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
Open Ownership is seeking to hire a short-term contractor to design and conduct qualitative user research on reporting complex ownership structures
Published: 02 November 2026
In this emerging thinking piece, we explore how beneficial ownership transparency can be leveraged to strengthen political finance integrity
Written by Phoebe Williams , Agustina De Luca , Peter Low
Published: 29 October 2026
Join us in March 2027 for the 2nd Research Symposium on the Evidence and Impact of Beneficial Ownership Transparency, with a theme on Bridging research and practice.
Written by Open Ownership, World Bank
Published: 27 October 2026
Ukraine signed up to become the first country to integrate its national central register of beneficial ownership with the Open Ownership Register
Written by Zosia Sztykowski
Published: 23 May 2017
Introducing the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
Written by Tim Davies
Published: 29 June 2017
Ghana announces partnership with Open Ownership
Published: 19 September 2017
The Open Ownership Register has been updated to include information about the beneficial owners of over 240,000 Ukrainian companies
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
Kyrgyzstan joins Open Ownership’s pilot programme
Written by Louise Russell-Prywata
Published: 13 September 2018