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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.

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IMF Anti-Corruption Challenge – exploring how technology can inform better decision making

blogs Tim Davies · Jan 2020

OpenOwnership is taking part in the IMF’s latest Anti-Corruption challenge and we need your help and votes! (see more detail on how you can vote for us at the bottom of the blog)

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2019 Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index: What it says about corruption and beneficial ownership transparency.

blogs OpenOwnership · Jan 2020

Transparency International’s 2019 CPI analysis takes a step back and acknowledges that corruption is increasingly complex and transnational in nature. It does this by drawing attention to the fact that countries at the top of the CPI, which are deemed...

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2019 in review: the events shaping the beneficial ownership transparency landscape

blogs Victor Ponsford · Dec 2019

2019 has been a busy and productive year for OpenOwnership. We appointed our first executive director, Thom Townsend, and hired several more key staff in response to rising demand for our expertise. Alongside significant change internally, the wider beneficial ownership...

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Beneficial ownership transparency: at the heart of Armenia’s anti-corruption agenda

blogs Louise Russell-Prywata · Dec 2019

Photo by Artak Petrosyan on Unsplash

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What's in a name?

blogs Sean Martin McDonald · Nov 2019

Check out our guest blog from Sean Martin McDonald, tackling the questions of why the focus open ownership, and what those words really mean. McDonald is a CIGI senior fellow and the co-founder of Digital Public, which builds legal trusts...

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