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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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Unlocking the potential of data on corporate ownership in resource-rich countries: Phase two of Opening Extractives
As we head into the second half of our Opening Extractives programme, we take stock of our impact and progress to date as well as the lessons learned so far, and share a refreshed set of goals
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata , Gay Ordenes
Published: 23 November 2023
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The Nigerian Data Challenge – two examples of how public access and data quality influence investigations
As part of our Nigerian Data Challenge, Zeke Hunter-Green and Boris Kusovski looked into publicly-available beneficial ownership data concerning Nigeria. This blogpost explores their methods, analysis and findings, and discusses how important publicly-available data was to their work
Written by Agustina De Luca , Kathryn Davies
Published: 20 November 2023
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Beneficial ownership transparency in the Philippines: supporting law enforcement, public procurement, and tax
Open Ownership and the UNODC recently delivered a series of engagements in the Philippines, a frontrunner on beneficial ownership transparency in Southeast Asia. The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission is leading efforts to encourage government agencies working in law enforcement, public procurement and tax to use BO data, which this work aimed to complement
Written by Alanna Markle , Emily Manuel
Published: 05 October 2023
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Too young to count? Legal minors as beneficial owners
Young children being registered as beneficial owners can create confusion or raise suspicion, especially when they are connected to politicians, oligarchs, or other individuals in the public eye. This blog post explores the matter.
Written by Alanna Markle
Published: 21 September 2023
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Spotting risks by combining beneficial ownership, public procurement and sanctions data
Open Ownership is unveiling a proof-of-concept demonstrating the use of high-quality beneficial ownership information as linked data and how it can be combined with public procurement data and sanctions data to leverage its graph nature for a series of risk and compliance use cases
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Cosmin Marginean
Published: 21 September 2023
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Fighting corruption in public procurement with beneficial ownership data in Latin America
In July, Open Ownership joined the UNODC at the Latin America regional conference on anti-corruption and integrity in public procurement processes
Written by Agustina De Luca , Karabo Rajuili
Published: 30 August 2023