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
Open Ownership is looking for an experienced individual to join our data and technology team to help people across the world use and learn from beneficial ownership data in order to actively reduce corruption risks and improve governance
Published: 03 May 2024
European Union adopts new anti-money laundering package with interesting developments
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 25 April 2024
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
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 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
The Open Ownership Principles are the gold standard for good governance through transparent company ownership
Published: 09 December 2020
Our technical team’s rapid assessment of the UK’s performance found that, overall, the UK aligns with the Open Ownership Principles