Understanding beneficial ownership data use

Appendix 3: Rapid review of relevant publicly available resources

• Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Beneficial Ownership: Taking the Extra Step to Data Accuracy (ACAMS, 2023), https://www.acams.org/en/media/document/36425.
• Michael Barron and Tim Law, Beneficial Ownership Transparency: Exploring the Private Sector Use Case (Center for International Private Enterprise, 2023), https://www.cipe.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Beneficial-Ownership-Transparency_CIPE_ACGC_2023.pdf.
• Sara Brimbeuf, Maíra Martini, Florian Hollenbach, and David Szakonyi, Behind A Wall: Investigating Company And Real Estate Ownership In France (Transparency International France and AntiCorruption Data Collective, 2023), https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/2023-Report-Behind-a-Wall-English.pdf.
• Maria Constanza Castro Orduna and Adriana Fraiha Granjo, U4 Helpdesk Answer – The uses and impact of beneficial ownership information (Transparency International and U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2023), https://knowledgehub.transparency.org/helpdesk/the-uses-and-impact-of-beneficial-ownership-information.
• Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), The State of UK Competition (CMA, 2022), https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/627e6cf6d3bf7f052d33b0ae/State_of_Competition.pdf.
• Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Asset Recovery, Vienna, 10–14 June 2024, “Reference document on good practices, challenges and lessons learned with respect to beneficial ownership transparency”, Note by the Secretariat, CAC/COSP/WG.2/2024/2, 3 April 2024, https://track.unodc.org/uploads/documents/UNCAC/WorkingGroups/workinggroup2/2024-June-10-14/CAC-COSP-WG.2-2024-2/2406076E.pdf.
• Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, Tenth session, Atlanta, United States of America, 11–15 December 2023, “Good practices and challenges with respect to beneficial ownership transparency and how it can foster and enhance the effective recovery and return of proceeds of crime”, Note by the Secretariat, CAC/ COSP/2023/16, 13 October 2023, https://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/UNCAC/COSP/session10/CAC-COSP-2023-16/2319911E.pdf.
• Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett and Slobodan Tomić, Transnational governance networks against grand corruption: Cross-border cooperation among law enforcement (University of Birmingham, 2022), https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/college-social-sciences/government-society/publications/transnational-governance-networks-against-grand-corruption-research-paper.pdf.
• Egmont Group, Best Egmont Cases: Financial Analysis Cases 2014–2020 (Egmont Group, 2022), https://egmontgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2021-Financial.Analysis.Cases_.2014-2020-3.pdf.
• Egmont Group, Best Egmont Cases: Financial Analysis Cases 2021–2023 (Egmont Group, 2024), https://egmontgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/EGMONT_2021-2023-BECA-III_FINAL.pdf.
• Adriana Fraiha Granjo, Maíra Martini, and Gabriel Sipos, NEBOT Paper Five – Beneficial ownership registers in the EU: Progress so far and the way forward (European Commission, Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union – Publications Office of the European Union, 2023), https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/NEBOT-Paper-5.pdf.
• Christian Hattens, Beneficial Ownership: Experience from the Danish Implementation of a Beneficial Ownership Register (Transparency International Denmark, 2022), https://transparency.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/TI-Beneficial-Owners-Conference-report-Experiences-from-Denmark.pdf.
• J. Harvey, A. Bello, A. Doig, P.C. van Duyne, S. Gonul, J. van Koningsveld, A. Shehu, S. Sittlington, P. Sproat, S. Turner, and T. Ward, Final report – Tracking beneficial ownership and the proceeds of corruption: Evidence from Nigeria (Northumbria University, 2021), https://giace.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/FINAL-REPORT-TRACKING-BENEFICIAL-OWNERSHIP-AND-THE-PROCEEDS-OF-CORRUPTION-EVIDENCE-FROM-NIGERIA.pdf.
• Tom Keatinge and Anton Moiseienko, “For Whose Benefit? Reframing Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Around Users’ Needs”, Royal United Services Institute, 23 November 2020, https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/occasional-papers/whose-benefit-reframing-beneficial-ownership-disclosure-around-users-needs.
• Andres Knobel, Uses and Purposes of Beneficial Ownership Data (Tax Justice Network, 2023), https://taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Uses-and-purposes-of-BO-Data-briefing-14-Oct-2.pdf.
• Alanna Markle and Tymon Kiepe, Who benefits? How company ownership data is used to detect and prevent corruption (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Open Ownership, 2022), https://www.openownership.org/en/publications/who-benefits-how-company-ownership-data-is-used-to-detect-and-prevent-corruption.
• “Minder klantimpact door NVB Standaarden voor risicogebaseerd witwasonderzoek”, Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken, 30 May 2023, https://www.nvb.nl/nieuws/minder-klantimpact-door-nvb-standaarden-voor-risicogebaseerd-witwasonderzoek.
• Maria Leonor Rodriguez Pratt, Implementación del beneficiario final en economías en desarrollo: El caso de Argentina y sus vínculos con América Latina (Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe, 2023), https://justiciafiscal.net/documento-implementacion-del-beneficiario-final-en-economias-en-desarrollo-el-caso-de-argentina-y-sus-vinculos-sobre-america-latina.
• Isabela Villamil, János Kertész, and Mihály Fazekas, “Collusion risk in corporate networks”, Sci Rep 14, no. 3161 (2024), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53625-9.