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.
Technology
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More work needed to make France’s beneficial ownership data easy to use
More work is needed to make France’s beneficial ownership data easy to use. With the hope of encouraging collaborative improvements to the register and making it easier for people to use the data, we want to share some of the access and data quality issues we experienced
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , Emma Howard
Published: 02 June 2023
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Connecting beneficial ownership, PEPs and sanctions data with OpenScreening
Millions of open data records can now be explored using a tool to help uncover hidden relationships between beneficial owners, politicians, sanction targets, and networks of companies
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 27 February 2023
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The value of connecting beneficial ownership data across the European Union
This blog post describes the value of connecting beneficial ownership data across the European Union, including the need for structured and interoperable beneficial ownership data in line with an approved data standard such as the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 27 September 2022
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Launch of Beneficial Ownership Data Standard analysis tools
Open Ownership is unveiling a set of data analysis tools to help anyone wanting to reuse and work with data published in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh , David Raznick
Published: 31 March 2022
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Merging and de-duplicating beneficial ownership data
Part Three in a series of technical posts, collecting our experience from three years of the Global Beneficial Ownership Register
Written by Steve Day
Published: 04 November 2020