Records last updated: 04 April 2024
Contact person: Louise Russell-Prywata
Current ongoing work
Open Ownership is closely involved in providing evidence, advice and data analysis to support implementation and improvement of BOT in the UK, and is a member of the UK Illicit Finance Working Group.
Committed to one or more
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Live registerFollowing the launch of one or more beneficial ownership registers, a country is labelled as Live register.
Implemented one or more
Data on the Open Ownership map is drawn from publicly-available sources and may not be comprehensive for all countries. For countries marked in grey we do not have information. If data is incorrect, or to submit new data,, please fill in this form.
Implementation details
Trust Registration
- Name
- Trust Registration
- Scope
- Full-economy
- Structured data publicly available
- No
- Published as BODS
- No
- Available via API
- No
People with significant control (PSC) Register
- Name
- People with significant control (PSC) Register
- Scope
- Full-economy
- Register launched
- 2016
- Threshold used to determine beneficial ownership
- 25%
- Structured data publicly available
- Yes
- Published as BODS
- No
- Available via API
- Yes
- Available on the OO register
- Yes
Register of Overseas Entities (ROE)
- Name
- Register of Overseas Entities (ROE)
- Scope
- Sectoral: Land
- Register launched
- 2022
- Threshold used to determine beneficial ownership
- 25%
- Structured data publicly available
- Yes
- Published as BODS
- No
- Available via API
- Yes
Commitment details
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has made a commitment to beneficial ownership transparency as part of the Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group. [31 August 2021] link to commitment
- As an Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) member, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has committed to beneficial ownership transparency for the extractives sector. [25 February 2016]
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has included a commitment in an Open Government Partnership National Action Plan to beneficial ownership transparency [31 December 2021] link to commitment
- The United Kingdom has committed to creating a beneficial ownership register of overseas entities which own UK property in the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 [15 March 2022] link to commitment
- At the 2016 UK Anti-Corruption Summit, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland made a commitment to beneficial ownership disclosure. [12 May 2016] link to commitment
