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
Expert advice for implementing beneficial ownership transparency, covering the full journey from commitment to data use
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
This October, Open Ownership will be presenting several sessions at the Open Government Partnership Global Summit in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 26 September 2025
Open Ownership, the World Bank Group’s Beneficial Ownership Transparency Thematic Working Group, and the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex are inviting submissions to the 2026 Research symposium: Evidence and impact of beneficial ownership transparency
Published: 22 September 2025
In this emerging thinking piece, Open Ownership's Senior Manager of Data and Information Miranda Evans considers how AI may impact the work of implementers of beneficial ownership transparency reforms in the coming years
Written by Miranda Evans
Published: 01 September 2025
Open Ownership publishes 12 principles for effective beneficial ownership disclosure, defining what ‘good’ looks like for beneficial ownership transparency
Written by Tymon Kiepe
Published: 30 April 2020
Anglo American, BHP, Glencore, Newmont, Repsol and Rio Tinto commit to a set of beneficial ownership transparency and reforms
Published: 07 September 2021
Zambia officially launched its participation in the Opening Extractives programme on 10 December 2021
Published: 16 December 2021
Version 0.3 of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard allows for the capturing of information on state-owned enterprises and publicly listed companies as well as introducing changes informed by years of research and expert technical guidance
Written by Stephen Abbott Pugh
Published: 20 June 2022
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
Published: 22 June 2022
Many countries around the world are looking to the recent Court of Justice of the European Union ruling regarding public access to beneficial ownership registers, and asking what it means for them
Published: 28 November 2022