Stephen Abbott Pugh·9h agoAMLA has listed the fields. Nobody has named the formatMapping the EU’s (nearly) final customer due diligence standards against the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, field by field
Stephen Abbott Pugh·6d agoThe EU has written down what a beneficial ownership data standard must holdMapping the final EU formats for beneficial ownership information against the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, field by field
Stephen Abbott Pugh·Nov 2Where did this come from, and is it still true?Why OpenCheck records identifiers, dates, publishers and annotations on every Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) statement
Stephen Abbott Pugh·Oct 18How OpenCheck uses Estonia’s e-Business Register’s bulk files and APIsEstonia is one of the best places to test what open company data can do
Stephen Abbott Pugh·Oct 16Testing Estonia's beneficial ownership register against its own shareholder listsA register of beneficial owners is only as good as what companies tell it. Most registers have no easy way to check what is submitted
Stephen Abbott Pugh·Oct 9Open all the way down: why OpenCheck is built on open source, open data and open standardsA country that collects ownership data should be able to understand it, keep it, download it and take it elsewhere. Open standards are what…
Stephen Abbott Pugh·Oct 5What an open ownership register adds: testing the UK PSC register against the OECD’s global…How the UK's open ownership information helps build on the OECD’s global register of the 500 largest multinational corporate groups
Stephen Abbott Pugh·Oct 5What the OECD’s register of the world’s 500 largest corporate groups tells us about who owns whatLast month the OECD and the UN Statistics Division published their Global Register of the world’s 500 largest multinational groups in the…
Stephen Abbott Pugh·Sep 16Watchlist: spot when a company’s records change, without watching the registersMost beneficial ownership and corporate ownership data is published as a snapshot. You download a file or query an API and you get the…
Stephen Abbott Pugh·Sep 2BackgroundCheck: screening the people behind a companyCompanies do not launder money; people do. Behind every legal entity sits a set of natural persons - directors, officers, shareholders…
