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Open Ownership's blog is the space where our colleagues, or invited guests, can share their thinking on all aspects of beneficial ownership transparency reform around the world

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What if everyone knew who owned and controlled companies?

Have you ever looked at a news story about a government contract, a political advertisement, or an anonymous social media post and wanted to know: who is benefiting from this?

Written by Alanna Markle

Published: 15 December 2021
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Nowhere to hide: Realising the potential of beneficial ownership reform

Here at Open Ownership we see significant opportunities to advance a global norm of beneficial ownership transparency over the coming year

Written by Louise Russell-Prywata

Published: 14 December 2021
Blog post Extractives

What the Pandora Papers tell us about the extractive industries

Cases in the Pandora Papers highlight the need to combine beneficial ownership data with other datasets, such as PEPs and asset declaration regulations

Published: 15 November 2021
Videos

Tech showcase #3 - Open Sanctions, VXSoft, Whythawk and AntAC

Open Ownership’s third technology showcase featured speakers from Open Sanctions, VXSoft, Whythawk and the Anticorruption Action Centre from Ukraine

Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh

Published: 14 November 2021
Blog post

Beneficial ownership information can support transparency and accountability in the transition to net zero

Written by Alanna Markle , Tymon Kiepe

Published: 11 November 2021
Blog post Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

FATF proposals signal a modest but important rise in global standards on beneficial ownership

Open Ownership welcomes the proposed changes to R24 which bring the FATF Recommendations a few steps closer to the Open Ownership Principles

Published: 15 October 2021
Blog post

Pandora Papers: Lessons for beneficial ownership transparency?

The Open Ownership team has started looking at what we can learn about beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) from the Pandora Papers

Published: 15 October 2021
Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

State-owned enterprises and beneficial ownership disclosures

Because state-owned enterprises are effectively stewarded for the benefit of the public, understanding how they are owned and controlled is complicated

Written by Jack Lord

Published: 15 October 2021
Blog post

Promoting media ownership transparency

Knowing who really exercises control over, and benefits from, commercial entities has implications which reach far beyond the realm of financial crime prevention

Written by Peter Low

Published: 20 September 2021
Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Armenia and Latvia become first countries to publish data in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Armenia and Latvia have become the first countries to publish beneficial ownership data in line with Open Ownership’s Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS)

Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh

Published: 15 September 2021

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