The Open Ownership Register was a prototype public beneficial ownership register. It was closed on 29 November 2024.
Find out about beneficial ownership transparency, learn why the Register was closed or read a history of its development. Public, open beneficial ownership datasets republished by Open Ownership can still be downloaded and reused via bods-data.openownership.org.
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Open Ownership Register
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Developing the world's first transnational open beneficial ownership register: A brief history of the Open Ownership Register
After seven years of experimentation, we have closed the Open Ownership Register. Here, we share the history of the world’s first transnational open beneficial ownership register.
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 27 November 2024
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Evolving from the Open Ownership Register to increase our impact
Open Ownership’s approach is evolving. We are sunsetting the prototype Open Ownership Register, which has catalysed new actors to enter the market using our technology and data. From 2025, we will expand our work upstream, using partnerships and technology to drive systemic changes that deliver globally interconnected beneficial ownership data.
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 30 October 2024
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The Nigerian Data Challenge – two examples of how public access and data quality influence investigations
As part of our Nigerian Data Challenge, Zeke Hunter-Green and Boris Kusovski looked into publicly-available beneficial ownership data concerning Nigeria. This blogpost explores their methods, analysis and findings, and discusses how important publicly-available data was to their work
Written by Agustina De Luca , Kathryn Davies
Published: 20 November 2023
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Open Ownership adds Legal Entity Identifiers to its datasets, partners with GLEIF
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and Open Ownership are collaborating, meaning that Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) are now being integrated into datasets produced in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) for the first time
Written by Nicolas Williams, Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 27 September 2023
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Too young to count? Legal minors as beneficial owners
Young children being registered as beneficial owners can create confusion or raise suspicion, especially when they are connected to politicians, oligarchs, or other individuals in the public eye. This blog post explores the matter.
Written by Alanna Markle
Published: 21 September 2023
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Spotting risks by combining beneficial ownership, public procurement and sanctions data
Open Ownership is unveiling a proof-of-concept demonstrating the use of high-quality beneficial ownership information as linked data and how it can be combined with public procurement data and sanctions data to leverage its graph nature for a series of risk and compliance use cases
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Cosmin Marginean
Published: 21 September 2023
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The new Open Ownership Register: faster, more efficient and produces more detailed beneficial ownership data
The technology behind the Open Ownership Register has been updated to be faster, leaner and more efficient, as well as publishing more detailed and up-to-date beneficial ownership data on millions of companies
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Josh Williams
Published: 22 August 2023