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
Discover Open Ownership’s new Beneficial Ownership Transparency Evidence Centre at our virtual launch event.
Published: 01 September 2026
Knowing the beneficial owners – the real, human owners of corporate vehicles bidding for public contracts – is critical to identifying and mitigating procurement-related risks. This blog post explores how.
Written by Open Ownership
In this joint blog post, we explore regional leadership by Open Ownership and the African Union Commission in driving the beneficial ownership transparency agenda.
Written by African Union Commision, Open Ownership
Published: 16 July 2026
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 and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mining, are teaming up to tackle corruption and open up ownership in the extractives sector
Written by Mark Robinson
Published: 15 April 2020