Course Details

Companies House fully introduced its ID verification scheme for Directors and PSCs from 18 November 2025. How is it going? What problems are accountants encountering? How can issues be overcome? What is planned for the next stage in ‘Spring 2026’ and how should accountants deal with that?


In this course David Winch covers the following topics:

  • Are directors and PSCs successfully complying with the ID verification process?
  • Understanding the two-stage Companies House process and submission ‘windows’
  • The name mis-match issue
  • Other problems being experienced and what can be done about them
  • The further changes being introduced from ‘Spring 2026’

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CPD Course Speaker

BCom FCA - Director

David Winch

David has had over 30 years’ experience in accountancy with a wide variety of firms and their clients ranging from the smallest to major multi-nationals. He is author of numerous articles and two books, 'Money Laundering for Lawyers: the new requirements and their practical implications' (with Janet Bazley KC) and 'A Practical Guide to Confiscation and Restraint' (with Narita Bahra KC and John Carl Townsend). David is also a forensic accountant, an experienced expert witness and a speaker at conferences and training events as a nationally recognised authority on money laundering, proceeds of crime and confiscation.