Case studies about the impact of beneficial ownership transparency.
This case study explores the impacts of beneficial ownership transparency on the reform of Chile's public procurement system, ChileCompra.
Written by Guillermo Burr, Rodrigo Félix Montalvo
Published: 22 May 2025
This impact story shows how effective beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) reforms in the country have helped government, private sector, and civil society actors advance domestic policy objectives
Written by Julie Rialet
Published: 15 December 2023
This case study highlights learnings from the decade-long effort to bring about beneficial ownership reform in the US. It presents useful lessons to help those in civil society and the private sector to support beneficial ownership transparency reforms in other countries
Written by Julie Rialet , Mark Hays
Published: 22 May 2023
In 2015, Ukraine became the first country in the world to launch a public register of the beneficial owners of corporate entities registered in the country. This report provides an overview of the register’s origins and evolution, then explores its impact
Written by Alanna Markle
Published: 01 February 2022
In the six months leading up to April 2021, Open Ownership undertook a lightning intervention in Nigeria. The project was funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and you can read the bite-sized report here
Published: 23 May 2021
In the six months leading up to April 2021, Open Ownership undertook a lightning intervention in South Africa
The UK was the first country in the world to commit to making beneficial ownership transparent. In 2016 it launched its public beneficial ownership – or Persons of Significant Control (PSC) – register
Written by Chinwe Ekene Ezeigbo, Tymon Kiepe , Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 01 April 2021
Slovakia was among the first countries in the world to implement a public beneficial ownership register and is a member of the Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group. Slovakian public beneficial ownership data was used to expose alleged cases of wrongdoing
Written by Tymon Kiepe , Victor Ponsford, Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 01 October 2020
