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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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One year on: Denise, Julie and Isabelle and their Open Ownership journey

In 2022, Open Ownership welcomed three new team members: Denise Yap based near Glasgow, Scotland, Julie Rialet in Paris, France, and Isabelle Kermeen in London, UK. A year on, they share the story of what led them to Open Ownership, reflect about their first year at the organisation and what’s to come

Written by Isabelle Kermeen

Published: 10 August 2023
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Strengthening beneficial ownership reform across Africa through peer learning

In June 2023, representatives of corporate registries, trust authorities and financial intelligence units from Kenya, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, and South Africa convened in Abuja for a peer learning event

Written by Favour Ime

Published: 08 August 2023
Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Connecting hidden relationships in shell companies using the Open Ownership Register and Black Ice’s SARA

Learn more about Black Ice AI’s realtime AI for entity resolution tool which brings together data from multiple sources including the Open Ownership Register

Written by Scott Uehlinger

Published: 24 July 2023
Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard Trusts and legal arrangements

How to capture information on nominees in beneficial ownership data

Nominee relationships can be difficult to verify as incorrect, posing an obstacle to knowing who truly owns and controls companies and other corporate vehicles. Here we cover how to capture information on nominees in beneficial ownership data

Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh

Published: 14 July 2023
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World leaders: beneficial ownership transparency is a key building block for Ukraine’s future and beyond

The high-level Ukraine Recovery Conference saw world leaders speak of Ukraine’s investment potential and the role of the private sector in driving recovery, with a clear link to the need for beneficial ownership transparency

Written by Louise Russell-Prywata

Published: 03 July 2023
Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Using DuckDB to query beneficial ownership data in Parquet files

Our open source beneficial ownership data analysis tools help anyone wanting to examine and dive into ownership data published in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard. You can now use DuckDB to query beneficial ownership data sets

Written by David Raznick, Stephen Abbott Pugh

Published: 07 June 2023
Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard Open Ownership Register

More work needed to make France’s beneficial ownership data easy to use

More work is needed to make France’s beneficial ownership data easy to use. With the hope of encouraging collaborative improvements to the register and making it easier for people to use the data, we want to share some of the access and data quality issues we experienced

Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Emma Howard

Published: 02 June 2023
Blog post Opening Extractives

Who really owns it? What investigations using ownership data can tell us

Opening Extractives has been training investigative journalists and civil society partners to aid understanding as to how simple and complex ownership structures operate transnationally. They will share their findings during our Open Gov Week webinar on 9 May: "Who really owns it? Using company ownership data for investigations"

Written by Isabelle Kermeen

Published: 05 May 2023
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The Coverage Principle: Setting the scope of disclosure for beneficial ownership transparency of corporate vehicles

Open Ownership's policy briefing on the Coverage principle explains that, to generate actionable and usable data across the widest set of policy aims, beneficial ownership disclosure requirements should apply to all corporate vehicles. It also presents considerations for setting out the scope of coverage in legal and data systems

Written by Alanna Markle

Published: 02 May 2023
Event Opening Extractives

Webinar: Who really owns it? Using company ownership data for investigations

Join our webinar for an introduction to using data on company ownership: what it is, where to find it, how to use it and what impact it can have

Published: 20 April 2023

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