Stephen Abbott Pugh·14h 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·4d agoAgents are a new kind of reader. Ownership data has to be written for them tooHow OpenCheck tells AI agents where to look, what a question costs and how to read the answer — and what twelve evals showed
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
Erniwati87·Oct 26Over 1 Million Companies Blocked! Did You Report Your Beneficial Ownership?Over 1 Million companies has been blocked in December 2025! Cause failure to report Beneficial Ownership (BO) has serious consequences.
Stephen Abbott Pugh·Oct 19OpenCheck’s watchlist as perpetual KYC: from “what changed?” to “what did you decide?”Spotting that a company’s record changed is the easy part. Saying whether it matters, and keeping a record of what you did about it, is…
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
