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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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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
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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
Blog post Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Mapping Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation data to the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Today we are unveiling work to map global corporate ownership data from GLEIF to the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS)

Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh

Published: 17 April 2023
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Engaging the business community on beneficial ownership transparency in Zambia: Summit for Democracy

In this guest blog post, Johannes Tonn documents our joint event with CIPE and partners during the Summit for Democracy in Zambia. The session explored engaging the business community in strengthening joint efforts to achieve greater beneficial ownership transparency

Written by Johannes Tonn

Published: 05 April 2023
Blog post Procurement

Connecting data on beneficial ownership, public contracting and politically exposed persons: reflections from a regional anti-corruption workshop

Our recent workshop in Botswana sought to address questions like why should governments and law enforcement agencies pay attention to public procurement to prevent and detect corruption? How can open contracting help, and what is the link between beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) and public procurement?

Written by Julie Rialet

Published: 04 April 2023
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Summit for Democracy: where next on beneficial ownership transparency?

This blog post includes some reflections from the recent Summit for Democracy and asks: where next on beneficial ownership transparency?

Written by Louise Russell-Prywata

Published: 31 March 2023
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Top four trends: what we’ve learnt from supporting journalists and civil society activists to use beneficial ownership data

This blogpost outlines the trends we have observed through our work engaging with the people interested in using beneficial ownership data, including investigative journalists and civil society actors

Written by Agustina De Luca , Julie Rialet

Published: 29 March 2023
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European Parliament issues proposals to improve beneficial ownership data access and quality

The European Parliament has announced a range of draft proposals in its Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive. If adopted, these would put in place important measures to ensure that journalists, civil society organisations, and academic researchers are given meaningful access to beneficial ownership data from EU Member States

Written by Open Ownership

Published: 29 March 2023
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What can global governance teach us about beneficial ownership policy?

In this guest blog post, Angus Barry discusses how governments respond to international pressure and domestic policy goals in deciding whether and how to pass corporate transparency laws, and create effective corporate transparency systems.

Written by Angus Barry

Published: 22 March 2023
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Beneficial ownership transparency: An urgent agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean

Opening Extractives event demonstrates growing community of practice and momentum on beneficial ownership transparency in the region

Written by Lucia Cirimello, Esteban Manteca Melgarejo

Published: 22 March 2023

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