Key resources from Open Ownership: OGP Asia-Pacific 2025 Meeting

Introduction: What is beneficial ownership transparency?

1. What is BOT? What is beneficial ownership transparency?
2. Beneficial Ownership Data Standard and beneficial ownership primer: Primer - Beneficial Ownership Data Standard Version 0.4 documentation

How do we implement it?

1. What does good look like? The Open Ownership Principles: Principles for effective beneficial ownership disclosure
2. How do we get there? The Implementation Guide: Guide to implementing beneficial ownership transparency
3. Read all our technical resources that guide high-quality implementation: Technical guidance
4. Guide to drafting effective legislation for beneficial ownership transparency
5. Beneficial Ownership Transparency: A Guide for Parliaments
6. Guide: Legislating for effective beneficial ownership transparency reforms in the extractive sector
7. Guide to doing user research for beneficial ownership systems

Why is it important? What can it do?

1. Procurement: Beneficial ownership data in procurement
   
2. Private sector: The use of beneficial ownership data by private entities
   
3. Anti-corruption: Who benefits? How company ownership data is used to detect and prevent corruption
   
4. National security: Using beneficial ownership data for national security
   
5. Extractives related resources: Extractives resources; Catalysing transformative change in beneficial ownership transparency
   
6. Energy transition: Shining a light on company ownership: The role of beneficial ownership transparency in the energy transition
   
7. Fisheries governance: Using beneficial ownership information in fisheries governance

Where has it been implemented?

• Open Ownership map: world wide action on beneficial ownership transparency

Emerging thinking

1. Too young to count? Legal minors as beneficial owners
2. Striking a balance: Towards a more nuanced conversation about access to beneficial ownership information
3. Closing the loop: How beneficial ownership information is used and why it matters
4. Financing for Development: Beneficial ownership transparency as a fundamental reform to drive sustainable development
5. Carving pathways from transparency in beneficial ownership to climate integrity
6. Solving the international information puzzle of beneficial ownership transparency

Find more emerging thinking pieces here.

OO impact reports

1. Slovakia: Early impacts of public beneficial ownership registers: Slovakia
2. Ukraine: Early impacts of public beneficial ownership registers: Ukraine
3. United Kingdom: Early impacts of public beneficial ownership registers: United Kingdom
4. Denmark: Use and impact of public beneficial ownership registers: Denmark

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