The number of new bankruptcy cases of companies increased by a third from January to September 2026. The number of companies declared bankrupt increased by 13.3% compared to the same period last year - to almost 5.4 thousand procedures. The number of new cases of insolvency of legal entities opened over nine months (in terms of the number of monitoring procedures) grew even more strongly - by 23.6%, and amounted to 4.6 thousand, Federsource reported. Directly in the third quarter, 1.8 thousand organizations were declared bankrupt, i.e. 18.5% more year-on-year. The number of observation procedures amounted to 1.6 thousand - an increase of 28.9%, writes Ish veshen.ru.