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
This guide provides resources for those implementing beneficial ownership transparency
Published: 01 July 2021
Meet our two newest members of staff, Onyi Ough from Nigeria and Rodrigo Félix Montalvo from Mexico.
Written by Isabelle Kermeen
Published: 18 March 2024
Open Ownership recently co-facilitated a regional conference to fast-track implementation of the UNCAC in South East Asia
Written by Emily Manuel , Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 07 March 2024
Join the next Beneficial Ownership Data Standard working group call this month to help push the standard forward
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 04 March 2024
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
In late 2020, the US government passed the National Defence Authorisation Act which included important corporate transparency reforms
Published: 14 January 2021
Anglo American, BHP, Glencore, Newmont, Repsol and Rio Tinto commit to a set of beneficial ownership transparency and reforms
Published: 07 September 2021
Zambia officially launched its participation in the Opening Extractives programme on 10 December 2021
Published: 16 December 2021
The UK Anti-Corruption Champion John Penrose is launching a new Beneficial Ownership Leadership Group today, at the Open Government Partnership Summit in Ottawa. This transnational coalition of governments will drive a global policy shift towards free, open beneficial ownership data.
Written by Dr Loren Treisman
Published: 30 May 2019