Procurement is the purchase of goods, work, or services. As part of minimum reassurances during a purchase, most customers want to know who they are buying from. In order to know who governments are really doing business with, it is essential to know who directly and immediately owns a company (legal ownership), as well as who is the beneficial owner ultimately benefiting from and exercising control over a company
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Landmark Philippine procurement law contains key provisions on beneficial ownership
This blog post explores the New Government Procurement Act (Republic Act No. 12009), signed into law 20 July 2024, and its key provisions on beneficial ownership
Written by Emily Manuel , Kirbee Tibayan
Published: 04 September 2024
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Beneficial ownership transparency in the Philippines: supporting law enforcement, public procurement, and tax
Open Ownership and the UNODC recently delivered a series of engagements in the Philippines, a frontrunner on beneficial ownership transparency in Southeast Asia. The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission is leading efforts to encourage government agencies working in law enforcement, public procurement and tax to use BO data, which this work aimed to complement
Written by Alanna Markle , Emily Manuel
Published: 05 October 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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Fighting corruption in public procurement with beneficial ownership data in Latin America
In July, Open Ownership joined the UNODC at the Latin America regional conference on anti-corruption and integrity in public procurement processes
Written by Agustina De Luca , Karabo Rajuili
Published: 30 August 2023
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Connecting data on beneficial ownership, public contracting and politically exposed persons: reflections from a regional anti-corruption workshop
Our recent workshop in Botswana sought to address questions like why should governments and law enforcement agencies pay attention to public procurement to prevent and detect corruption? How can open contracting help, and what is the link between beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) and public procurement?
Written by Julie Rialet
Published: 04 April 2023
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Connecting beneficial ownership data and public procurement in Kenya
Open Ownership organised a workshop in Nairobi on 14 and 15 June 2022 to discuss the current state of beneficial ownership data in Kenya, and its connections to public procurement
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 22 June 2022
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Event: beneficial ownership data and public procurement in Kenya
Join Open Ownership and the Business Registration Service for a two-day hybrid workshop to discuss the current state of beneficial ownership data and its connections to public procurement in Kenya
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 08 June 2022
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