Beneficial ownership technical guidance from Open Ownership
This guidance aims to support those designing, drafting, advocating for and reviewing legislation to understand the various components that make up effective legislation, providing the foundation for a beneficial ownership register.
Written by Favour Ime , Lucia Cirimello, Tymon Kiepe
Published: 23 September 2024
Demonstrating how high-quality Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) data can support anti-money laundering investigations by highlighting risk factors which data users want to spot
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Kathryn Irish
Published: 26 February 2024
This technical guidance aims to help implementers and multi-stakeholder groups understand how reliable identifiers facilitate the connection of datasets such as disclosures on politically exposed persons, stock exchange filings and licence registers
Written by Kadie Armstrong , Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 23 October 2023
Combining high-quality beneficial ownership data in a linked data format with other datasets helps detect potential risks during customer due diligence, know your customer checks, and sanctions screening processes
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 21 September 2023
Millions of open data records can now be explored using a tool to help uncover hidden relationships between beneficial owners, politicians, sanction targets, and networks of companies
Published: 27 February 2023
This guidance explores what information is needed on the corporate governance of state-owned enterprises to support transparency efforts. It demonstrates how capturing high-quality structured data on ownership or control structures aids information-checking
Written by Emma Howard , Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 10 February 2023
Keeping up to date and historic beneficial ownership records underpins any transparency initiative around company ownership and control. This technical guidance sets out the key features to consider to make sure beneficial ownership are easy to access, interpret and check
Written by Kadie Armstrong
Published: 22 August 2022
A catalogue of available BODS datasets for anyone to freely reuse, republish, or incorporate into their tools
Published: 31 March 2022
This document provides technical guidance on considerations for relational database design when building a system that holds beneficial ownership information
Written by Open Ownership, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Published: 16 December 2021
This technical note aims to support implementers of national beneficial ownership registers in reducing risks associated with exemptions from disclosure that exist for listed companies
Written by Kadie Armstrong , Jack Lord
Published: 17 September 2020
