The Open Ownership Principles set out best practice standards for effective beneficial ownership disclosure. They are intended to support governments implementing effective beneficial ownership transparency reforms and guide international institutions in understanding and supporting this work
Expert advice for implementing beneficial ownership transparency, covering the full journey from commitment to data use
Published: 01 July 2021
The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard is an open standard providing guidance for collecting, storing and exchanging high-quality data on beneficial ownership
As governments meet in Nairobi to negotiate the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, we explore the opportunity to strengthen how governments exchange and use information about who ultimately owns and controls wealth and assets.
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 11 November 2025
In this emerging thinking piece, we set out key considerations for connecting information to understand transnational beneficial ownership networks, including through the creation of a global register
Written by Tymon Kiepe
Published: 10 November 2025
This impact story highlights how Ghana is improving data integrity, licensing oversight, and public accountability through the Opening Extractives programme, jointly implemented by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Open Ownership
Written by Nyasha Vera
Published: 20 October 2025
Introducing the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Tim Davies
Published: 29 June 2017
The Open Ownership Register has been updated to include information about the beneficial owners of over 240,000 Ukrainian companies
Written by Zosia Sztykowski
Published: 03 January 2018
Denmark is the latest country to be added to the Open Ownership Register, the global platform that brings together beneficial ownership information from around the world
Written by Aleksi Knuutila
Published: 21 August 2018
Signing ceremony and technical workshop in Yerevan launches start of a partnership between Open Ownership and the Armenian Government, taking a step towards allowing Armenia to publish beneficial ownership data
Written by Eva Okunbor
Published: 30 October 2019
Open Ownership recently launched a new feature allowing anyone to download the entire Register dataset in one go
Published: 26 February 2020
Open Ownership is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 2020