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
Open Ownership is hiring a consultant in the Philippines to carry out a usability assessment of the Securities and Exchange Commission Philippines HARBOR system.
Published: 22 September 2026
Beneficial ownership (BO) transparency has become a mainstream policy expectation in good natural resource governance. In this blog post, we share how Opening Extractives has partnered with resource-rich countries to support progress on BO data use.
Written by Opening Extractives
Published: 16 September 2026
Discover Open Ownership’s new Beneficial Ownership Transparency Evidence Centre at our virtual launch event.
Published: 01 September 2026
Ukraine signed up to become the first country to integrate its national central register of beneficial ownership with the Open Ownership Register
Written by Zosia Sztykowski
Published: 23 May 2017
Introducing the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Tim Davies
Published: 29 June 2017
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’s mission is to increase global transparency about company ownership. Today, we are updating our logo to better reflect this work
Published: 15 July 2020
Open Ownership is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 2020