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blogs Madeleine McCarroll · Jan 2017
2016 has been a landmark year for beneficial ownership transparency. Beginning with the Panama Papers leak, which placed a much needed global spotlight on the role of anonymous companies in facilitating crime, tax evasion, and fraud, and providing the safety...
blogs Zosia Sztykowski · Dec 2016
Representing OpenOwnership at both the International Anti-Corruption Conference and the Open Government Partnership Summit was an inspiring way to debut our project to build a global, linked register of beneficial ownership.
blogs Dec 2016
Ahead of today’s meeting of European Union member states, proposed transparency amendments to the EU Anti Money Laundering Directive that would have given the public access to beneficial ownership information were dropped. The wording of the agreement reached today reads:...
blogs Chris Taggart · Nov 2016
Who controls and benefits from companies is a transnational, global issue. Take any case of grand corruption, large-scale fraud, organised crime or tax evasion, and it’s pretty certain it will be enabled in some way by the obfuscation and opacity...
blogs Hera Hussain · Nov 2016
The past year has seen huge strides towards ending the opacity of who anonymous companies, so beloved by criminals, corrupt politicians and tax evaders to mask their activities. The UK published the first public register of who controls companies, numerous...