The Open Ownership Principles set out best practice standards for effective beneficial ownership disclosure
This guide provides resources for those implementing beneficial ownership transparency. It covers the full implementation journey, including initial commitments, developing a robust legal framework, designing data collection systems, building registers and making data available
Published: 01 July 2021
Opening Extractives event demonstrates growing community of practice and momentum on beneficial ownership transparency in the region
Written by Lucia Cirimello, Esteban Manteca Melgarejo
Published: 22 March 2023
In this guest blog post, Angus Barry discusses how governments respond to international pressure and domestic policy goals in deciding whether and how to pass corporate transparency laws, and create effective corporate transparency systems.
Written by Angus Barry
Meet Mutale Mukuka and Emily Manuel, the two newest members of staff at Open Ownership
Written by Kathryn Davies
Published: 14 March 2023
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
Open Ownership wants to better understand in detail the users and use cases of beneficial ownership data (used under any licence open or otherwise) in the private sector
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 18 November 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 is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 2020
In late 2020, the US government passed the National Defence Authorisation Act which included important corporate transparency reforms
Published: 14 January 2021