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Principles for effective beneficial ownership disclosure

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
Guidance

Guide to implementing beneficial ownership transparency

Expert advice for implementing beneficial ownership transparency, covering the full journey from commitment to data use

Published: 01 July 2021
Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard is an open standard providing guidance for collecting, storing and exchanging high-quality data on beneficial ownership

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Join us at the Fourth International Financing for Development Conference in Seville

There are multiple opportunities to meet up with the Open Ownership team at the Fourth International Financing for Development Conference in Seville, Spain this month

Published: 06 June 2025
Job

Short-Term Consultancy Opportunity: Beneficial Ownership Transparency in Chile

Open Ownership is seeking a consultant to support on improving the legal framework, interoperability, and usability of beneficial ownership data in Chile

Published: 04 June 2025
News article

Open Ownership welcomes new International Advisory Board

Open Ownership is excited and honoured to introduce our new International Advisory Board who will support us as we deliver our next five-year strategy. We are delighted to welcome Advocate Xolisile Khanyile (Chair), Richard Daniels, Cheri-Leigh Erasmus, Mitali Tyagi, and Anushka Wijesinha.

Written by Thom Townsend

Published: 21 May 2025

News article Open Ownership Register

Ukraine's beneficial ownership data now available on the Open Ownership Register

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
News article Extractives

Our quick assessment of Nigeria’s first public register: a strong start, but more to be done

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
News article Open Ownership Register

Structured, bulk data now available from the Open Ownership Register

Open Ownership recently launched a new feature allowing anyone to download the entire Register dataset in one go

Published: 26 February 2020
News article Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Visualising beneficial ownership data with our new tool

Open Ownership is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data

Written by Steve Day

Published: 09 October 2020
News article

New support for UK Overseas Territories to publish beneficial ownership data

Open Ownership will be working with the Overseas Territories as they enact their beneficial ownership commitments, advising on technical systems and on data publication

Published: 18 November 2020
News article

The UK’s performance against the Open Ownership Principles

Our technical team’s rapid assessment of the UK’s performance found that, overall, the UK aligns with the Open Ownership Principles

Published: 09 December 2020