MSCI deadline tests Indonesia’s resolve to fix opaque ownership A looming MSCI Inc decision over Indonesia’s market status is highlighting the challenge regulators face to address opaque ownership structures and poor disclosures by the nation’s biggest companies.

"Regulators face a dilemma in Indonesia: they are trying to identify ultimate ownership and stakes in a system where tycoons routinely hide behind a web of related parties and affiliates to avoid scrutiny"

theedgemalaysia.com/node/797623

#beneficialownership #UBO

GitHub - StephenAbbott/beneficial-ownership-data: Expert Claude skill for beneficial ownership data, Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, international policy context, and country-specific registers Expert Claude skill for beneficial ownership data, Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, international policy context, and country-specific registers - StephenAbbott/beneficial-ownership-data

I created a Claude Skill for beneficial ownership data github.com/StephenAbbot...

Once installed, this can be invoked to help understand beneficial ownership queries informed by expert technical, policy and international examples from across the globe

#beneficialownership #openstandards #UBO #AML

#EnseignementSup #Université #Charte #IAg #UBO

Norway has become the 17th jurisdiction to make its beneficial ownership information searchable via the EU's Beneficial Ownership Registers Interconnection System (BORIS) 🇳🇴 🇪🇺

e-justice.europa.eu/topics/regis...

#6AMLD #UBO #beneficialownership

Open standard + open source code + open data + AI = A working beneficial ownership data validator and visualiser built in hours by me and Claude from @anthropic.com 🤖

www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...

#beneficialownership #openstandards #opensource #opendata #UBO #AML #AMLR #6AMLD #datastandards

The State of Beneficial Ownership: Join Stephen Abbott Pugh and David McCurdie of Spektr for a free webinar at 4pm CET on Tuesday 24 March to discuss the latest developments when it comes to working out who owns what

The State of Beneficial Ownership

Join me and David McCurdie of Spektr for a free webinar at 4pm CET on Tuesday 24 March to discuss the latest developments when it comes to working out who owns what

www.spektr.com/webinar/the-...

#beneficialownership #UBO #AMLR #6AMLD #AMLA

The State of Beneficial Ownership

Join me and David McCurdie of Spektr for a free webinar at 4pm CET on Tuesday 24 March to discuss the latest developments when it comes to working out who owns what

www.spektr.com/webinar/the-...

#beneficialownership #AMLR #6AMLD #CDD #AML #UBO #openstandards

MediumAxis Data Academy: Who Really Controls Global Business? Ultimate beneficial ownership data: Map 21M corporate links, trace cross-border investments & analyze global business structures with Orbis dataset.

Exclusive Research: Who Really Controls Global Business?

Ultimate beneficial ownership: Map 21M corporate links, trace cross-border investments; analyze global business structures with Orbis dataset.

mediumaxis.com/articles/who...
#CorporateGovernance #DueDiligence #BusinessIntelligence #UBO

Russian Sanctions: Evasion in Europe | George W. Bush Presidential Center

It recommends that the EU's Anti-Money Laundering Authority should create a single beneficial ownership database to streamline access for investigations www.bushcenter.org/publications...

#beneficialownership #openstandards #interoperability #datastandards #UBO #AMLA #AML #sanctions

Cayman unified on legitimate interests for beneficial ownership Premier André Ebanks said Cayman will stick with a beneficial ownership register open only to those with a legitimate interest.

The Cayman Islands has rejected UK Government demands for their beneficial ownership register to eventually become public

www.caymancompass.com/2026/03/13/c...

#beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #UBO #AML

Great to see that the @globalfishingwatch.org vision for ultimate beneficial ownership in fisheries includes a call to align with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard to enhance interoperability

globalfishingwatch.org/wp-content/u...

#beneficialownership #UBO #IUUFishing #openstandards

UBO Verify – Release Note | Kyckr

Learn about forthcoming improvements to UBO Verify, Kyckr's cross-border ownership discovery tool

developer.kyckr.com/guides/compa...

• Improved entity resolution
• Address-based verification
• Full audit trail for every resolution decision

#UBO #beneficialownership #AML

The State of Beneficial Ownership: a free webinar at 2pm CET on 24th March 2026 featuring Stephen Abbott Pugh from Understand beneficial ownership and David McCurdie from spektr

The State of Beneficial Ownership

Join me and David McCurdie of Spektr for a free webinar at 2pm CET on Tuesday 24 March to discuss the latest developments when it comes to working out who owns what

www.spektr.com/webinar/the-...

#beneficialownership #AMLR #6AMLD #CDD #AML #UBO #openstandards

Sweden has published a draft bill to introduce legitimate interest access to its national beneficial ownership register in line with the EU's Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive

www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-do...

#beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #UBO #6AMLD #AML

Guernsey has launched a public consultation about expanding access to its beneficial ownership register to allow those with legitimate interest to request information

www.gov.gg/article/2074...

Submissions due by 10 April 2026

#beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #UBO #AML

Ultimate beneficial ownership transparency helps reveal who really controls and profits from fishing vessels — strengthening accountability, licensing and enforcement.

Explore our new factsheet to learn why it matters. ⬇️
🔗 https://bit.ly/4kWmpfL

#UBO #IUUfishing

How people use offshore structures to hide the ownership of personal property | LSE British Politics People think offshore wealth is hidden in tax havens. In fact, it's the complex relationships between offshore structures that allow people to hide their wealth.

Professor @kristinsurak.bsky.social from the London School of Economics outlines recent research on how people use offshore structures to hide their ownership of personal property

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

#beneficialownership #opendata #openresearch #UBO

Exploring Ultimate Beneficial Ownership with Graph Technology - Graph Database & Analytics Explore how graph databases simplify Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) analysis, uncover complex ownership structures, and improve regulatory compliance.

Exploring beneficial ownership data with graph technology - new blog post from Erik Bijl at @neo4j.com sharing #opensource code + building on recent webinar

neo4j.com/blog/graph-d...

Github: github.com/erikbijl/neo...
Webinar: go.neo4j.com/WBREDU260210...

#beneficialownership #UBO #AML #Neo4J

Beneficial ownership consultation with industry Guernsey is set to go out to consultation with its financial services industry on allowing greater access to the island’s register of beneficial ownership information.

Guernsey is set to announce a consultation on widening access to its beneficial ownership register to allow people with legitimate interest to request information

guernseypress.com/news/2026/02...

#beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #UBO #AML

Insights from the United Kingdom’s People with Significant Control register In this research report, Maria Jofre (Data Analyst at Open Ownership) and Andres Knobel (Beneficial Ownership Lead Researcher at the Tax Justice Network) present the findings from their collaboration ...

These presentations by Andres/Maria share about a joint @openownership.bsky.social + @taxjustice.net research project unveiled in 2025 using UK data published in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard www.openownership.org/en/publicati...

#beneficialownership #UBO #openstandards #opendata

But seeing as US companies have now been exempted from submitting their beneficial ownership information to FinCEN's central register, this completely shifts the responsibility for understanding whether information is accurate to the banks/financial institutions.

#customerduediligence #CDD #UBO

How the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard can help EU member states to decipher information on complex corporate structures 🔍🇪🇺

www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...

#beneficialownership #openstandards #datastandards #interoperability #AMLR #AMLA #UBO #AML #CDD #customerduediligence #opensource

Using Companies House public beneficial ownership data, the @neo4j.com team demonstrates how some UK companies have more than 20 layers of ownership observable just in the UK data

github.com/erikbijl/neo...

#Neo4J #UBO #AML #graphdatabase @danneidle.bsky.social

Standardising ownership data on foreign companies and trusts buying real estate in the European Union

Why the EU needs to do more to harmonise and standardise data to achieve the goals of the EU AML package

stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/standardisin...

#beneficialownership #openstandards #UBO #AML

Un partenariat entre l’Université de Bretagne occidentale et la Marine nationale devrait créer de nouvelles formations Un partenariat entre l’Université de Bretagne occidentale et la Marine nationale, signé le 6 février, vise à rapprocher l’enseignement supérieur, la recherche scientifique et le monde de la défense. I...

4/4 Pour les marins, c'est une opportunité majeure de formation continue et d'évolution de carrière. 📈 Ce "lyannaj" entre le monde universitaire et militaire prépare les cadres de demain aux complexités géopolitiques et techniques de l'espace océanique. 🏆
#MarineNationale #UBO #Formation

The British Virgin Islands has released updated beneficial ownership guidelines including how people with legitimate interest will be able to request access from 1 April 2026 (spoiler: process is bad⚠️)

www.bvifsc.vg/sites/defaul...

#beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #UBO #AML

Senzing has announced a partnership with the Global Database team to "continue providing verified company intelligence sourced directly from official registries with market-leading entity resolution algorithms" senzing.com/senzing-enti...

#UBO #AML #CDD #entityresolution #ERKG

Greece has updated its beneficial ownership rules to allow access for those with legitimate interest to information on how both companies and trusts are owned/controlled 🇬🇷

www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...

#beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #UBO #6AMLD

#UBO
#Unidentified
#Blurry
#Object
#NightSky

Kenya is currently consulting on changes to its trusts legislation including the requirement to collect information on the beneficial owners of the trust and submit this to a new central register brs.go.ke/wp-content/u...

#beneficialownership #FATF #UBO #R25