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
The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard is an open standard providing guidance for collecting, storing and exchanging high-quality data on beneficial ownership
In 2025, Spain will host the Fourth Financing for Sustainable Development (FfD4) Conference with heads of state and high-level officials from UN member countries. This emerging thinking piece outlines the key opportunities to advance the potential of beneficial ownership transparency through FfD4 and beyond.
Written by Agustina De Luca
Published: 29 October 2024
Event: Levelling the playing field - how company transparency drives financing for development
Published: 28 October 2024
This emerging thinking piece introduces the main findings from Open Ownership’s new research on beneficial ownership data use
Written by Julie Rialet
Published: 09 October 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
In late 2020, the US government passed the National Defence Authorisation Act which included important corporate transparency reforms
Published: 14 January 2021