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blogs Zosia Sztykowski and Chris Taggart · Mar 2018
Welcome to the third instalment of our four-part blog post series on verification. To recap, in our first post, we broke down the term “verification” into three distinct steps:
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.
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...
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.
blogs Jack Lord · Apr 2017
Beneficial ownership is a complex domain to model, as we’ve seen from the work we’ve already done on the OpenOwnership data standard. At the most fundamental level, the beneficial ownership standard needs to be able to identify legal entities and...
blogs The B Team Leaders · Apr 2017
A year ago the “Panama Papers” leak exposed the use of anonymous companies to avoid sanctions, move proceeds of corruption and crime, and facilitate other illicit financial schemes. The leak put a price on doing business through anonymous companies 400...