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
The Philippines has recently been removed from the Financial Action Task Force's grey list. In this piece, we explore the journey of the country's beneficial ownership transparency reform and our work to support them.
Written by Emily Manuel , Rebecca Wong
Published: 16 May 2025
This blog post introduces a new report by Maria Jofre (Open Ownership) and Andres Knobel (Tax Justice Network), which provides an in-depth analysis of the United Kingdom People with Significant Control register
Written by Maria Jofre , Andres Knobel
Published: 13 May 2025
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
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 is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 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
In late 2020, the US government passed the National Defence Authorisation Act which included important corporate transparency reforms
Published: 14 January 2021