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Coronavirus crisis: why knowing beneficial owners in supply chains is fundamental for a good recovery
blogs Thom Townsend and Paul May · Mar 2020
The coronavirus has spread fast, impacting lives and livelihoods. The corona pandemic has and will have far-reaching consequences: not just immediate ones, but also many that have yet to emerge and cannot be easily predicted. One issue that is likely...
Our initial assessment of Myanmar’s new beneficial ownership register
News Mar 2020
Myanmar EITI has recently launched their new beneficial ownership register of companies in the extractives sector. Hot on the heels of Nigeria at the end of 2019, the register covers the lucrative oil, gas and mining sectors in the nation....
Structured, bulk data now available from the OpenOwnership Register
news OpenOwnership · Feb 2020
Since 2017, the OpenOwnership Register has aggregated open beneficial ownership data from around the world. We regularly import data from the UK, Denmark, Slovakia and Ukraine, linking it together to build the world’s largest open database of beneficial owners. With...
Financial secrecy is the enemy in the fight against corruption
Press City A.M. · Feb 2020
Here’s a stat to start your Monday morning: 70 per cent of grand corruption cases, when politicians or their associations misappropriate and use public funds for their personal benefit, involve the use of anonymous companies.
Why Beneficial Ownership Transparency is Crucial in Latin America
blogs Peter Low · Feb 2020
The importance of shining a light on opaque corporate structures created in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been repeatedly underscored by successive money laundering scandals affecting the region.
The Financial Secrecy Index results: progress on beneficial ownership transparency
blogs Victor Ponsford · Feb 2020
This week, the Tax Justice Network released the Financial Secrecy Index, which assesses the state of financial secrecy in 133 jurisdictions. On average, countries have reduced their secrecy scoring on ownership registration in part by implementing beneficial ownership reforms.