Open Ownership

19/08/2026

In our latest Disclosure newsletter, we introduce the bold new Evidence and Measurement (BEAM) programme, share recent research in this area, and highlight international examples of impact measurement in practice.

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18/08/2026

Esta semana somos parte de la 11ª Semana Regional de Integridad Empresarial, organizada porAlliance for Integrity.

Únase a nuestro panel de discusión sobre: Transparencia que compite: los registros de beneficiarios finales como ventaja estratégica para la integridad empresarial en América Latina.

Nuestra Agustina De Luca forma parte del panel con:
- María del Carmen Benítez, Director General of Persons, Legal Structures and Beneficial Owners of the Ministry of Economy and Finance
- Lilian Maria Beatriz del Carmen Aguilar, Director of Resistencia Contable del Paraguay
- Francisco Manuel Cabrera Sanabria, Prosecutor in the Specailised Unit of Economic Crimes and Anticorruption
- Juan Manuel Ortiz, Director of UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Paraguay office

La sesión examinará cómo la información sobre los verdaderos dueños de las empresas puede utilizarse de en procesos de debida diligencia empresarial, contratación pública y prevención del lavado de activos.

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12/08/2026

“Much of the thinking about how to improve corporate transparency has already been done. What’s needed next is a champion.”

Our Executive Director, Thom Townsend makes the case for the UK to use its FATF presidency to push for connecting global company ownership data.

Read more: news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/tax-authorities-cant-see-across-borders-the-uk-can-fix-that

11/08/2026

ICYMI – In our latest Disclosure newsletter, we take a look at what can be done to make it easier to measure the impact of reforms.

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10/08/2026

“Africa’s resource-based industrialisation ambitions cannot be built on foundations we cannot see clearly. Knowing who really owns Africa’s resources is not a peripheral question. It is a precondition for the future we are trying to build together.” – Mr. Abdoulaye Coulibaly, Director of Governance and Economic Reforms Department at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

Mr. Abdoulaye Coulibaly spoke at a side event organised by Open Ownership, convened with the Africa Network during the African Union Specialised Technical Committee on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration in Abidjan.

07/08/2026

In our latest Disclosure newsletter, we take a look at what can be done to make it easier to measure the impact of reforms.

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06/08/2026

Earlier this year, participants completed our RISE BOT Africa programme – a Regional Initiative to Sustain Expertise on Beneficial Ownership Transparency. Bringing together legal practitioners and officials from across Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Zambia, we held a comprehensive training-of-trainers initiative designed to empower participants to become champions of . The results are already surpassing our aims.

Read more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/supporting-beneficial-ownership-transparency-implementation-xhjvc

05/08/2026

A decade on from 2016’s London Anti-Corruption Summit, the UK has another opportunity to revolutionise corporate by connecting ownership data.

Four priorities stand out:
- Reliable cross-border access to ownership data
- Connected data
- Real estate transparency
- Common data standards

Read Thom Townsend’s piece in full in Bloomberg Tax: news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/tax-authorities-cant-see-across-borders-the-uk-can-fix-that

04/08/2026

Over the past decade, governments have committed significant resources to reforms. As that investment grows, it is increasingly important to ensure these reforms are delivering genuine social and economic benefits. And so, measuring the impact of beneficial ownership transparency is not purely an academic exercise—it is an essential accountability mechanism.

This month's newsletter looks at Making it easier to measure the impact of beneficial ownership transparency reforms.

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03/08/2026

Our partner organisation Open Contracting is a Senior Data Support Manager to help change the world with public data.
This role is based in Asia. Read more and reply: https://open-contracting-partnership.breezy.hr/p/a78abec92782-senior-data-support-manager

The submission deadline is September 1, 2026 Summary The Open Contracting Partnership is hiring a Senior Data Support Manager for the Asia region (especially East, South and Southeast Asia) to help change the world with public procurement data. Governments around the world spend 13 trillion USD eve