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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Graph visualisation is providing insights for policy-makers and implementers
In our last blogpost in this series, we showcased our new graph visualisation tool, which enables investigators to better understand the complex ownership networks and the sphere of influence of beneficial owners. In this blog, we’ll explore how graph visualisation benefits another, perhaps less obvious, set of users: policy-makers and implementers
Written by Laurence Bascle
Published: 03 September 2019
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What graph visualisation teaches us about beneficial ownership
We’re excited to be launching a new version of our graph visualisation functionality to the OpenOwnership Register. We hope this will act as a powerful resource for journalists, policy makers and civil society by allowing them to more easily interpret the data to expose corruption, undertake due diligence and support policy impact
Written by Laurence Bascle
Published: 30 July 2019
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Danish Business Register beneficial ownership data added to Open Ownership Register
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
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Ukraine's beneficial ownership data now available on the Open Ownership Register
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
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Not just public, but useful: the right way to set up a beneficial ownership register
Governments establishing public registers must think about the people who will be accessing the data, and ensure their registers are not just public, but easy to use
Written by Zosia Sztykowski
Published: 07 September 2017
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Calling all businesses! Help us test the world's first register of global beneficial ownership
Written by Madeleine McCarroll
Published: 06 March 2017
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