Beneficial ownership transparency research, guidance, and case studies from the Open Ownership team.
A briefing on the frontier issue of interoperable beneficial ownership data
Written by Open Ownership
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
This document presents opportunities to strengthen beneficial ownership transparency through the United Nations Convention against Corruption processes
Written by Eryn Shornick, Julie Rialet , Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 13 June 2023
This case study highlights learnings from the decade-long effort to bring about beneficial ownership reform in the US. It presents useful lessons to help those in civil society and the private sector to support beneficial ownership transparency reforms in other countries
Written by Julie Rialet , Mark Hays
Published: 22 May 2023
This policy briefing 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, whilst allowing for reasonable and narrowly applied exemptions
Written by Alanna Markle
Published: 27 April 2023
Open Ownership has mapped the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)’s open data to the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) and republishes it on a regular basis
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Lewis Spurgin , Kathryn Irish , Ed Lloyd-Davies
Published: 17 April 2023
