Blog posts on beneficial ownership from Open Ownership
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
