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
This October, Open Ownership will be presenting several sessions at the Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 26 September 2025
Open Ownership, the World Bank Group’s Beneficial Ownership Transparency Thematic Working Group, and the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex are inviting submissions to the 2026 Research symposium: Evidence and impact of beneficial ownership transparency
Published: 22 September 2025
In this emerging thinking piece, Open Ownership's Senior Manager of Data and Information Miranda Evans considers how AI may impact the work of implementers of beneficial ownership transparency reforms in the coming years
Written by Miranda Evans
Published: 01 September 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
Denmark is the latest country to be added to the Open Ownership Register, the global platform that brings together beneficial ownership information from around the world
Written by Aleksi Knuutila
Published: 21 August 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