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
Here, we introduce our library of research and other resources which show how BO reforms lead to action and impact. We also highlight key insights gained from the collection of resources housed in the Evidence Centre.
Written by Agustina De Luca , Alanna Markle
Published: 07 October 2026
Beneficial ownership (BO) transparency has become a mainstream policy expectation in good natural resource governance. In this blog post, we share how Opening Extractives has partnered with resource-rich countries to support progress on BO data use.
Written by Opening Extractives
Published: 16 September 2026
Discover Open Ownership’s new Beneficial Ownership Transparency Evidence Centre at our virtual launch event.
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 01 September 2026
Introducing the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Tim Davies
Published: 29 June 2017
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
Ukraine is set to become the first country to implement the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, a framework for collecting and publishing beneficial ownership information as open data
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 22 October 2018
Request for proposals: graphic design and videographic services
Published: 01 December 2019
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