Blog posts on beneficial ownership from Open Ownership
Blog posts
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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
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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
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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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Using DuckDB to query beneficial ownership data in Parquet files
Our open source beneficial ownership data analysis tools help anyone wanting to examine and dive into ownership data published in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard. You can now use DuckDB to query beneficial ownership data sets
Written by David Raznick, Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 07 June 2023
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More work needed to make France’s beneficial ownership data easy to use
More work is needed to make France’s beneficial ownership data easy to use. With the hope of encouraging collaborative improvements to the register and making it easier for people to use the data, we want to share some of the access and data quality issues we experienced
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Emma Howard
Published: 02 June 2023
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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
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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
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Engaging the business community on beneficial ownership transparency in Zambia: Summit for Democracy
In this guest blog post, Johannes Tonn documents our joint event with CIPE and partners during the Summit for Democracy in Zambia. The session explored engaging the business community in strengthening joint efforts to achieve greater beneficial ownership transparency
Written by Johannes Tonn
Published: 05 April 2023
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Connecting data on beneficial ownership, public contracting and politically exposed persons: reflections from a regional anti-corruption workshop
Our recent workshop in Botswana sought to address questions like why should governments and law enforcement agencies pay attention to public procurement to prevent and detect corruption? How can open contracting help, and what is the link between beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) and public procurement?
Written by Julie Rialet
Published: 04 April 2023