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
In this blog post, we learn more about Open Ownership’s two new colleagues, Christopher Barwa from Namibia and Maria Jofre from Chile
Written by Open Ownership
Published: 06 February 2025
Tax dodging and corruption are draining billions from development. This blog post discusses how knowing who owns what can empower tax authorities to combat illicit financial flows and secure vital funds for public services.
Written by Alanna Markle
Published: 27 January 2025
Watch the recording of our hybrid event, Legislating for impact: Establishing beneficial ownership transparency frameworks in Asia Pacific, during the 2024 OGP Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting.
Published: 24 January 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
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
Open Ownership wants to better understand in detail the users and use cases of beneficial ownership data (used under any licence open or otherwise) in the private sector
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 18 November 2019
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 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