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
Join Open Ownership at the World Bank's Partnerships for Anticorruption Global Forum in Washington, D.C. or online on 8-9 April 2025.
Published: 04 April 2025
In this blog post, Open Ownership's Senior Manager for Policy and Research Alanna Markle outlines some of the key points in our most recent policy briefing on the importance of having sufficient detail in beneficial ownership information
Written by Alanna Markle
Published: 01 April 2025
Open Ownership data analyst Maria Jofre will propose insights for anti-corruption policies across OECD member and non-member countries, using the OECD Public Integrity Indicators
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 24 March 2025
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
At the end of last year Nigeria published Africa’s first beneficial ownership register, and the first globally to focus on the lucrative oil, gas and mining sectors
Published: 13 January 2020
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
Open Ownership is launching a new software tool for visualising beneficial ownership data
Written by Steve Day
Published: 09 October 2020
In late 2020, the US government passed the National Defence Authorisation Act which included important corporate transparency reforms
Published: 14 January 2021
Anglo American, BHP, Glencore, Newmont, Repsol and Rio Tinto commit to a set of beneficial ownership transparency and reforms
Published: 07 September 2021