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
Here, our Executive Director Thom Townsend sets out the main priorities in Open Ownership's new strategy for 2025 to 2030, where we will help governments to use beneficial ownership data to raise more, lose less, and spend better.
Written by Thom Townsend
Published: 05 August 2025
Reflections on the African Union STC beneficial ownership transparency seminar and the role of the Africa Beneficial Ownership Transparency Network
Written by Christine Wachira
Published: 28 July 2025
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
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
Open Ownership recently launched a new feature allowing anyone to download the entire Register dataset in one go
Published: 26 February 2020
Open Ownership is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 2020
In late 2020, the US government passed the National Defence Authorisation Act which included important corporate transparency reforms
Published: 14 January 2021
Zambia officially launched its participation in the Opening Extractives programme on 10 December 2021
Published: 16 December 2021