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Open Ownership is driving the global shift towards transparency over who owns and controls companies

⟴ We enable beneficial ownership disclosures which are accurate and complete

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

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

  • Ownership_complexity_Credit Photo by Omar Flores on Unsplash

    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

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    News article Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    Nigeria adopts Beneficial Ownership Data Standard for its new national register

    Nigeria has become the first African country to collect beneficial ownership data in line with Open Ownership’s data standard and has committed to making this information public

    Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Favour Ime

    Published: 26 May 2023

  • Who really owns it? What investigations using ownership data can tell us – blog post cover image
    Blog post Opening Extractives

    Who really owns it? What investigations using ownership data can tell us

    Opening Extractives has been training investigative journalists and civil society partners to aid understanding as to how simple and complex ownership structures operate transnationally. They will share their findings during our Open Gov Week webinar on 9 May: "Who really owns it? Using company ownership data for investigations"

    Written by Isabelle Kermeen

    Published: 05 May 2023

  • The Coverage Principle: Setting the scope of disclosure for beneficial ownership transparency of corporate vehicles – blog post image
    Blog post

    The Coverage Principle: Setting the scope of disclosure for beneficial ownership transparency of corporate vehicles

    Open Ownership's policy briefing on the Coverage principle explains that, to generate actionable and usable data across the widest set of policy aims, beneficial ownership disclosure requirements should apply to all corporate vehicles. It also presents considerations for setting out the scope of coverage in legal and data systems

    Written by Alanna Markle

    Published: 02 May 2023

Latest publications

  • 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

  • Coverage of corporate vehicles in beneficial ownership disclosure regimes – cover image
    Briefing

    Coverage of corporate vehicles in beneficial ownership disclosure regimes

    This policy briefing explains that to generate actionable and usable data across the widest set of policy aims, beneficial ownership disclosure requirements should apply to all corporate vehicles, whilst allowing for reasonable and narrowly applied exemptions

    Written by Alanna Markle

    Published: 27 April 2023

  • OO Booklet
    Publication

    An introduction to beneficial ownership transparency and Open Ownership

    This booklet provides an introduction to beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) and the advantages to improving transparency around company ownership. It also includes an overview of the ways in which Open Ownership is driving the global shift towards BOT

    Published: 14 April 2023

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