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Open Ownership's blog is the space where our colleagues, or invited guests, can share their thinking on all aspects of beneficial ownership transparency reform around the world

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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
Blog post Procurement 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
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
Blog post Procurement

Fighting corruption in public procurement with beneficial ownership data in Latin America

In July, Open Ownership joined the UNODC at the Latin America regional conference on anti-corruption and integrity in public procurement processes

Written by Agustina De Luca , Karabo Rajuili

Published: 30 August 2023
Blog post

Meet Miranda and Phoebe, our two newest staff members

Meet Miranda Evans and Phoebe Williams, the two newest members of staff at Open Ownership

Written by Kathryn Davies

Published: 25 August 2023
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One year on: Denise, Julie and Isabelle and their Open Ownership journey

In 2022, Open Ownership welcomed three new team members: Denise Yap based near Glasgow, Scotland, Julie Rialet in Paris, France, and Isabelle Kermeen in London, UK. A year on, they share the story of what led them to Open Ownership, reflect about their first year at the organisation and what’s to come

Written by Isabelle Kermeen

Published: 10 August 2023
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Strengthening beneficial ownership reform across Africa through peer learning

In June 2023, representatives of corporate registries, trust authorities and financial intelligence units from Kenya, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, and South Africa convened in Abuja for a peer learning event

Written by Favour Ime

Published: 08 August 2023
Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Connecting hidden relationships in shell companies using the Open Ownership Register and Black Ice’s SARA

Learn more about Black Ice AI’s realtime AI for entity resolution tool which brings together data from multiple sources including the Open Ownership Register

Written by Scott Uehlinger

Published: 24 July 2023
Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard Trusts and legal arrangements

How to capture information on nominees in beneficial ownership data

Nominee relationships can be difficult to verify as incorrect, posing an obstacle to knowing who truly owns and controls companies and other corporate vehicles. Here we cover how to capture information on nominees in beneficial ownership data

Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh

Published: 14 July 2023
Blog post

World leaders: beneficial ownership transparency is a key building block for Ukraine’s future and beyond

The high-level Ukraine Recovery Conference saw world leaders speak of Ukraine’s investment potential and the role of the private sector in driving recovery, with a clear link to the need for beneficial ownership transparency

Written by Louise Russell-Prywata

Published: 03 July 2023

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