Describing interests: Research note
Overview
We set out to understand the full range of ways in which current legislation and beneficial ownership disclosure forms categorise the relationship between a beneficial owner and a legal vehicle (interests).
This work is intended to help us:
a) inform updating the modelling of interest objects in the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) (towards version 1 of the standard); [1] and
b) explore beneficial ownership definitions that include “benefit” alongside “own” and “control”.
Footnotes
[1] See: Open Ownership, “Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (v0.4)”, https://standard.openownership.org/en/0.4.0/.