Beneficial ownership transparency research, guidance, and case studies from the Open Ownership team.
Combining high-quality beneficial ownership data in a linked data format with other datasets helps detect potential risks during customer due diligence, know your customer checks, and sanctions screening processes
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 21 September 2023
This publication offers a step-by-step guide on Open Ownership's latest tools for examining beneficial ownership data
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Agustina De Luca
Published: 31 July 2023
This document presents opportunities to strengthen beneficial ownership transparency through the United Nations Convention against Corruption processes
Written by Eryn Shornick, Julie Rialet , Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 13 June 2023
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
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
Open Ownership has mapped the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)’s open data to the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) and republishes it on a regular basis
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Lewis Spurgin , Kathryn Irish , Ed Lloyd-Davies
Published: 17 April 2023
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
Millions of open data records can now be explored using a tool to help uncover hidden relationships between beneficial owners, politicians, sanction targets, and networks of companies
Published: 27 February 2023
This report provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the beneficial ownership (BO) laws, regulations and policies in Zambia. It identifies the gaps, inconsistencies and practical challenges faced in implementing BO in Zambia and provides practical recommendations on how the legislative, regulatory and policy framework on BO can be improved
Written by Moira Mukuka Legal Practitioners
Published: 21 February 2023
Open Ownership submitted an official comment in contribution to the public consultation on the proposed rule on Beneficial Ownership Information Access and Safeguards, and Use of FinCEN Identifiers for Entities
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 16 February 2023
