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
Nigeria has become the first African country to collect beneficial ownership data in line with Open Ownership’s data standard and has committed to making this information public
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Favour Ime
Published: 26 May 2023
Opening Extractives has been training investigative journalists and civil society partners to aid understanding as to how simple and complex ownership structures operate transnationally. They will share their findings during our Open Gov Week webinar on 9 May: "Who really owns it? Using company ownership data for investigations"
Written by Isabelle Kermeen
Published: 05 May 2023
Open Ownership's policy briefing on the Coverage principle explains that, to generate actionable and usable data across the widest set of policy aims, beneficial ownership disclosure requirements should apply to all corporate vehicles. It also presents considerations for setting out the scope of coverage in legal and data systems
Written by Alanna Markle
Published: 02 May 2023
Introducing the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Tim Davies
Published: 29 June 2017
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
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
Myanmar EITI has recently launched their new beneficial ownership register of companies in the extractives sector
Published: 10 March 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