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 recruiting a remotely based Digital and Data Support Manager to join our Digital and Data Team. This is a permanent role.
Published: 03 September 2025
In this emerging thinking piece, Open Ownership's Senior Manager of Data and Information Miranda Evans considers how AI may impact the work of implementers of beneficial ownership transparency reforms in the coming years
Written by Miranda Evans
Published: 01 September 2025
Here, our Executive Director Thom Townsend sets out the main priorities in Open Ownership's new strategy for 2025 to 2030, where we will help governments to use beneficial ownership data to raise more, lose less, and spend better.
Written by Thom Townsend
Published: 05 August 2025
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
Open Ownership is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 2020
Anglo American, BHP, Glencore, Newmont, Repsol and Rio Tinto commit to a set of beneficial ownership transparency and reforms
Published: 07 September 2021
Zambia officially launched its participation in the Opening Extractives programme on 10 December 2021
Published: 16 December 2021
Version 0.3 of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard allows for the capturing of information on state-owned enterprises and publicly listed companies as well as introducing changes informed by years of research and expert technical guidance
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 20 June 2022
Many countries around the world are looking to the recent Court of Justice of the European Union ruling regarding public access to beneficial ownership registers, and asking what it means for them
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 28 November 2022