Navigating Corporate Transparency: ECCTA Reforms Series

This is the third article in a series exploring the changes brought by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA). Our first two articles in the series, explaining other changes which have already been brought in by the legislation on 4 March 2024, can be found here: links to part 1 and part 2.

Data Sharing

Our previous articles explained that the purpose of the ECCTA is to detect and prevent economic crime by providing Companies House with greater gatekeeper powers. One of these powers allows Companies House to work alongside various other institutions to share and analyse data to determine whether there are signs which might indicate criminal activity.

Data sharing came into force on 4 March 2024 in the first wave of changes. Section 92 ECCTA inserted section 1062A which enabled the Registrar to analyse data they receive for the purposes of crime prevention and detection. Further, any person may disclose information to Companies House by