Beneficial ownership transparency research, guidance, and case studies from the Open Ownership team.
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
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 06 December 2023
Submission by Open Ownership to the 10th Session of the UNCAC Conference of States Parties
Published: 01 December 2023
A briefing on the frontier issue of interoperable beneficial ownership data
Published: 15 November 2023
This technical guidance aims to help implementers and multi-stakeholder groups understand how reliable identifiers facilitate the connection of datasets such as disclosures on politically exposed persons, stock exchange filings and licence registers
Written by Kadie Armstrong , Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 23 October 2023
This scoping report examines the state of play of beneficial ownership (BO) reforms in Ghana. It aims to identify specific gaps in BO implementation and make context-specific recommendations on how Ghana can advance its BO reforms
Written by Samuel Bekoe, Opening Extractives
Published: 17 October 2023
Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) have been added to Open Ownership (OO) datasets, enabling greater connectivity between international beneficial ownership (BO) and corporate ownership datasets
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 27 September 2023
Combining high-quality beneficial ownership data in a linked data format with other datasets helps detect potential risks during customer due diligence, know your customer checks, and sanctions screening processes
Published: 21 September 2023
This publication offers a step-by-step guide on Open Ownership's latest tools for examining beneficial ownership data
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Agustina De Luca
Published: 31 July 2023
