The final version of the EU regulation setting the formats for submitting beneficial ownership information was approved on 13 May 2026 ec.europa.eu/transparency... #beneficialownership #UBO #AMLR

New on OpenCheck: See if the entity being looked up is part of the OECD / UN Statistics Division's Multinational Enterprise Information Platform which captures the 126,000+ subsidiaries linked to the world's largest 500 multinational corporations. See example opencheck.world?lei=549300QK... #LEI

“The UK Government Open Standards initiative is about to be announced with a reinvigorated agenda” github.com/co-cddo/open... Anyone know more? The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard that I’m using for OpenCheck was approved years ago but sits unloved on a gov.uk shelf www.gov.uk/government/p...

📢 COMMUNIA, together with 35 co-signing organisations, has published an open letter urging MEPs to protect the use of open standard licences for public sector information in the Digital Omnibus. ✉️Read the open letter and share it with your representative! communia-association.org/2026/07/06/o...

A complete BODS snapshot of every Estonian company holding a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), combining the global #LEI graph with the Estonian national register's shareholders, officers and beneficial owners github.com/StephenAbbot... Created as part of OpenCheck project opencheck.world #GODIN

Devonians were horrified to learn last week of plans for a massive AI data centre near Great Torrington, north Devon. The proposals from company XLinks Ltd would cover 850 acres of farmland. But who owns the land? I decided to investigate. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The World Bank will host the launch of its Global Hub for Beneficial Ownership Transparency (gloBOT) on 8 July 2026 www.worldbank.org/en/events/20... #beneficialownership #UBO #AML

A complete BODS v0.4 snapshot of every Estonian company holding a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), combining the global LEI graph with the Estonian national register's shareholders, officers and beneficial owners github.com/StephenAbbot... Created as part of my OpenCheck project opencheck.world

Trump called Infantino on Wednesday to get Balogun's red card lifted. Nice to ride alon with Tyler Pager on what will be seen (and is) in many parts as one of the biggest scandals in World Cup history. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...

President Trump’s fans and other investors had bet on a speculative cryptocurrency called #$TRUMP, hoping that its value would soar with his return to the White House. But while many of his followers lost money, Trump walked away with a $636 million payout. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

“Trump likely to pardon pollution violators as he privately weighs clemency for Diddy, other high-profile figures including Jho Low: sources” - @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-w...

“The Congress of Honduras has approved the Transparency and Centralized Beneficial Ownership Registry Law, introducing new identification and reporting obligations for legal entities and legal arrangements operating in the country” chambers.com/articles/hon...

Nearly one million people who bought President Trump’s memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion, a report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm found.  nyti.ms/4wucpPy

A complete BODS v0.4 snapshot of every Estonian company holding a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), combining the global LEI graph with the Estonian national register's shareholders, officers and beneficial owners github.com/StephenAbbot... Created as part of my OpenCheck project opencheck.world

All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, to give to U.S. President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/44batiO

Want to run a fake London estate agency and repeatedly scam people out of thousands of pounds through rental scams? The good news is that for £250 you can join all the official renters' protection schemes and do it with a UK government badge of approval! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-ren...

If even a company the size of Moody’s can’t access up-to-date beneficial ownership data from a lot of EU countries, we have a bad state of affairs www.moodys.com/web/en/us/ky... #beneficialownership #UBO #6AMLD #AMLR

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Lessons so far from building opencheck.world: 1) Data quality and predictability help AI do the right thing 2) API access and documentation is crucial 3) Exposing the need for entity-resolved knowledge graphs stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/lessons-lear... #LEI #openstandards #opensource #AMLR

New ways to explore OpenCheck results 1) QuickCheck ⚡️- Fast customer due diligence risk checks 2) FullCheck 🕵 - Mapping wider corporate network for enhanced due diligence Check out example of Shell PLC opencheck.world?lei=21380068... #LEI #opendata #openstandards #beneficialownership #CDD #EDD

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

“The case is the latest victory for the UK tax authority over tax loopholes involving [limited liability partnership] structures as it seeks to prevent abuse of the vehicles. Experts are now weighing up the impact for around 50,000 LLPs” www.ft.com/content/796a...

OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake ft.trib.al/CPgCAny

Watch UK beneficial ownership information change in real time  as open, standardised data bods.stream #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #UBO #datastandards #interoperability #opensource

Great to see @opensanctions.org expanding its PEPs data coverage, including a focus on Australia www.opensanctions.org/articles/202... The more PEPs data OpenSanctions has, the better the results are on OpenCheck when users do risk checks on Australian companies which have an LEI opencheck.world

Europeans: Beneficial ownership data is a massive privacy risk! We have to make it hard to access UK: We have an public streaming API that will let you see ownership changes in real time

New on OpenCheck: explaining where beneficial ownership data is and isn't available publicly - and signposting how users can request access to beneficial ownership information on companies from national authorities opencheck.world?lei=54930050... #LEI #opendata #openstandards #CDD #opensource

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, failed to obtain a license to operate in the EU after a key regulator expressed concerns about its history of financial-crime violations.

President Trump reaped at least $2.2 billion from his family’s holdings last year, a new filing shows.

🚨NEW w/ @unearthednews.bsky.social and @datadesk.eco Reform UK mega-donor Christopher Harborne’s company, AML Global, is contracted to fill US military planes with fuel from refineries that use Russian, Iranian, and Venezuelan oil, we can reveal: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2026/07/01/c...

Reform UK’s biggest donor owns a company contracted to supply fuel to aircraft from refineries that make extensive use of Russian oil, The Times can reveal. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The Isle of Man has passed the Verification of Entity Registration Bill to update the crown dependency’s legal framework in line with Financial Action Task Force recommendations on maintaining adequate, accurate and up-to-date beneficial ownership information www.iomdfenterprise.im/news-events/...

Today marks the start of new beneficial ownership information access rules for Sweden and Latvia - but they are moving in different directions... 🧵 #beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #6AMLD #AMLR

Illegal fishing costs billions each year. Hidden vessel ownership is one of the reasons why. A new brief from Global Fishing Watch explores how #UBO transparency can expose illicit activity, protect seafood supply chains and strengthen enforcement. 🌊 https://bit.ly/43zUomn

Ireland a hub for shell companies facilitating cross-border tax frauds, says EU prosecutor (via The Irish Times) www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

New paper from Giovanni Peri et al: "The immigration impact on population, labor productivity, investments and TFP in OECD countries." Finds non-OECD immigration boosts productivity & GDP per worker because it increases human capital & stimulates investment. www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/sint...

MP @steffanaquarone.bsky.social asked about the number of overseas entities who (a) disclosed another entity as their beneficial owner; (b) declared that they don't have a beneficial owner; or (c) declared a trust as their beneficial owner questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... Answer:

"Ensuring that beneficial ownership registers are comprehensive in coverage and contain reliable information is a work in progress for several jurisdictions" - OECD Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes www.oecd.org/en/networks/...

Watch UK beneficial ownership information change in real time  as open, standardised data bods.stream #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #UBO #datastandards #interoperability #opensource

New: Russian hackers were behind a cyberattack last year that crippled Jaguar Land Rover that cost billions in damages and harmed the British economy, investigators have concluded. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w...

"Without a functioning mechanism to identify the real owners of legal entities, the United States leaves uncontested one of the most basic and widely exploited channels for financial crime", writes @natesibley.bsky.social in a new Hudson Institute report www.hudson.org/economics/us...

For the last year, Open Ownership, the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime, and London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Risk Intelligence have convened over 50 experts from the private sector, international bodies, and civil society to answer the question: www.openownership.org/en/publicati...

New ways to explore OpenCheck results 1) QuickCheck ⚡️- Fast customer due diligence risk checks 2) FullCheck 🕵 - Mapping wider corporate network for enhanced due diligence Check out example of Shell PLC opencheck.world?lei=21380068... #LEI #opendata #openstandards #beneficialownership #CDD #EDD

"More than half of UK regulated firms are struggling to verify who ultimately owns or controls the businesses they deal with, according to research from SmartSearch" theintermediary.co.uk/2026/06/more...

FYI, our story today includes this chart. Great deal of work involved in building it. Trump & Lutnick families have financial ties to at least 14 companies/executives pursuing federal financial assistance for mining projects or permits from Trump administration. Seeking $8.9 billion in total. (!)

Since the start of President Trump’s second term, The New York Times has been documenting examples of moves by members of Mr. Trump’s family or the families of top aides to profit off of Trump administration policy actions. Today we take another look.

On top of offering live due diligence checks for the 3m+ companies with a Legal Entity Identifier, OpenCheck now builds historical timelines of changes using data from: 1) United Kingdom 2) New Zealand 3) Denmark 4) Estonia 5) Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation opencheck.world/changelog

Estonia's minister of justice has rejected imminent plans to restrict beneficial ownership information access www.err.ee/1610062666/p... #beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #UBO #6AMLD

Japan is currently the only G7 country which hasn’t legislated to create a beneficial ownership register. But that looks set to change in the autumn ahead of the country’s FATF evaluation in 2028 japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/pol...

Statistics from Companies House about its implementation of the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE) shows how there had been 27 applications to access ROE trusts data by 31 March 2026 - but only 8 applications were approved assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a2830...