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Open Ownership drives the global shift towards transparency and accountability in corporate ownership and control

⟴ We enable accurate and complete beneficial ownership disclosures

⟴ We support governments to make high-quality data shareable, and educate others on how to use it

⟴ This reduces corruption and tax evasion, gives fair development opportunities and builds societal trust

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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 - 2nd December 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

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    Multilingual resources

    Many resources are available in multiple languages; visit our multilingual homepage to explore all our translations

Latest content

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    Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard Open Ownership Register

    Spotting risks by combining beneficial ownership, public procurement and sanctions data

    Open Ownership is unveiling a proof-of-concept demonstrating the use of high-quality beneficial ownership information as linked data and how it can be combined with public procurement data and sanctions data to leverage its graph nature for a series of risk and compliance use cases

    Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Cosmin Marginean

    Published: 21 September 2023

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    Blog post Open Ownership Register

    Too young to count? Legal minors as beneficial owners

    Young children being registered as beneficial owners can create confusion or raise suspicion, especially when they are connected to politicians, oligarchs, or other individuals in the public eye. This blog post explores the matter.

    Written by Alanna Markle

    Published: 21 September 2023

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    Blog post Opening Extractives

    Liberia publishes regulations on beneficial ownership transparency: our reflections

    Open Ownership's technical lead for beneficial ownership implementation in Africa shares about Liberia's journey so far

    Written by Favour Ime

    Published: 19 September 2023

Latest publications

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    Tools Beneficial Ownership Data Standard Open Ownership Register

    How to use Open Ownership’s tools: A guide for data users analysing beneficial ownership data

    This publication offers a step-by-step guide on Open Ownership's latest tools for examining beneficial ownership data

    Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Agustina De Luca

    Published: 31 July 2023

  • Open Ownership's submission to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime following the 2021 United Nations General Assembly Special Session Political Declaration against Corruption
    Publication

    Beneficial ownership transparency and the United Nations Convention against Corruption: progress and recommendations

    This document presents opportunities to strengthen beneficial ownership transparency through the United Nations Convention against Corruption processes

    Written by Eryn Shornick, Julie Rialet , Louise Russell-Prywata

    Published: 13 June 2023

  • What’s in it for business? The US case – cover image
    Case study

    What’s in it for business? The US case: Lessons from private sector and civil society advocacy for beneficial ownership transparency reforms

    This case study highlights learnings from the decade-long effort to bring about beneficial ownership reform in the US. It presents useful lessons to help those in civil society and the private sector to support beneficial ownership transparency reforms in other countries

    Written by Julie Rialet , Mark Hays

    Published: 22 May 2023

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