blogs Kadie Armstong and Christina Berger · Jan 2021
It has been four years since the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) introduced the requirement that governments must collect and publish information on beneficial owners (people who significantly control the activities of mining and extractives companies and/or benefit from them...
blogs Tymon Kiepe and Ines Schjolberg Marques · Sep 2020
Beneficial ownership transparency - knowing who ultimately controls and benefits from a company - is critical to fighting corruption and preventing illicit financial flows. Making beneficial ownership transparency the norm in the extractives sector can reduce the potential for corrupt...
blogs Peter Low · Aug 2020
Globally, more than 90 countries have made commitments to establish beneficial ownership (BO) registers, but there are still comparatively few examples of full implementation and publication. Each new experience of implementation provides significant learnings on how to optimise reforms to...
news Thom Townsend and Mark Robinson · Apr 2020
OpenOwnership, the world’s leading experts on beneficial ownership transparency, and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mining, are teaming up to tackle corruption and open up ownership in the...
News Mar 2020
Myanmar EITI has recently launched their new beneficial ownership register of companies in the extractives sector. Hot on the heels of Nigeria at the end of 2019, the register covers the lucrative oil, gas and mining sectors in the nation....
news OpenOwnership · Jan 2020
At the end of last year Nigeria published Africa’s first beneficial ownership register, and the first globally to focus on the lucrative oil, gas and mining sectors. The OpenOwnership team has been assessing the register’s performance and analysing the quality...