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
In this joint blog post, we explore regional leadership by Open Ownership and the African Union Commission in driving the beneficial ownership transparency agenda.
Written by African Union Commision, Open Ownership
Published: 16 July 2026
This blog post covers the Philippines' recent push for the introduction of its first-ever primary law on beneficial ownership transparency, and its journey and achievements up to this point, including exiting the Financial Action Task Force greylist in May 2025.
Written by Emily Manuel
Published: 02 June 2026
Three years ago, Nigeria became the first country in Africa to launch a public beneficial ownership (BO) register, firmly placing itself at the forefront of the continent’s transparency movement. This blog post charts progress to date, and unpacks how Nigeria can turn BO data into public value.
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 25 May 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
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
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