News broke earlier this year that roughly 800 security release filings, affecting 190 companies, had been fraudulently filed at Companies House, marking the underlying security interests as satisfied when they remained outstanding.

New powers given to the Registrar of Companies under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 were used to rectify the register. The case shone a spotlight on the vulnerabilities of the system for registering the release of security.

Matthew Padian and Joanna Charter explore this issue for The Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law here.