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What is beneficial ownership transparency?

Beneficial ownership transparency reveals how companies and other legal entities or arrangements are owned and controlled by their beneficial owners

Published: 03 March 2022
Open Ownership map: Worldwide action on beneficial ownership transparency

Discover which countries have planned or are implementing beneficial ownership transparency reforms, which countries have launched live central registers, and visit country or regional profile pages
Guidance

Guide to drafting effective legislation for beneficial ownership transparency

This guide supports those involved in drafting and reviewing laws to understand the elements that constitute effective legislation for implementing beneficial ownership transparency reforms, laying the groundwork for establishing a beneficial ownership register

Written by Favour Ime , Tymon Kiepe

Published: 28 August 2024

Emerging thinking

Usable beneficial ownership data

Based on Open Ownership’s recent research to understand the experiences of those who use beneficial ownership data, this working paper outlines 22 features to help make beneficial ownership data more usable and, therefore, more useful

Written by Open Ownership

Published: 30 September 2025
Publication

From transparency to trust: Open Ownership strategy 2025 to 2030

Open Ownership improves accountability and strengthens financial systems, enabling governments to collect money more effectively, spend it better, and prevent it from being stolen or misused. Here, we set out how we will deliver on our strategy from 2025 to 2030.

Written by Open Ownership

Published: 05 August 2025
Research report

Describing interests: Research note

In this research note, we set out to understand the full range of ways in which current legislation and beneficial ownership disclosure forms categorise the relationship between a beneficial owner and a legal vehicle (interests)

Written by Tim Davies, Peter Low

Published: 10 July 2025