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
Open Ownership is seeking a legal consultant to support the review of Bhutan’s legislative and regulatory framework on beneficial ownership transparency
Published: 29 April 2025
Knowing who ultimately owns, controls, and benefits from companies, other legal entities, and certain high-value assets is crucial for effective public resource mobilisation. In this blog post, we highlight why the Financing for Development Outcome Document should commit to ending company secrecy.
Written by Agustina De Luca
Published: 25 April 2025
Read about the End Snow-Washing Coalition’s journey, including challenges overcome, wins celebrated, and why Canada’s reforms are even more relevant in this year’s fast-changing political landscapes.
Written by Open Ownership, Sasha Caldera
Published: 24 April 2025
Ghana announces partnership with Open Ownership
Written by Zosia Sztykowski
Published: 19 September 2017
The Open Ownership Register has been updated to include information about the beneficial owners of over 240,000 Ukrainian companies
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