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Plans for the Global Open Ownership Register in 2021
news Open Ownership · Feb 2021
The Global Open Ownership Register (GOOR) holds 12 million records with data from 200 jurisdictions. Because Open Ownership (OO) has been engaging with more countries and assisting them with publishing their beneficial ownership (BO) data, the amount of information in...
New project to investigate who benefits from corruption in extractive industries
Press Devex · Feb 2021
An ambitious new program to fight corruption by identifying who benefits from the proceeds of lucrative extractive industries is being launched by transparency campaigners.
New global programme: Opening Extractives launch
news Open Ownership · Feb 2021
A new joint programme between Open Ownership (OO) and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), supported by the BHP Foundation, aims to end the use of anonymous companies linked to corruption and mismanagement in natural resources.
Shedding Light on Big Secrets in Tiny Luxembourg
Press OCCRP · Feb 2021
Dodgy money from around the world has poured into secretive shell companies based in Luxembourg. Here’s why it was possible — and how we exposed them.
Easing the collection of high quality beneficial ownership information in resource rich countries
blogs Kadie Armstong and Christina Berger · Jan 2021
It has been four years since the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) introduced the requirement that governments must collect and publish information on beneficial owners (people who significantly control the activities of mining and extractives companies and/or benefit from them...
USA adopts a central beneficial ownership register
News Open Ownership · Jan 2021
In late 2020, the US government passed the National Defence Authorisation Act which included important corporate transparency reforms. As a result of this Act, the majority of companies, about 87% in the US, will soon have to disclose their beneficial...