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 Emerging Thinking piece, International Development Consultant Peter Low shares insights from recent Open Ownership research into beneficial ownership disclosure legislation, rules, and forms in ten jurisdictions
Written by Peter Low
Published: 10 July 2025
In this blog post, we discuss the beneficial ownership transparency commitments the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development agreed upon to tackle illicit financial flows and improve domestic resource mobilisation
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 08 July 2025
This blog post from Open Ownership looks at the latest Global Data Barometer and shares global trends and new data on how transparent company and beneficial ownership registers are key to preventing financial crimes
Written by Alanna Markle
Published: 24 June 2025
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
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
In late 2020, the US government passed the National Defence Authorisation Act which included important corporate transparency reforms
Published: 14 January 2021
Open Ownership and the EITI launched Opening Extractives, a global programme to advance beneficial ownership transparency
Published: 15 February 2021
Zambia officially launched its participation in the Opening Extractives programme on 10 December 2021
Published: 16 December 2021
The UK Anti-Corruption Champion John Penrose is launching a new Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group today, at the Open Government Partnership Summit in Ottawa. This transnational coalition of governments will drive a global policy shift towards free, open beneficial ownership data.
Written by Dr Loren Treisman
Published: 30 May 2019