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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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Coronavirus crisis: why knowing beneficial owners in supply chains is fundamental for a good recovery
Written by Thom Townsend , Paul May
Published: 26 March 2020
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Why beneficial ownership transparency is crucial in Latin America
The importance of shining a light on opaque corporate structures created in Latin America and the Caribbean has been repeatedly underscored by successive money laundering scandals affecting the region
Written by Peter Low
Published: 21 February 2020
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The Financial Secrecy Index results: progress on beneficial ownership transparency
Written by Victor Ponsford
Published: 19 February 2020
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IMF Anti-Corruption Challenge – exploring how technology can inform better decision making
Written by Tim Davies
Published: 28 January 2020
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2019 in review: the events shaping the beneficial ownership transparency landscape
The Open Ownership team share the stories and developments that got them excited in 2019, and that they believe will significantly shape the beneficial ownership transparency field going forward
Written by Victor Ponsford
Published: 24 December 2019
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Beneficial ownership transparency: at the heart of Armenia’s anti-corruption agenda
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 09 December 2019
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What's in a name?
Check out our guest blogpost from Sean Martin McDonald, tackling the questions of why the focus open ownership, and what those words really mean. McDonald is a CIGI senior fellow and the co-founder of Digital Public, which builds legal trusts to protect and govern digital assets
Written by Sean Martin McDonald
Published: 08 November 2019
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Graph visualisation is providing insights for policy-makers and implementers
In our last blogpost in this series, we showcased our new graph visualisation tool, which enables investigators to better understand the complex ownership networks and the sphere of influence of beneficial owners. In this blog, we’ll explore how graph visualisation benefits another, perhaps less obvious, set of users: policy-makers and implementers
Written by Laurence Bascle
Published: 03 September 2019
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Building on momentum: our direction of travel
We will continue to demonstrate why the value of beneficial ownership data by delivering high-quality data through our open register, showing how open delivers real benefits and supporting more countries to publish
Written by Thom Townsend
Published: 14 August 2019