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
This piece shares key findings from Open Ownership’s assessment of the usability of Norway’s beneficial ownership register, highlighting its strengths, limitations, and opportunities for improvement
Written by Maria Jofre , Tymon Kiepe
Published: 24 November 2025
In this blog post, we explain why we have taken the decision to pause further development of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard in order to better understand and support its current use
Written by Miranda Evans , Kadie Armstrong
Published: 18 November 2025
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
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
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 recently launched a new feature allowing anyone to download the entire Register dataset in one go
Published: 26 February 2020
Published: 19 May 2020
Open Ownership is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 2020