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Mar 20, 2025
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CreditorWatch, has released the February results for its Business Risk Index (BRI), which reveal Australian businesses remain under pressure across key metrics. Cost increases and household cost-of-living pressures continue to impact the hospitality sector, with closures hitting a record high of 9.3%
Mar 19, 2025
CreditorWatch, has released the January results for its Business Risk Index (BRI), revealing positive signs for Australian businesses at the end of 2024 and early 2025. However, the improvements are likely to be short lived, with the proposed tariff regime of the Trump administration expected to hinder growth, particularly for export-reliant sectors such as manufacturing and transport.
Feb 20, 2025
Extreme weakness in business conditions in mining drove this month’s slip in business conditions and looks to contain more noise than signal, though forward orders and profitability in mining have deteriorated so it’s not all noise.
Feb 11, 2025
The most interesting aspect of the NAB quarterly survey is the news that the number of firms reporting the availability of labour as a significant constraint remains a very high 34% and this has not changed over 2024. This is good news for job seekers and suggests the RBA does not have to engage in either a rapid or large series of interest rate reductions.
Feb 06, 2025
Important data points like today’s Retail Sales data will enter the RBA’s thoughts as it decides whether to cut Australian interest rates at the February Board meeting in two weeks’ time.
Feb 03, 2025
CreditorWatch's latest data on Australian Tax Office (ATO) tax debt defaults has revealed thousands of Australian private businesses have collapsed over the past 12 months after failing to address significant tax debts with the ATO.
Dec 20, 2024
CreditorWatch, has released the November results for its Business Risk Index (BRI) with all key metrics pointing to an extremely challenging start to 2025 for Australian businesses, particularly small businesses.
Dec 12, 2024 
We’ve long been at the forefront of using AI to enhance credit risk assessment at CreditorWatch. Our machine learning (ML) models are the cornerstone of our credit scoring system, providing businesses with accurate and reliable risk assessments.
Dec 10, 2024 CreditorWatch, has released the August results for its Business Risk Index (BRI) revealing that the rate of business failures is at its highest level since January 2021, when Australia was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nov 20, 2024 
The 0.8% trimmed mean outcome probably does just enough to avoid a surprise rate rise next week, but shows only continuing very slow progress in returning inflation to target, especially with the possibility of some bias lower from the presence of the big electricity subsidies in the quarter.
Oct 30, 2024
CreditorWatch, has released its latest industry risk ratings, revealing businesses in the hospitality sector are currently exhibiting an extremely high level of risk compared to other sectors.
Oct 28, 2024 CreditorWatch, has released the September results for its Business Risk Index (BRI), revealing that late payments are at their highest rate since the end of JobKeeper in March 2021, as more businesses struggle to pay outstanding invoices.
Oct 16, 2024
Larger businesses are driving the adoption of new technologies across Australia, with AI the primary technology industries are adopting to enhance competitiveness, according to newly released findings from CreditorWatch and its Business Sentiment Survey
Sep 11, 2024
CreditorWatch’s market leading combination of unique data, cutting-edge technology and deep industry expertise sets us apart. We have a team of Data Scientists who play a crucial role in training and refining our AI models.
Sep 06, 2024
‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) compliance involves meeting the standards set by regulators for customer verification and identity checking, depending on your type of business, service provided and industry. Enforcing KYC checks allows regulators and authorities to mitigate criminal activity such as money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Jul 17, 2023
Strong cash flow is crucial for business success and longevity. But chasing outstanding invoices can prove difficult. Late payments are a real problem, particularly for small businesses. This is where a best practice overdue invoice reminders workflow comes into play.
Feb 07, 2023
Strong cash flow is crucial for business success and longevity. But chasing outstanding invoices can prove difficult. Late payments are a real problem, particularly for small businesses. This is where a best practice overdue invoice reminders workflow comes into play.
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