Global business insights, clear in-depth reports

Uncover data on businesses in a few clicks

With a diverse & unique range of datapoints on UK businesses, the RFA platform uses various sources to enable its users to run UK and global credit checks.

  • Worldwide coverage
  • Market Leading Insolvency Score
  • Financial Analysis
  • Insolvent Creditors & Debtors Data
  • Rating & Event History
  • LinkedIn Integration
  • Ultimate Business Ownership
  • Credit Rating & Limits

And much more...

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Extensive Business Database

 

 

15

million businesses

9000

global users

120000

updates per day

25

years' experience in business intelligence

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Market Leading Insolvency Score

Understand the past, current and future health of a company

In just a few clicks get a complete understanding of the financial health of a business and their risk. 

Visualisations that enable you to gain an understanding of when and why a business has its rating. Access the entire business' financial history to see what effect events have had.

  • Entire History
  • Market Leading Insolvency Score
  • Over 9,000 global business users
  • 25 years' experience in business intelligence
Insolvency Creditor & Debtors

Uncover the bad debt that could affect your business

With insolvent debt predicted to rise from £4 billion to £16 billion over the next 24 months it is a vital datapoint in health of a business.

Uncover the bad debt of the businesses you work with. Understand the proportion of debt over a value and when it occurred.

  • Entire History
  • Market Leading Insolvency Score
  • Over 9,000 global business users
  • 25 years' experience in business intelligence

Over 1,000 UK businesses trust in Red Flag Alert including…

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REAL-TIME DATA

Helping your business with comprehensive, real-rime financial information

Red Flag Alert help your business minimise risk by providing detailing financial health data on your clients. The RFA algorithm collates billions of financial data points to help ensure accurate predictions and provide real-time data on businesses across the UK.

Red Flag Alert are a leading UK supplier of credit scoring and decisioning systems, using internationally recognised analysis methods combined with our own algorithm designed by insolvency experts to produce real-time financial health scorecards for over 15 million UK businesses.

Our proprietary creditor services data source gives you valuable in-depth insights into company finances, giving you a clear picture of their financial help and assisting you in setting the right credit terms and take action where necessary to protect your business interests against financially unstable or corrupt organisations.

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Financial Analysis

Deep dive into the financials of a business

Understand a company’s performance by examining its financials in order to arrive at a decision or recommendation.

Determine its creditworthiness, profitability and ability to generate income, but also provide an in-depth look at how well it operates internally.

  • Entire History
  • Market Leading Insolvency Score
  • Over 9,000 global business users
  • 25 years' experience in business intelligence
Event data

All business history in one report

See the business events that have led to changes in its health.

Respond quickly to events that happen in the businesses you work with. Understand what impact they have on health and credit limits.

  • Entire History
  • Market Leading Insolvency Score
  • Over 9,000 global business users
  • 25 years' experience in business intelligence

How do we help you protect yourself against risk?

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Detailed financial health ratings

We allocate every business a financial health rating that accurately predicts insolvency. Our clients use this to monitor their clients, set credit limits and ensure onboarding is smooth.

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Unique expert insight

Our experts are always adding new data points, looking at every angle from accounting period changes to bad debt exposure; anything that gives us an insight into what’s really happening in a business.

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Efficient onboarding

Make quick risk assessments in your onboarding process, avoid companies that don’t meet your criteria and set appropriate credit limits for those that do.

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Real-time monitoring

Our data points are updated daily so you can monitor businesses and be alerted the moment any change happens to their financial health. This early warning system means you can proactively manage risk.

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Client Management Through Risk Control

Red Flag Alert helps businesses proactively protect their assets, providing real-time information on:

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Red Flag Alert provides all this data and more to create events to drive daily, weekly or monthly alerts direct to your inbox as an email or CSV.

New CCJ data
Gazette - Unadvertised petition to wind up
Gazette - Winding up order
Gazette - Striking off application
Business health rating change (via our unique health rating algorithm)
Current directors and changes in key appointments
Individual directors’ other business interests
Business assets and turnover
New mortgage data
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Ultimate Business Owner

Globally connect the dots between entities

Our Global data source gives you valuable in-depth insights into company finances, giving you a clear picture of their financial health.

Assisting you in setting the right credit terms and acting where necessary in order to protect your business against financially unstable or corrupt organisations.

  • Entire History
  • Market Leading Insolvency Score
  • Over 9,000 global business users
  • 25 years' experience in business intelligence

Focus on prospects who will pay

Our financial health rating system is one of the most detailed on the market, providing an end-to-end financial health tool using 142 separate indicators of the financial health of a business. Our company search function allows you to search for companies using over 100+ filters including their financial health score.

Review company credit information and assess their viability as a client using our assessment tool. Check company financial information and determine their rating using our unique system.

 

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Listen to how we have helped our customers

We love working closely with all our customers, helping them integrate and use data in their businesses. Hear what some of them say.

"We were looking for a partner to enhance the data offering to our clients, and Red Flag Alert have done just that.  They understood our business, our culture, and our aspirations for the future.  We’ve seen some great feedback on our integration, and we are very happy with both the solution and team at Red Flag Alert."

Rob Mead
Strategic Software Projects Director

"We use the search tool to identify businesses in specific geographic areas, with the right number of staff, the right turnover, and a low risk of non-payment. Now we have experienced the benefits of Red Flag Alert, we could not be without it."

Mark Bryan
NSL Telecoms

"From a business development perspective, our brokers are benefiting greatly from the additional information that Red Flag Alert supplies – we’re able to zero in on ideal prospects and build effective marketing lists."

Ben Robert-Shaw
Power Solutions UK
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Interactive Insolvency Chart

Free Tool - Insolvency Scorecard for UK Regions

Our scorecard provides a rating for each company, with gold, silver, bronze and amber for healthy businesses and one, two and three red flags for companies at risk of insolvency.

Select the below ratings to see how UK Regions fare:

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A good history of filing compliance, with ideal levels of gearing, optimal liquidity, and favourable trends. Very low risk and open credit is recommended.

UK Regions with Gold Rated Companies:
East of England Northern Ireland Wales
178 37 86
Scotland Midlands North East
149 358 45
North West Yorkshire South East
249 168 506
London South West  
548 214  

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Companies will be stable with healthy financials and a full history of filing compliance. Gearing and liquidity will be reasonable. Low risk and open credit is recommended.

UK Regions with Silver Rated Companies:
East of England Northern Ireland Wales
127 21 57
Scotland Midlands North East
90 244 36
North West Yorkshire South East
162 129 303
London South West  
464 111  

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Companies may be new with no detrimental information, or where financial data is available, it may not be ideal. Fair trade risk and open credit is recommended.

UK Regions with Bronze Rated Companies:
East of England Northern Ireland Wales
554 126 275
Scotland Midlands North East
561 1314 174
North West Yorkshire South East
973 494 1414
London South West  
3021 538  

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Companies are newly incorporated or have only passed the lower threshold of the credit score algorithms, and display some financial, payment or filing characteristics that make them an elevated risk. Moderate risk and open credit is only recommended with caution.

UK Regions with Amber Rated Companies:
East of England Northern Ireland Wales
622 120 276
Scotland Midlands North East
521 1412 186
North West Yorkshire South East
1101 654 1539
London South West  
3837 552  

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Companies are in the weakest 20% in their size category and display risk factors that might include a deteriorating financial position, sub-optimal gearing or liquidity, and the possible presence of recent or significant legal notices. The risk is elevated, and suppliers should seek suitable assurances or guarantees.

UK Regions with 1 Red Flag Alert Rated Companies:
East of England Northern Ireland Wales
247 48 126
Scotland Midlands North East
183 544 79
North West Yorkshire South East
436 221 650
London South West  
1512 247  

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All the negative characteristics of a business with 1 red flag, plus additional significant risk factors, such as a county court judgement. Very high risk and guarantees advised.

UK Regions with 2 Red Flag Alert Rated Companies:
East of England Northern Ireland Wales
16 5 8
Scotland Midlands North East
10 36 6
North West Yorkshire South East
28 15 43
London South West  
53 21  

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All the negative characteristics of a business with 2 red flags, but the situation is so dire that immediate insolvency is probable. 56% of companies with three red flags will cease to trade within seven days. Very high risk and guarantees advised.

UK Regions with 3 Red Flag Alert Rated Companies:
East of England Northern Ireland Wales
3 0 3
Scotland Midlands North East
1 14 2
North West Yorkshire South East
11 10 10
London South West  
17 9  

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