Beneficial ownership transparency research, guidance, and case studies from the Open Ownership team.
Open Ownership’s contribution to the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) consultation on the revision of Recommendation 25 on beneficial ownership transparency of trusts and other legal arrangements, and its Interpretive Note
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 06 December 2022
Open Ownership’s contribution to the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) consultation on the revision of Recommendation 24 on the transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons, and its Interpretive Note
This policy brief demonstrates the potential of company ownership data to challenge those seeking to abuse their positions for personal gain, by illustrating how data on beneficial ownership helps prevent and detect corruption, particularly where data is available through public registers
Written by Alanna Markle , Tymon Kiepe
Published: 05 December 2022
This briefing provides background information on the origins, elements, and classifications of trusts in South Africa relevant to the discussions on national beneficial ownership transparency reforms, and serves as background to the Open Ownership briefing, Beneficial ownership transparency of trusts in South Africa.
Written by Johann Krige, Anneke Wolmarans
Published: 14 November 2022
This report summarises findings from Open Ownership’s scoping study into beneficial ownership transparency in Senegal in 2022
Written by Michael Barron, Moussa Gueye, Favour Ime , Tim Law
Published: 10 November 2022
Automatically visualise beneficial ownership structures as clearly as possible using Open Ownership’s data visualisation tool. The tool accepts Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) JSON as an input and outputs SVG content on a webpage
This report analyses the legal and institutional aspects of beneficial ownership disclosure in Argentina
Written by Oscar Ramos Rivera, Opening Extractives
Published: 23 September 2022
Keeping up to date and historic beneficial ownership records underpins any transparency initiative around company ownership and control. This technical guidance sets out the key features to consider to make sure beneficial ownership are easy to access, interpret and check
Written by Kadie Armstrong
Published: 22 August 2022
Understand and gain insights from data produced in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard using Open Ownership’s analysis notebooks and dashboards
This policy briefing outlines the key benefits of collecting, storing, and publishing structured beneficial ownership data, and how this improves its functionality, reduces costs, and leads to greater policy impact
Written by Jack Lord, Tymon Kiepe
Published: 12 August 2022
