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What the Pandora Papers tell us about the extractive industries

blogs Open Ownership and EITI · Nov 2021

In October 2021, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) revealed a new major leak containing more than 11.9 million documents from the databases of 14 corporate service providers that set up and manage shell companies and trusts in financial...

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Tech showcase #3 - Open Sanctions, VXSoft, Whythawk and AntAC

blogs Stephen Abbott Pugh · Nov 2021

Watch Open Ownership’s third technology showcase featuring digital tools that improve transparency of company ownership and control

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Beneficial ownership information can support transparency and accountability in the transition to net zero

blogs Alanna Markle and Tymon Kiepe · Nov 2021

In the lead up to the COP26 summit, G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors issued a communiqué that endorsed the creation of beneficial ownership registers as a priority action in the “transformative effort to tackle climate change and biodiversity...

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FATF proposals signal a modest but important rise in global standards on beneficial ownership

blogs Open Ownership · Oct 2021

Open Ownership welcomes the proposed changes to R24 which bring the FATF Recommendations a few steps closer to the Open Ownership Principles, the gold standard for effective beneficial ownership disclosure. However, they are not there yet.

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Research consultancy opportunity: Policy briefing on beneficial ownership transparency reforms and gender

jobs Open Ownership · Oct 2021 · Expired

As a nascent policy area, the link between beneficial ownership transparency and gender is underexplored. To date, no comprehensive exploration of how beneficial ownership transparency reforms interact with gender – whether the positive impact of data use or potential negative...

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Ghana and Liberia take steps to disclose owners of extractive companies

news Open Ownership · Oct 2021

Ghana and Liberia are the first countries to have officially launched the Opening Extractives Programme, thereby affirming their commitment to ending anonymous company ownership in the extractive sector.

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