In the last quarter of the year, the European Average Payment Delay (APD) stood at 12.17 days, which represents a slight increase of 0.06 days compared to last year. Throughout 2024, the European APD reached its lowest level since 2011, with 11.89 days in the first quarter.
During 2024, there has been a rise in the number of insolvency proceedings, of 22%, with bankruptcies being the most abundant, representing 79%, and special proceedings growing the most, 192%, to reach the highest figure of the last decade, 9,015 proceedings in total.
On July 2021 ASEDIE (Spanish Infomediary Companies Association) filed a contentious-administrative appeal against the Royal Decree 327/2021, which restricted the conservation, storage and treatment of the information published in the BOE (Spanish official state gazette) supplements impeding re-use of this information.
This purchase is part of the company's 2021-2024 Strategic Plan, which aims to modernise its range of products and services, making available to its users the latest Artificial Intelligence technologies for the processing of information and the automation of decision-making.
INFORMA has published the 8th edition of its Business Payment Behaviour analysis, which includes an analysis of the payment situation in 2020 both in Spain and worldwide, the evolution of the relevant legislation and the results of an opinion survey on late payments.
The rate of women in Boards of Directors remains unchanged since 2007 (the Gender Equality Regulation came into force that year establishing that certain companies should have at least 40% women on their boards by 2015).