Open Ownership

OpenOwnership is the initiative of a group of leading organizations advocating for greater financial transparency and an end to anonymous company ownership and control structures. We do this by providing technology and technical assistance that supports both publishers and users of beneficial ownership data. Through our partners and independently, we aim to lead the creation of an open data and policy ecosystem that ends the abuse of anonymously owned companies by money launderers, corrupt politicians and businesses, and tax evaders. In April 2017 we launched the OpenOwnership register, the first global public beneficial ownership register in the world. The OpenOwnership register and data standard should enable businesses to know who they are doing business with, financial institutions to know who their customers are, citizens to see who wins public contracts, and law enforcement to hold individuals accountable for crime and corruption. We are developing an associated data standard and have committed partnerships from governments and companies to the next phase.