The Open Ownership Principles set out best practice standards for effective beneficial ownership disclosure. They are intended to support governments implementing effective beneficial ownership transparency reforms and guide international institutions in understanding and supporting this work
This guide provides resources for those implementing beneficial ownership transparency
Published: 01 July 2021
Open Ownership launches a new version of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS)
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 24 June 2024
New research shares lessons from using beneficial ownership information for responsible natural resource governance
Written by Nyasha Vera
Published: 20 June 2024
With growing global interest in asset registers, this emerging thinking piece argues that policymakers should be thinking about the information ecosystem they want to be working towards.
Written by Tymon Kiepe
Published: 17 June 2024
Introducing the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Tim Davies
Published: 29 June 2017
The Open Ownership Register has been updated to include information about the beneficial owners of over 240,000 Ukrainian companies
Written by Zosia Sztykowski
Published: 03 January 2018
Denmark is the latest country to be added to the Open Ownership Register, the global platform that brings together beneficial ownership information from around the world
Written by Aleksi Knuutila
Published: 21 August 2018
At the end of last year Nigeria published Africa’s first beneficial ownership register, and the first globally to focus on the lucrative oil, gas and mining sectors
Published: 13 January 2020
Open Ownership is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 2020
Our technical team’s rapid assessment of the UK’s performance found that, overall, the UK aligns with the Open Ownership Principles
Published: 09 December 2020