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blogs Zosia Sztykowski and Chris Taggart · Sep 2017
In the first post in this series on the principles of verification, particularly relating to beneficial ownership, we explained why there is no guarantee that any piece of beneficial ownership data is the absolute truth.
Ghana's Minister of Public Planning, Professor Gyan Baffour, announing his country's partnership with OpenOwnership at the Concorndia Summit
news Zosia Sztykowski · Sep 2017
Professor Gyan Baffour, Planning Minister for Ghana, announced today that the country will be working with OpenOwnership to build a public, open data register of beneficial ownership information.
blogs Zosia Sztykowski · Sep 2017
Last year, the Panama Papers showed us how opaque corporate structures are used to facilitate global money laundering, fraud and tax evasion. The Azerbaijani Laundromat, revealed this week in an investigation by the Guardian, is a reminder that anonymously-owned corporate...
news Tim Davies · Jun 2017
What specific fields of data should a beneficial ownership register collect and publish for re-use? How can that information be shared so that other individuals and systems can integrate, interpret, analyse and take action with it?
Ukraine's Minister of Justice, Pavlo Petrenko. signs a memorandum of understanding with OpenOwnership at a ceremony yesterday
news Zosia Sztykowski · May 2017
We’re delighted to announce that yesterday, Ukraine signed up to become the first country to integrate its national central register of beneficial ownership with the OpenOwnership Register. This means that Ukraine’s beneficial ownership data will be automatically available on the...
blogs Zosia Sztykowski and Chris Taggart · May 2017
This is the first of a series of blog posts in which we will discuss the critical but tricky issue of verification, particularly with respect to beneficial ownership.