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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
The Open Ownership map: Worldwide commitments and action

Discover commitments that countries have made to beneficial ownership transparency, which countries have implemented central or public registers, and visit country profile pages
Multilingual resources

Various beneficial ownership transparency resources from the Open Ownership team are available in multiple languages

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Using beneficial ownership data analysis tools to understand, investigate and visualise ownership structures

In October and November, Open Ownership organised the first-of-its-kind workshop series to share the importance of structured beneficial ownership data.

Written by Agustina De Luca , Stephen Abbott Pugh

Published: 23 November 2022
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Armenia's path to beneficial ownership transparency and data use

This blog post dives into Armenia's path to beneficial ownership transparency and data use

Written by Nyasha Vera

Published: 10 November 2022
Job

Country Programmes Associate - Remote

Open Ownership is recruiting a permanent Country Programmes Associate to deliver beneficial ownership implementation support to priority national governments in Africa

Published: 03 November 2022

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Senegal: Scoping assessment

This report summarises findings from Open Ownership’s scoping study into beneficial ownership transparency in Senegal in 2022

Written by Michael Barron, Moussa Gueye, Favour Ime , Tim Law

Published: 10 November 2022
Technical guidance Opening Extractives

Building an auditable record of beneficial ownership

Keeping up to date and historic beneficial ownership records underpins any transparency initiative around company ownership and control. This technical guidance sets out the key features to consider to make sure beneficial ownership are easy to access, interpret and check

Written by Kadie Armstrong

Published: 22 August 2022
Briefing Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Structured and interoperable beneficial ownership data

This policy briefing outlines the key benefits of collecting, storing, and publishing structured beneficial ownership data, and how this improves its functionality, reduces costs, and leads to greater policy impact

Written by Jack Lord, Tymon Kiepe

Published: 12 August 2022