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The average payment delay for European businesses returned to a figure below 13 days, 12.95, in Q2 2026, according to INFORMA's European Business Payment Behaviour Study. This represents a fall of 0.20 days quarter over quarter, although it remains over half a day above the same period last year.
During the first seven months of 2026, 84,780 companies were incorporated in Spain, up 10% on the same months last year, according to INFORMA's Business Demography Study . July’s 11,776 business creations were up 8% on the same month in 2025 and rose 2% compared with June, making it the fourth most active month of the year.
In the first seven months of 2026, 3,984 insolvency proceedings and 19,534 dissolutions were recorded in Spain, according to the data on Insolvency proceedings and dissolutions compiled by INFORMA. These figures represent a 4% decline in insolvency proceedings and a 12% increase in dissolutions compared with the same period in 2025.
50.6% of Spanish business owners claim to have experienced at least one default in the past twelve months, according to the survey conducted
for the thirteenth edition of the “Business Payment Behaviour Analysis”, a major study on the payment situation in
businesses published by INFORMA. This percentage continues a
downward trend, by nearly 1 pp over the past year and more than 13 pp compared with the
64% reached in 2023. However, it remains above 2021, when it
stood at 43%.
In Spain, there are 520,505 shell companies (those which, despite being registered, have not published their accounts in the past two years despite being required to do so), according to INFORMA's Shell Companies Study.
The average payment delay for
Spanish businesses reached 14.36 days in Q2 2026, slightly lower than the previous quarter, according to
the Spanish Business Payment Behaviour Study published
by INFORMA. It therefore remains above
14 days, a figure it had fallen below in the last quarter of 2025,
although it is down by half a day year over year.
During the first half of 2026, 73,004 companies were incorporated in Spain, a figure representing an 11% increase on the same period last year, according to INFORMA's Business Demography Study . The 11,504 business creations in June remained virtually stable compared with the same month in 2025, with a slight 0.4% decline, although they were 1% higher than those recorded in May.
In the first half of 2026, 3,382 insolvency proceedings and 17,436 dissolutions were recorded in Spain, according to the data on Insolvency proceedings and dissolutions compiled by INFORMA. These figures represent a 5% decline and a 12% increase, respectively, compared with the same period in 2025.
