News articles on beneficial ownership from Open Ownership
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From transparent to accountable ownership: charting the path for Open Ownership’s future impact
At our recent strategic review Open Ownership's Management Team discussed how best we can leverage our successes to deliver a sustainable impact on the outcomes in our strategy by the end of 2025. In line with our agile approach to strategy and delivery we agreed to sharpen our focus over the next two years, and double down on the areas where we can make the most difference
Written by Thom Townsend
Published: 23 October 2023
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Open Ownership adds Legal Entity Identifiers to its datasets, partners with GLEIF
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and Open Ownership are collaborating, meaning that Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) are now being integrated into datasets produced in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) for the first time
Written by Nicolas Williams, Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 27 September 2023
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The new Open Ownership Register: faster, more efficient and produces more detailed beneficial ownership data
The technology behind the Open Ownership Register has been updated to be faster, leaner and more efficient, as well as publishing more detailed and up-to-date beneficial ownership data on millions of companies
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Josh Williams
Published: 22 August 2023
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2023 EITI Standard: strengthened requirements on beneficial ownership transparency
Today the EITI launched the 2023 EITI Standard, at its global conference in Dakar, Senegal. Open Ownership welcomes the strengthening of EITI requirements on beneficial ownership transparency. Here are the key updates
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 13 June 2023
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Nigeria adopts Beneficial Ownership Data Standard for its new national register
Nigeria has become the first African country to collect beneficial ownership data in line with Open Ownership’s data standard and has committed to making this information public
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Favour Ime
Published: 26 May 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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Connecting beneficial ownership, PEPs and sanctions data with OpenScreening
Millions of open data records can now be explored using a tool to help uncover hidden relationships between beneficial owners, politicians, sanction targets, and networks of companies
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 27 February 2023