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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...
blogs Stephen Abbott Pugh · Nov 2021
Watch Open Ownership’s third technology showcase featuring digital tools that improve transparency of company ownership and control
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...
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.
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...
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.