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
Open Ownership is hiring an experienced consultant to provide strategic leadership to a new taskforce working towards advancing interoperable beneficial ownership data systems across borders.
Published: 29 July 2025
Reflections on the African Union STC beneficial ownership transparency seminar and the role of the Africa Beneficial Ownership Transparency Network
Written by Christine Wachira
Published: 28 July 2025
In this Emerging Thinking piece, International Development Consultant Peter Low shares insights from recent Open Ownership research into beneficial ownership disclosure legislation, rules, and forms in ten jurisdictions
Written by Peter Low
Published: 10 July 2025
Ghana announces partnership with Open Ownership
Written by Zosia Sztykowski
Published: 19 September 2017
The Open Ownership Register has been updated to include information about the beneficial owners of over 240,000 Ukrainian companies
Published: 03 January 2018
At the end of last year Nigeria published Africa’s first beneficial ownership register, and the first globally to focus on the lucrative oil, gas and mining sectors
Published: 13 January 2020
Open Ownership is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 2020
Open Ownership will be working with the Overseas Territories as they enact their beneficial ownership commitments, advising on technical systems and on data publication
Published: 18 November 2020
Our technical team’s rapid assessment of the UK’s performance found that, overall, the UK aligns with the Open Ownership Principles
Published: 09 December 2020