news Zosia Sztykowski · Jan 2018
The OpenOwnership Register has been updated to include information about the beneficial owners of over 240,000 Ukrainian companies.
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...
news Tim Davies · Jun 2017
What specific fields of data should a beneficial ownership register collect and publish for re-use? How can that information be shared so that other individuals and systems can integrate, interpret, analyse and take action with it?
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 Zosia Sztykowski · Mar 2017
On April 3, 2017, the public beta of the OpenOwnership Register launches. Below, we answer some frequently asked questions about the project and the register. Don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you’re wondering about something that isn’t covered...