Posts tagged with beneficial-ownership

Call to open up company and beneficial ownership registers across Europe

blogs Open Ownership · Mar 2022

Open Ownership joins more than 120 civil society organisations in calling on European Union Institutions and Member States to act urgently to open company and beneficial ownership registers to better track the hidden wealth of Russian oligarchs and to ensure...

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Beneficial ownership transparency and the fight against grand corruption in Nigeria

blogs Favour Ime and Louise Russell-Prywata · Feb 2022

Beneficial ownership transparency and the fight against grand corruption in Nigeria: The highs and lows of Nigeria’s journey

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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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Armenia and Latvia become first countries to publish data in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

blogs Open Ownership · Sep 2021

Armenia and Latvia have become the first countries to publish beneficial ownership data in line with Open Ownership’s Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS).

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Should countries charge for beneficial ownership data access?

blogs Peter Low and Tymon Kiepe · Jun 2021

The economic value of the reuse of beneficial ownership data can be considerable. In this blog post, Tymon Kiepe and Peter Low discuss the merits of governments making data available for free.

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Connecting the dots between beneficial ownership and procurement data: improving processes and identifying risk

blogs Jack Lord · Jan 2021

Dr Jack Lord is a Member and Director at Open Data Services Cooperative and a leading expert on integrating the data and policy aspects of open data. He is the current lead author of the Beneficial Ownership Standard and, with...

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