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 month, Open Ownership colleagues are co-organising and speaking at several sessions during the Eleventh Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption in Doha, Qatar
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 10 December 2025
To mark International Anti-Corruption Day, this blog post considers how the upcoming eleventh session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (CoSP11) might build on the progress made on beneficial ownership transparency since CoSP10 in December 2023
Written by Phoebe Williams
Published: 09 December 2025
This piece shares key findings from Open Ownership’s assessment of the usability of Norway’s beneficial ownership register, highlighting its strengths, limitations, and opportunities for improvement
Written by Maria Jofre , Tymon Kiepe
Published: 24 November 2025
Introducing the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Tim Davies
Published: 29 June 2017
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
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 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