The record nobody keeps.
Insolvency is public in every country that has it. Almost nowhere is it comparable. We are researching whether that missing layer can be built from official public sources.
Research only. Everything below is a dated snapshot produced by connector prototypes from heterogeneous public-source records. A record is a publication, not a unique proceeding, and counts may include duplicates and gaps. Nothing here is a coverage, completeness, freshness, real-time or market-availability claim, no jurisdiction is served commercially, and no case data from any administrator appears in this dataset.
“Despite considerable efforts to produce data on the outcome of insolvency proceedings, little data is available to date.”
That is the regulator describing its own continent. The European register of insolvencies connects twenty-two of twenty-seven member states, stores nothing centrally, and offers no history and no interface for machines. Italy and Greece are not in it at all. Germany deletes each case within six months of its closure, so a German time series cannot be reconstructed — only accumulated, starting now.
Nine jurisdictions are research maps. Three have a connector prototype that has produced this snapshot; the others have not been attempted yet. Coverage per country is partial and undated beyond the snapshot above, and the figures are not comparable across jurisdictions without jurisdiction-specific validation.
How long a French insolvency actually takes.
Duration is the number the Commission says does not exist. Here it is for France, derived from paired opening and closing publications in the BODACC. It is the kind of measurement that only exists once somebody normalises the whole register.
Observations are debtor entities with both an opening and a closing publication in the dataset. Duration is measured between publications, not between court decisions.
The full dataset is not public yet.
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