Stephen Abbott Pugh
@stephenabbottpugh
Beneficial ownership transparency, UBO data and standardisation expert. Technical consultancy support Talk to me about the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
The Luxembourg Business Registers has introduced a new step where users requesting access to beneficial ownership information from the RBE (Registre des Bénéficiaires Effectifs) must indicate the reason for their enquiry www.lbr.lu/mjrcs-web-fr... #beneficialownership #legitimateinterest #6AMLD
Shareholders. Directors. Board members. Senior managing officials. Beneficial owners. Data linking all these corporate roles to entities can be represented in a common format using the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard. Learn how at opencheck.world #LEI #openstandards #opendata #AMLR
For the last five years, the data has been public and zero exemptions have been granted to withhold information where beneficial owners fear disclosure may pose risks to them
Gibraltar is removing free public access to its ultimate beneficial ownership register on 15th July 2026, according to new regulations gibraltarlaws.gov.gi/uploads/legi...
From today, people with legitimate interest should be able to find out the beneficial owners of companies and trusts from any EU member state, according to the deadline set out in the Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive. Based on my research, only 7 countries currently offer access... 🧵 #6AMLD
Learn more about some of the corporate groups which own the majority of UK vet practices on OpenCheck: Pets At Home Group PLC opencheck.world?lei=2138003Y... VetPartners Limited opencheck.world?lei=2138004W...
New on OpenCheck today: 1) Payments from energy companies to governments - data from @eitiorg.bsky.social 2) ESG data from @wikirate.bsky.social All linked thanks to the Legal Entity Identifier, open data and open standards See BP P.L.C. example: opencheck.world?lei=213800LH... #LEI #GODIN
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
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
The categories overlap in many cases. But a clear pattern is how concentrated the ownership is in the Crown Dependencies: Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man account for the large majority of both entity beneficial owners and trust beneficial owners
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:
Watch UK beneficial ownership information change in real time as open, standardised data bods.stream #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #UBO #datastandards #interoperability #opensource
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
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...
For the past two months, I’ve been building a new tool called OpenCheck and I want to share some of the lessons I’ve learned so far stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/lessons-lear... Test it out at opencheck.world
The New Zealand Companies Office is the latest data source to be added to OpenCheck, allowing anyone to do due diligence checks on the 4,000+ New Zealand entities which have a Legal Entity Identifier opencheck.world
Data interoperability stressed as the foundation of perpetual KYC in new briefing from the Data and Technology for Compliance Alliance. "The shift to pKYC is fundamentally dependent on data, its quality, timeliness, and interoperability" dt4calliance.eu/wp-content/u... #beneficialownership #UBO
This timeline feature can be turned on for any future data sources which provide robust access to historical ownership or control data #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #LEI #GODIN
Latest feature in OpenCheck: timeline of notable changes relating to a company, powered by open data from the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation and Companies House Check out example of how the ownership of Morrison's supermarket chain has changed opencheck.world?lei=213800IN...
Who owned it, and when Sometimes you need to look at years of beneficial ownership information changes to really understand a company's history New BODS timeline tool lets you do just that stephenabbott.github.io/bods-timeline/ #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #opensource #UBO
"Illegal fishing cannot be effectively addressed without transparency regarding who ultimately owns, controls, and benefits from those vessels and their operations" - @oceanaeurope.bsky.social europe.oceana.org/reports/fore...
OpenCheck now shows the securities - including sanctioned securities - linked to any entity with a Legal Entity Identifier, thanks to open data from the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, OpenFIGI and @opensanctions.org opencheck.world?lei=7LTWFZYI... #LEI #opendata #openstandards #GODIN
Ireland will enhance beneficial ownership register interoperability, collect data on the ownership of trusts/limited partnerships and verify information submitted to the Companies Registration Office by mid 2027, according to its new AML action plan assets.gov.ie/static/docum...
BP P.L.C. on Companies House: No information on beneficial owners or companies owned by BP find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0010... BP P.L.C. on OpenCheck: discover and explore data on dozens of entities linked to BP and its directors/board opencheck.world?lei=213800LH...
"The Kremlin-aligned Pravda network published more than 8 million articles to date, most of which were never read by humans because they were never meant to be. They were ingested by web crawlers ... and read out to users in a chatbot's polished voice." zenodo.org/records/2073...
Watch UK beneficial ownership information change in real time as open, standardised data bods.stream #beneficialownership #openstandards #opendata #UBO #datastandards #interoperability #opensource
And you can learn about the oil and gas projects linked to Petrobras, via reusing open data from @globalenergymon.bsky.social and @climatetrace.org opencheck.world?lei=5493000J...
Beneficial ownership information for Petrobras is available, mapped and explorable, thanks to Brazil's own open data from its corporate registry opencheck.world?lei=5493000J...