@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialCare to have a guess at which company these are the OpenCheck risk signal results for? 🕵️ ⚠️
Answer: opencheck.world?lei=253400JT...
#LEI #sanctions #opendata #opensource #openstandards #beneficialownership #UBO #OSINT
@openownership.bsky.social🗞️ The latest Disclosure is out, with news on #BeneficialOwnership #transparency in Africa, where governments, regulators & regional institutions are using BO data to make better decisions on who wins public contracts, who receives #extractive licences & who pays tax.
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialA country that collects ownership data should be able to understand it, keep it, download it and take it elsewhere. Open standards are what make that possible
stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/open-all-the...
#opensource #openstandards #opendata #LEI #GODIN #beneficialownership
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialNigeria's Corporate Affairs Commission has struck off 500,000 inactive or non-compliant companies in the past year for failing to disclose their beneficial owners
@openownership.bsky.socialThis week in Brussels, #OpeningExtractives joined #EITI2026 to explore how #BeneficialOwnership data can move from #transparency commitments to practical use in the #extractive sector, as well as to celebrate the launch of the revised Opening Extractives Licensing Manual.
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialFrom 5 October 2026, Latvia’s Register of Enterprises (Uzņēmumu reģistrs) has announced changes to the way that it captures the type and extent of control exercised by beneficial owners over Latvian companies
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialGibraltar's public beneficial ownership register now lives at ubo.fsc.gi as responsibility for running it has moved to the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission.
The register used to be hosted at uboregister.egov.gi
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialMalta has updated its beneficial ownership rules for trusts and introduced legitimate interest access to information on the people behind express trusts
#beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #UBO #AML #AMLR #6AMLD
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialWhy focusing on interoperability, usable data and beneficial ownership verification will be key to the success of the EU Inc proposals, writes Emilia Aguirre for FEBIS
#EUInc #beneficialownership #UBO #AML #openstandards #interoperability
@openownership.bsky.socialOne of the sessions will focus on #BeneficialOwnership data in practice: understanding who actually owns or controls companies in the oil, gas, and mining sectors, and how this information can be used to support national priorities and identify specific risks.
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialBermuda's Registrar of Companies Platform is developed and maintained by @fostermoore.bsky.social and since 2025 has collected information in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialBermuda has strengthened its beneficial ownership rules and introduced legitimate interest access to beneficial ownership information for the first time
@openownership.bsky.socialThe licensing manual is a practical guide on the use of beneficial ownership data in extractive licensing and contracting.
We will also bring together nine OE countries to discuss #BeneficialOwnership data in practice.
@openownership.bsky.social#WeekendReading: Have you signed up to our Disclosure newsletter? Our latest issue is on measuring the impact of #BeneficialOwnership #transparency reforms, with international examples of exciting new work in this area. New edition coming soon.
đź“° Read the latest newsletter: bit.ly/disclosure-32
@openownership.bsky.socialWe’re #hiring!
Open Ownership is hiring a consultant in the #Philippines to carry out a usability assessment of the Securities Exchange Commission Philippines #BeneficialOwnership registry, HARBOR.
Apply by 11 October: www.openownership.org/en/about/job...
@stephenabbottpugh.bsky.socialWhy and how Latvia has kept its beneficial ownership information public while adopting article 15 of the EU's Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive
@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