The Open Ownership Register is a prototype transnational, open and public beneficial ownership register. Visit register.openownership.org to find out more.
The Register imports data from Armenia, Denmark, Slovakia and the UK, structures the data in line with version 0.2 of our Beneficial Ownership Data Standard offering it for anyone to download under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
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The Nigerian Data Challenge – two examples of how public access and data quality influence investigations
As part of our Nigerian Data Challenge, Zeke Hunter-Green and Boris Kusovski looked into publicly-available beneficial ownership data concerning Nigeria. This blogpost explores their methods, analysis and findings, and discusses how important publicly-available data was to their work
Written by Agustina De Luca , Kathryn Davies
Published: 20 November 2023
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Open Ownership adds Legal Entity Identifiers to its datasets, partners with GLEIF
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and Open Ownership are collaborating, meaning that Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) are now being integrated into datasets produced in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) for the first time
Written by Nicolas Williams, Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 27 September 2023
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Too young to count? Legal minors as beneficial owners
Young children being registered as beneficial owners can create confusion or raise suspicion, especially when they are connected to politicians, oligarchs, or other individuals in the public eye. This blog post explores the matter.
Written by Alanna Markle
Published: 21 September 2023
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Spotting risks by combining beneficial ownership, public procurement and sanctions data
Open Ownership is unveiling a proof-of-concept demonstrating the use of high-quality beneficial ownership information as linked data and how it can be combined with public procurement data and sanctions data to leverage its graph nature for a series of risk and compliance use cases
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Cosmin Marginean
Published: 21 September 2023
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The new Open Ownership Register: faster, more efficient and produces more detailed beneficial ownership data
The technology behind the Open Ownership Register has been updated to be faster, leaner and more efficient, as well as publishing more detailed and up-to-date beneficial ownership data on millions of companies
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Josh Williams
Published: 22 August 2023
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More work needed to make France’s beneficial ownership data easy to use
More work is needed to make France’s beneficial ownership data easy to use. With the hope of encouraging collaborative improvements to the register and making it easier for people to use the data, we want to share some of the access and data quality issues we experienced
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Emma Howard
Published: 02 June 2023