News articles on beneficial ownership from Open Ownership
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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
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Microsoft ACTS and Open Ownership focus on global data standard to boost beneficial ownership transparency
Open Ownership is partnering with Microsoft ACTS to help ensure enhanced data governance and security by using the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 05 December 2022
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Statement on Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) judgement on public beneficial ownership registers in the EU
Many countries around the world are looking to the recent Court of Justice of the European Union ruling regarding public access to beneficial ownership registers, and asking what it means for them
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 28 November 2022