@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialIn late 2024, my former teammates at Open Ownership / Open Data Services supported consultant data analysts working for the Swiss government, comparing the planned data model for this register with the one provided by the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialSwitzerland's national beneficial ownership register - Schweizerisches Transparenzregister or TranspaReg - becomes operational today
www.transpareg.admin.ch/de/newnsb/L0...
It is only accessible to law enforcement, government and financial intermediaries
@openownership.bsky.socialIn this blog post, we share how Opening Extractives, jointly implemented with the EITI, partners with resource-rich countries to move #BeneficialOwnership #transparency from disclosure into progress towards practical use, with examples from #Armenia & #Ghana.
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialToday is the last day of the pilot project of Switzerland's Transparency Register (TranspaReg) where up to 8000 legal entities have tested submitting their beneficial ownership information ahead of the full TranspaReg launch tomorrow www.transpareg.admin.ch/de/pilot
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ญ๐ฌ - a new report from the European Union's Global Facility on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism
@openownership.bsky.socialOver 100 jurisdictions have now built #BeneficialOwnership registers. The next frontier is making those registers work together: connecting information across borders so that investigators, tax authorities, and compliance professionals can follow the money wherever it leads.
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialOwnership data on the worldโs 500 largest corporate groups and their 126,000+ subsidiaries - now published in Beneficial Ownership Data Standard format
stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/ownership-da...
#beneficialownership #UBO #corporatestructures #opendata #openstandards
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialInvestigating and uncovering ultimate beneficial owners using Amazon Neptune graph data in Linkurious Enterprise - new on the AWS database blog
aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa...
#beneficialownership #UBO #graphdatabases #AML #corporatestructures
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialBack in July 2026, I found that only seven EU member states had implemented legitimate interest access to their beneficial ownership registers as required by the Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive
#beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #UBO #AML #AMLR #6AMLD
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialThese 18 EU countries now have two months to complete their transposition of 6AMLD and to notify the European Commission
#beneficialownership #UBO #AML #6AMLD #legitimateinterest @transparency-eu.bsky.social
@openownership.bsky.socialWhy is the use of #BeneficialOwnership information in #procurement one of the key focus areas in our 2025โ2030 strategy?
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialNearly a year after the country exited the Financial Action Task Force's grey list, what do the latest stats tell us about the state of beneficial ownership transparency and UBO information quality in South Africa?
@openownership.bsky.social๐ข We are #hiring!
Open Ownership is seeking a Philippines-based #consultant to design and conduct a usability assessment of the #BeneficialOwnership registry in the #Philippines, working alongside the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Apply by 11 October: www.openownership.org/en/about/job...
@openownership.bsky.social๐ Last chance to register! Join us this Wednesday, 23 September for the launch of our new #BeneficialOwnership #transparency Evidence Centre.
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialThe T-rank team has examined some of the challenges that data users face when trying to uncover ultimate beneficial ownership using information from Denmark's Central Business Register (Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister / CVR)
@openownership.bsky.socialLooking for evidence on what works in #BeneficialOwnership #transparency reform?
On Wednesday, 23 September we are launching the BOT Evidence Centre, a new library showcasing the impact of beneficial ownership transparency.
Register: www.openownership.org/en/blog/onli...
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social22 European countries - newly including Czechia, Denmark and Slovenia - now make their beneficial ownership information searchable via the EU's Beneficial Ownership Registers Interconnection System (BORIS)
@openownership.bsky.social#BeneficialOwnership (BO) #transparency has become a mainstream policy expectation in good natural resource governance. In this blog post, we share how Opening Extractives has partnered with resource-rich countries to support progress on BO data use.
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialNew feature on OpenCheck: Watchlist - spot when a companyโs record change, without watching the registers stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/watchlist-sp...
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#LEI #opendata #openstandards #opensource #sanctions #beneficialownership #UBO #AML #CDD
@br00t4c.bsky.socialTreasury kills Corporate Transparency Act, erases shell-company database
Crime truly is legal now. This was a nuclear assault on transparency. We will all pay the price.