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Five areas where beneficial ownership transparency is key in addressing Coronavirus

Published: 19 May 2020
News article Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Beneficial Ownership Data Standard now available in Spanish

El Estándar de Datos sobre Beneficiarios Finales ofrece un formato de datos estructurados para la publicación de los beneficiarios finales de empresas y otras entidades jurídicas.

Published: 14 May 2020
Videos

Video – COVID-19 and Corruption: Tracking the trillions

Published: 05 May 2020
News article

Launch of the Open Ownership Principles

Open Ownership publishes 12 principles for effective beneficial ownership disclosure, defining what ‘good’ looks like for beneficial ownership transparency

Written by Tymon Kiepe

Published: 30 April 2020
News article Extractives Opening Extractives

Opening Extractives: Registering the beneficial owners of oil, gas and mining companies

Open Ownership and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mining, are teaming up to tackle corruption and open up ownership in the extractives sector

Written by Mark Robinson

Published: 15 April 2020
News article Extractives

Our initial assessment of Myanmar’s new beneficial ownership register

Myanmar EITI has recently launched their new beneficial ownership register of companies in the extractives sector

Published: 10 March 2020
News article Open Ownership Register

Structured, bulk data now available from the Open Ownership Register

Open Ownership recently launched a new feature allowing anyone to download the entire Register dataset in one go

Published: 26 February 2020
News article Extractives

Our quick assessment of Nigeria’s first public register: a strong start, but more to be done

At the end of last year Nigeria published Africa’s first beneficial ownership register, and the first globally to focus on the lucrative oil, gas and mining sectors

Published: 13 January 2020
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Countries take leadership to end the shell game on Anti Corruption Day 2019

To mark International Anti-Corruption Day (December 9th), we are taking action, in collaboration with Open Government Partnership, the UK Government and World Bank, to call time on the use of anonymous company ownership facilitating corruption and societal harms like trafficking and modern slavery

Published: 04 December 2019
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Request for proposals: graphic design and videographic services

Request for proposals: graphic design and videographic services

Published: 01 December 2019