not covered	not covered	not covered
July 2025	5,294	1,281	2,287	357	not covered	not covered	not covered
June 2025	4,557	not covered	2,043	427	not covered	not covered	not covered
May 2025	4,991	not covered	2,124	489	not covered	not covered	not covered
April 2025	4,748	not covered	not covered	443	not covered	not covered	not covered
March 2025	5,340	not covered	not covered	534	not covered	not covered	not covered
February 2025	5,100	not covered	not covered	388	not covered	not covered	not covered
January 2025	4,305	not covered	not covered	449	not covered	not covered	not covered
December 2024	not covered	not covered	not covered	387	not covered	not covered	not covered
November 2024	not covered	not covered	not covered	785	not covered	not covered	not covered
October 2024	not covered	not covered	not covered	842	not covered	not covered	not covered

What is counted

One new proceeding is counted once, in the calendar month its opening was published or decided, depending on the country's source. The rule differs by country because each gazette and register publishes differently, and it is stated below. Corporate debtors only (legal entities), never sole traders or individuals. These are notices as published by the official gazettes and registers, not a statistic of any statistics office, and they can differ from official statistics.

• France: Collective-proceedings judgments published in the BODACC, opening judgments only (liquidation, redressement judiciaire, sauvegarde), one per company and type per month, counted in the month of publication. Complete from January 2025; earlier months are not covered.
• Germany: Insolvency cases first published in the national insolvency portal, counted once in the month of the first notice. The portal does not type its notices, so this counts new cases published, not openings by court; files from earlier years are excluded. Collection began in January 2025 and the first six months are not published, because notices of proceedings opened before collection would be counted as new.
• United Kingdom: Creditors' voluntary liquidations, winding-up orders (compulsory liquidation) and administrations, from the Gazette, one per company and type, counted in the month of the first notice. Members' voluntary (solvent) liquidations are not counted. The Gazette series starts in April 2025; April is not published.
• Denmark: Bankruptcy (konkurs) proceedings, one per proceeding, in the month of the bankruptcy decree. The history is complete. Contains CVR data (Erhvervsstyrelsen), CC BY 4.0.
• Sweden: Bankruptcy (konkurs), company reorganisation (företagsrekonstruktion) and composition negotiations (ackordsförhandling), one per company and type per month. Proceedings that had already ended when collection began are missing, so earlier months are understated; 2025 and before are not published.
• Finland: Bankruptcies and corporate restructurings registered in the Trade Register, one per company and type per month. The register lists companies currently in a proceeding, so a month is published only in the five months after it closes and is not revised afterwards; the series begins when the tracker was first published.
• Netherlands: Bankruptcies (faillissement) and suspensions of payment (surseance van betaling) of legal entities, one per case, in the month of the court's decision; a suspension converted into a bankruptcy counts as both. The register drops a case six months after it ends, so a month is published only in the five months after it closes and is not revised afterwards; the series begins when the tracker was first published.

Not covered

The insolvency API serves twelve markets (FR, DE, GB, AT, CH, NO, FI, US, NL, DK, HR, SE). The tracker publishes a country only where a complete monthly series can be defended; the others are not covered.

• Austria: Not covered. The Austrian source is a rolling list of current edicts, not dated by opening, and has gaps in its collection; new proceedings per month cannot be derived.
• Switzerland: Not covered. The official gazette (SHAB) mixes the stages of a bankruptcy (provisional notice, call to creditors, closure) and each notice is not typed in our data, so openings cannot be separated; collection also began in 2026.
• Norway: Not covered. The register shows companies currently in bankruptcy; proceedings that have ended are no longer listed, so monthly counts are understated and cannot be confirmed as complete.
• Croatia: Not covered. Court decisions are held only for companies still on the commercial register, so earlier months are understated by an unknown amount.
• United States: Not covered. Federal bankruptcy filings of businesses are collected only where the public court-records project (CourtListener/RECAP) holds the docket, a small fraction of filings, and collection stopped in March 2026.

Cite this page: Prometiam, European corporate insolvency tracker, updated 10 October 2026, https://www.prometiam.com/insolvency-tracker. Free to cite with attribution and a link. Contains CVR data (Erhvervsstyrelsen), CC BY 4.0.

The notices behind these counts are available from the API: GET /insolvency/search returns each notice with its company, date and link, and POST /insolvency/check screens a list of counterparties. Insolvency notices are corporate only, twelve markets.

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