Red Flag A!ert

Red Flag Alert supplies business information, credit reports and risk monitoring on UK companies. Its rating system scores a company's financial health and aims to warn users when a business is heading into difficulty. The platform has since widened into compliance checks and fraud prevention.

What Red Flag Alert offers

• Financial health ratings — scores built from financial statements and other business attributes, reviewed by credit analysts.
• Insolvency risk monitoring — alerts when a customer, supplier or partner shows signs of distress.
• Company search filters — tools to find healthy companies for sales and acquisition work.
• Compliance checks — KYC, KYB, ID verification, sanctions, adverse media, politically exposed person and ownership screening.
• CRM integration — an API and email alerts that pass data into a client's own systems.

Who it works with

Finance, risk, technology and compliance teams, including chief financial officers and money laundering reporting officers.

Key facts

• Development: rating system built with Begbies Traynor Group
• Index: the Distress Index, cited by UK media