Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group www.euractiv.com/news/belgian...

MONEYVAL findings for evaluations between 2015-2024: "18 of the 33 jurisdictions evaluated during the round had established beneficial ownership registers by the time of their on-site visits. However, these efforts have yet to reach full effectiveness" www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

For this week's issue of @economist.com I got to think hard about something I've not had to think about for more than 20 years: the world of dating and singles. What I found shocked me. Rates of singlehood (singledom) have been rising for decades, but have suddenly accelerated in recent years. 1/

Great to see @opencorporates.bsky.social stressing the value of using the Legal Entity Identifier from GLEIF and the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard from @openownership.bsky.social for legal entity knowledge graphs blog.opencorporates.com/2025/10/01/l... #knowledgegraphs #openstandards #GODIN

Great to see Ontario committing to creating a beneficial ownership register and aligning with Canada's federal practices after years of fantastic advocacy by the #EndSnowWashing coalition budget.ontario.ca/2025/fallsta... #beneficialownership

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Who owns/controls the news media across the European Union? 🇪🇺 📱 📰 📻 📺 media-ownership.eu Search, visualise and analyse data on the most influential news-producing organisations from every EU member state, thanks to the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/how-the-euro...

Breaking news: The package, which could add as much as 12% to Musk’s ownership stake through equity awards, was approved by a majority of 75% of votes cast at Tesla’s annual meeting at its Texas gigafactory. on.ft.com/3LxdIe5

Who owns/controls the news media across the European Union? 🇪🇺 📱 📰 📻 📺 media-ownership.eu Search, visualise and analyse data on the most influential news-producing organisations from every EU member state, thanks to the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/how-the-euro...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Sale of Telegraph Media Group in “fresh turmoil” after the paper linked expected buyer John Thornton (RedBird Capital chair) to the suspected ringleader of an alleged Chinese spy ring, running a 2024 photo of him with senior CCP figure Cai Qi in Wednesday’s issue www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Belgium to hold security meeting after drone sightings at airports and military bases

Yesterday the French Senate adopted a anti-financial crime bill to crack down on those abusing shell companies in France by giving officials more powers to report suspicious behaviour and creating a national register of fictitious identities and nominee front men www.senat.fr/dossier-legi...

Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes

Land records reveal a 33.7 million pounds London mansion owned by sanctioned Iranian banker Ali Ansari, accused of aiding the IRGC. www.occrp.org/en/news/sanc...

The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, congratulated Zohran Mamdani on his election victory. “New Yorkers faced a clear choice — between hope and fear,” Khan wrote in a statement on social media, “and just like we’ve seen in London — hope won.”

Shock as Orbán allies buy Hungary’s most-read newspaper

On Monday, Bermuda's Registrar of Companies took over responsibility for the UK overseas territory's updated beneficial ownership register. Watch this recording on YouTube to learn more about how the new register works www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_E... #beneficialownership #openstandards

See how the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) sits at the centre of a global network of mapped identifiers using a Jupyter Notebook created by the GLEIF and Open Data Services teams github.com/Global-Open-... Learn more: gleif.org/en/newsroom/... #LEI #opendata #openstandards #datastandards

EXC: Rachel Reeves plans cuts to home energy efficiency schemes to pay for bills to be reduced. Energy industry warns of “disastrous” consequences in the long term. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

At least 26 billionaires donated to groups opposing Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who is the Democratic New York City mayoral candidate.

Because fossil fuel companies often have complex transnational corporate structures, it’s hard to know who really owns them. This lack of transparency also makes it difficult to enforce effective regulation. [5/6]

We welcome the @josephestiglitz.bsky.social's report and back its call for a global panel on inequality, modelled after the IPCC. It’s time to scale up the work we’ve championed for over 10 years to measure and address the drivers of inequality. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

SCOOP: The Commission is moving to recognize “legitimate interest” as the legal basis for training AI models under the GDPR. The proposal, part of the upcoming digital omnibus, is now under formal discussion between DG CNECT and DG JUST. w/ Matthew Newman www.mlex.com/mlex/article...

💥 BREAKING 💥 Scottish Government commits to anti-corruption strategy with improved transparency of trust structures (as proposed by Rhoda Grant in parliament). This is an important commitment that will help prevent kleptocrats and oligarchs investing their ill-gotten gains in Scottish property.

Beneficial ownership registers in the Overseas Territories "should offer ... access to a broad range of legitimate users, supporting proactive investigations, deterring concealment of illicit gains + promoting maximum transparency" - Stephen Doughty questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

The Swedish Competition Authority says that the move to legitimate interest access to beneficial ownership data in Sweden may make it more difficult to control/monitor suppliers and hinder anti-corruption work to exclude criminal actors from public procurement www.konkurrensverket.se/informations...

Looks like Jersey Gov has decided to diverge from AMLD6, despite years of saying they were going to follow the EU's approach. The consultation proposes a legit interest test that differs significantly from AMLD6, and follows the more restrictive approach by the Overseas Territories.

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

What can ownership data tell us about global emissions and accountability? Join GEM’s webinar introducing the Global Energy Ownership Tracker — featuring real-world examples of how the dataset uncovers hidden links across the energy system. 🗓 Nov 5 | 11am EST / 4pm UTC zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🗣️📈 Today, I'm happy to release a new tool empowering chatbots like AnthropicAI's Claude to create charts with Datawrapper, a leading newsroom tool for publishing data.

"Minor gaps in the regime for the transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons": questionable decision by CFATF to re-rate British Virgin Islands as largely compliant with FATF's Recommendation 24 before many promised changes implemented 🤨 bitrix24public.com/cfatf.bitrix...

The Government of Jersey has launched a public consultation on extending access to its central beneficial ownership register to people with legitimate interest. Submissions due by 30 January 2026. Full details: www.gov.je/Government/C... #beneficialownership #legitimateinterest

"Collect data and information in a consistent way in all Member States.... from independent and reliable sources" 👏👏👏 Draft customer due diligence and beneficial ownership technical standards for the European Union www.eba.europa.eu/publications... #AML #UBO #AMLA #beneficialownership

An SQLite extension that adds graph database capabilities with full Cypher query support (created by AgentFlare AI) Github: github.com/agentflare-a... Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4575...

“France's lower house on Friday rejected two proposals for taxing the ultra-rich after earlier approving a new tax on assets kept in holding companies. A popular proposal from economist Gabriel Zucman called for a 2% tax on assets over €100 million” - @france24.com www.france24.com/en/france/20...

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

About 700 killed in Tanzania election protests, opposition says

From July: Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality news.un.org/en/story/202... “There’s a real need to know who the beneficial owners are behind companies and legal structures used to conceal wealth” #beneficialownership #FFD4

More than 200,000 French companies are at risk of being deregistered if they fail to conform with updated beneficial ownership regulations, according to Les Echos Entrepreneurs and Jean-Charles Chemin of Legapass entrepreneurs.lesechos.fr/creation-ent...

Every day, thousands of editors on #Wikidata provide open, reliable and trustworthy data to the world helping make technology more open and inclusive. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Wikidata has been recognized by the @DPGAlliance as a #DigitalPublicGood.

Violent protests have broken out in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, after an election where the two main opposition candidates were disqualified and government critics abducted, arrested or killed

The Seychelles has issued a circular reminding all legal persons and legal arrangements registered there that beneficial ownership information needs to be verified by the actual beneficial owners themselves - and not by professional intermediaries fsaseychelles.sc/component/ed...

"Candy’s use of a Guernsey entity...highlights how the property billionaire – now Reform UK treasurer – benefits from the offshore financial system." "Guernsey’s offshore status allows [him] to route funds through so-called tax-neutral jurisdictions offering corporate secrecy & limited disclosure."

Who owns the world’s energy & heavy industry infrastructure — and what can that data reveal? Join our upcoming webinar introducing GEM’s Global #EnergyOwnership Tracker, a dataset mapping 48k+ assets & 26k+ companies worldwide. 🗓 Nov 5 | 11am EST / 4pm UTC 🔗 Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

By 1 November 2025, all Chinese companies, partnerships and foreign companies operating in China need to have submitted information about how they are owned/controlled in line with the new Measures for the Administration of Beneficial Ownership Information www.pbc.gov.cn/en/3688253/3...

"A dark fleet of tankers carried tens of billions of dollars of Iranian and Russian oil to Asia, evading Western sanctions. Reuters found the ships were connected by one thing: a small insurance company in New Zealand, run by a British family" - @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized gains reut.rs/4ovbCdD

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres before Cop30 Story by me and Wajã Xipai. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

While the EU opens the door to water down its climate law, our new report - due out tmrw - reveals the stark gap in emissions between Europe’s elite and ordinary people. Reporting on EU watering down #climate laws by @l-guillot.bsky.social 👇 www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...