Beneficial ownership transparency research, guidance, and case studies from the Open Ownership team.
This briefing explores how beneficial ownership transparency can improve the fisheries sector, beyond tackling crime, through the implementation of national, central beneficial ownership registers
Written by Tymon Kiepe , Peter Low
Published: 30 April 2024
Using the Open Ownership Principles and Requirement 2.5 of the EITI Standard, this report analyses the country’s current policy and legal environment in the Philippines
Written by Emily Manuel , Maria Karla Espinosa
Published: 22 April 2024
This policy briefing explores the application of beneficial ownership transparency to listed companies, highlighting the complexities of identifying beneficial owners, the variance in international and national regulatory frameworks, and the mixed effectiveness of current transparency measures.
Written by Ramandeep Kaur Chhina, Tymon Kiepe
Published: 28 March 2024
This policy briefing provides considerations to help policymakers and those implementing or supporting beneficial ownership transparency reforms to think through various issues and approaches toward ensuring effective transparency and oversight of investment funds.
Written by Ramandeep Kaur Chhina, Alanna Markle
This report summarises key points from the Symposium on Systems of Financial Secrecy, co-organised by Open Ownership and the London School of Economics International Inequalities Institute, with support from the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity.
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 06 March 2024
Demonstrating how high-quality Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) data can support anti-money laundering investigations by highlighting risk factors which data users want to spot
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Kathryn Irish
Published: 26 February 2024
Open Ownership's response to the UK's Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ consultation on the transparency of land ownership involving trusts
Published: 23 February 2024
This progress report documents the second year (2022/23) of the Opening Extractives programme’s implementation across 11 countries
Written by Opening Extractives
Published: 06 February 2024
This impact story shows how effective beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) reforms in the country have helped government, private sector, and civil society actors advance domestic policy objectives
Written by Julie Rialet
Published: 15 December 2023
Open Ownership's contribution to the Financial Action Task Force's public consultation on the updated guidance of Recommendation 25 on the beneficial ownership transparency of trusts and other legal arrangements
Published: 06 December 2023
