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opencorporates

@opencorporates

6 years

Endlich! 🇩🇪 OpenCorporates is proud to announce over 5 million German companies have been added to our database, making it our 130th jurisdiction 🇩🇪 #offeneregister

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Our latest article dives into the challenges and opportunities the digital age is facing in the fight against #FinancialCrime . Groups like @bellingcat are paving the way towards a world where corporate transparency is the norm, not the exception 👉

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Why open company data matters. @AnnMarlowe and @WendySiegelman used @OpenCorporates to dig into the corporate network of SCL Group / Cambridge Analytica:

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Company register data is critical for journalists, governments, business and civil society. By taking this step, the EU has quite simply transformed access to public data about companies. Thanks to @Senficon , @MichalBoni , @sylikiotis and all others who helped push it through!

Felix Reda

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6 years

Political agreement reached on the #OpenData aka #PublicSectorInfo directive! High value dataset categories including company ownership listed in annex, which will be crucial for investigative journalism & anti-corruption. Thanks to all colleagues who helped make this deal!

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NEW BLOG: OpenCorporates and OCCRP sign landmark Memorandum of Understanding to power anti-corruption investigations

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🇺🇸 Illinois official company data is now available in OpenCorporates – a win for open data advocacy which adds 2.8+ million companies to our database (inc those incorporated in the 3rd largest US city, Chicago)

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Hot off the press: we've published a long read exploring how the rise of new technologies will impact the world of company formation... and with it the use of companies for corruption, money-laundering and organised crime. #IACC18

Fireflies and algorithms — the coming explosion of companies

Company formation has, so far, been relatively unaltered by the data revolution.

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Big news – OpenCorporates smashes the 150 million companies barrier! Thanks to everyone around the world campaigning for open company data who helped us get here, and here's to the next 150m!

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4 years

Need to understand companies? Our database is a unique reference set for the world of companies. Find out more in our infographic >

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10 years

We are delighted that @wikidata won the Open Data Innovation Award. Well deserved. #ODIAwards #opendata #wikimedia http://t.co/ew7BqhJKWd

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7 years

Based on this investigation, we've put together the companies in a corporate grouping on our site: #GrenfellTower

The Guardian

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Complex chain of companies that worked on Grenfell Tower raises oversight concerns

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“We have lived in a Black Box world in many areas, but especially in company data. Black Box data can best be defined by its negatives – it is not clear where it came from, when it was captured or what it represents”. Read more of our Whitepaper here

Black Box Data addiction will kill your business, warns new report

For the past 50 years, companies, regulators, investigators and journalists have mostly used ‘Black Box’ data – data that is opaque, not well defined, uses proprietary identifiers, and has po…

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We live in a corporate world – companies are involved with everything we do, yet the disparity between the availability of personal and company information is striking. That's why we're introducing corporate events data – timelines for companies:

Introducing corporate events – timeline data for companies

We live in a corporate world – companies are involved with everything we do, yet the disparity between the availability of personal and company information is striking. We see the timeline of signi…

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Our company identifiers are now in @open_sanctions so you can explore more detail about sanctioned entities more easily – a win for the open data ecosystem. Find out more

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6 years

NEW BLOG: What the German company data tells us so far – ft @transparency_de @schirdewan @fabiodemasi @lisapaus @f_obermaier @jlstro @justus_vdaniels @fil_ter @georg_neu @JoachimGassen @luca and more

What the German company data tells us so far

You might have noticed that last week OpenCorporates launched the German company data. Bringing in the German company data was a mammoth task, as we’ve already started writing about – and we’…

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NEW BLOG: Creating the German open company data – how we did it #offeneregister #opendata

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The @OCCRP 's #29Leaks project further illustrates the role legal entities play in hiding illicit activity running across borders. We're proud that OpenCorporates' data was used in the investigation

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We're proud to support @OpenOwnership in making beneficial ownership data open to all by providing our legal entity data in bulk – which helps them enrich their datasets

Analyse and reuse beneficial ownership data from the UK, Denmark or Slovakia | Open Ownership Blog

Open Ownership has updated our data analysis toolkit to help those using open data published in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard. Up-to-date national beneficial ownership data from...

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7 years

Our Community & Advocacy Manager @herahussain is leaving. Here's her goodbye note for all of you. #opendata #opengov

Goodbye, thanks and what I learned at OpenCorporates

This is my last week at OpenCorporates after three amazing years of learning and action (see the Impact Report for 2016 and 2015). When I started working in OpenCorporates, I had been feeling stuck…

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11 years

Just broken through the 55 million companies mark! Yeah! And of course, it's all #opendata http://t.co/rozuBit1Pw

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2 years

610,000+ companies registered in North American jurisdictions were added to the OpenCorporates database in one month alone (28 April to 26 May 2022). It's because of this fresh, traceable & unified data that hundreds of organisations rely on us

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We're excited to announce OpenCorporates has been selected as one of the top 100 European businesses leading digital change! 🎉 We were selected for our use of tech to tackle social challenges #FTEuropeGrowth #GrowWithGoogle

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Until there are open company registers around the world "banks will find it very, very difficult to identify financial crime and to stop that happening" – @CountCulture speaks to the @OCCRP about recent cases of alleged financial crime. Read more >

U.S. Prosecutors Call Them 'Victim Banks.' Are They?

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New blog! European company data to go open (probably)

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Journalists behind Panama Papers leak, @f_obermaier and @b_obermayer , argue forcefully for public beneficial ownership registers:

Oligarchs hide billions in shell companies. Here's how we stop them | Frederik Obermaier and...

The Panama Papers have helped tax authorities recover over $500m around the world. Property registries could ensure that even more is recovered

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UK #BeneficialOwnership information is now in Read about it here: #opendata

UK Beneficial Ownership information now in OpenCorporates

On Friday UK Companies House published the first data from its new ‘Persons of Significant Control’ (PSC) register (colloquially known as Beneficial Ownership). This is a pretty big dea…

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German company data now available for download via @okfde ! Read this excellent thread by @stefanwehrmeyer on why public records about companies need to be open data

German company data now available for download via Open Knowledge Deutschland!

Yesterday, OpenCorporates added 5 million German companies and over 4 million associated officers from the official German company gazette notices and register. As well as being an important jurisd…

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@[email protected]

@stefanwehrmeyer

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Heute launchen wir – die Daten des Handelsregisters als Open Data von @opencorporates per API und als Download. Thread, warum das Thema wichtig ist.

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Montreal supreme court case rules in favour of @opencorporates in case against Quebec Company Register: Would love now to convert this into dialogue with Quebec government of the benefits of open company data #opendata

OpenCorporates wins Quebec court battle

Earlier this year, we reported on OpenCorporates’ legal battle against the Quebec company register in the Montreal Superior Court – 2 years earlier we had applied to the court to rule that th…

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Our founder @CountCulture spoke to @KoosCouvee about the importance of open access to company data in fighting financial crime & why the EU risks maintaining 'functional opacity' if it implements the Open Data Directive in a limited way @ACAMS_ml_com

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2017 was another momentous year for OpenCorporates, with more data, more features, and more impact! Find out what we achieved 🚀

OpenCorporates Impact Report – 2017

It was another momentous year for OpenCorporates. Over the course of the year we’ve laid the foundations to secure our public mission for the long term, advanced our relentless campaigns, and of co…

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8 years

A member of our community scraped Cayman Islands. Challenge: Find the dirt. #PanamaPapers

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We’re proud to announce Oliver Ratzesberger (former Teradata CEO) has joined OpenCorporates as the first chair of our board – to accelerate our mission of creating a trusted & transparent global business environment

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🇺🇸All 50 US States + the District of Columbia's official company data now available to all in one place: OpenCorporates

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Pleased to announce our plans to create a Global #BeneficialOwnership Register with partners

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OpenCorporates' data was instrumental to the recent @acdatacollectiv investigation which found millions of dollars of #covid relief funds for businesses in the US appears to have been claimed fraudulently #PPPloan

Covid relief funds: How OpenCorporates’ data helped expose exploitation of the US Paycheck Protec...

The US government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was intended to be a lifeline for small businesses hit hard by the impact of Covid-19. In recent months, $659 billion in low-interest loans has…

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This week the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on the Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill published its recommendations. We’re pleased to say they’ve accepted many of our suggestions, as well as those made with @Global_Witness and @TransparencyUK .

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4 years

Find out how @Global_Witness use our company data to investigate #corruption in our latest blog post

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2 years

Does your local multinational pay fare taxes? How do their supply chains affect you? We pleased to have helped @OECD and @UNStats shine a light on complex corporate structures

OECD Statistics

@OECD_Stat

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🆕data from @OECD_Stat and @UNStats to understand MNEs using publicly sourced data The Multinational Enterprise Information Platform shines a light on the 500 largest MNEs in greater detail than ever before, 123K subsidiaries and 113K websites detailed 👉

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OpenCorporates just turned 10. Read about how we are winning the war for corporate transparency, with ten achievements that we are most proud of... #transparency #companydata #opendata #anticorruption #antimoneylaundering #antifinancialcrime

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Press release: German company data must be available

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3 years

1) Analysis by @thetimes using OpenCorporates data 'shows that 7,000 companies registered to only 5 addresses in London made claims to the [UK] furlough scheme between last December and June' claiming 'up to £473m between them'

Fraud fears over firms’ furlough millions

Hundreds of companies set up after the government’s furlough scheme was established claimed up to £26.6 million from the taxpayer, The Times has learnt. Many of

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We are delighted to announce that our open database has surpassed 200 million companies! Our mission to provide transparent company data to all has never been more pertinent... #PandoraPapers #transparency #companydata #opendata #socialjustice

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We welcome the commitment by the G7 to ‘accelerate work on implementing and strengthening our beneficial ownership transparency registers, including by improving their accuracy, adequacy, and timeliness’ as outlined in the G7 Leaders’ Communiqué

G7 Leaders’ Communiqué - Executive summary

The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) , met in Elmau, Germany, on 26-28 June 2022. They were joined by the leaders of Argentina, India, Indonesia, Senegal and South Africa. President Zelenskyy if...

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New Jurisdiction: Bulgaria! This register adds 900,000 companies, taking OpenCorporates to over 140 million companies in total:

New Jurisdiction: Bulgaria (970,000 companies)

The Bulgarian company register adds over 900,000 entities, which takes us to more than 140 million companies in OpenCorporates in total.

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OpenCorporates was highlighted in the @FT as an example of the importance of digital databases in creating corporate transparency & enabling sanctions enforcement

The world needs to come clean about dirty money

Abramovich’s $50mn Aspen villa is apparently listed in his own name. That makes it a rarity among oligarchs’ assets

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9 years

Released: Our white paper on how #opendata was used to uncover powerful elite benefiting from Myanmar’s jade trade

New White Paper: How open company data was used to uncover the powerful elite benefiting from...

Today, we’re pleased to release a white paper on how OpenCorporates data was used to uncover the powerful elite benefiting from Myanmar’s multi-billion dollar jade industry, in a ground-break…

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We’re proud to expand our relationship with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation @GLEIF by joining their Vendor Relationship Group

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We’re delighted to announce that Sarah Arana-Morton has been appointed by OpenCorporates as CEO. Sarah succeeds founder Chris Taggart, as OpenCorporates targets ambitious growth in the emerging transparent company data market. #Transparency #Data

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The Pandora Papers came & went. Now what? Listen to our podcast where our CIO & Laeti Hoffmann, Market Specialist, Due Diligence at @DJCompliance , speak about why the investigation should be a wake up call – driving forward meaningful change

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We welcome the UK Government’s move today to accelerate the introduction of the Economic Crime Bill (including the Register of Overseas Entities), in addition to progressing Companies House reform #EconomicCrimeBill

Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill 2022: overarching documents

These documents relate to the bill stage of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022.

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Digging in through #PanamaPapers with data scientists, policy experts and due dilligence experts. #anticorruption

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" @google says 29% of websites have http://t.co/Rl4v80Ibor..There's #opendata everywhere." @timberners_lee #ODISummit http://t.co/N4eNt3qDmt

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Who finances tropical rainforest deforestation? The new Trase Finance tool uses OpenCorporates’ data to help answer this question by identifying the companies involved & charting the pathways they are connected by

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Great to be included as one of the "15 most exciting startups inside fintech hub @Level39CW " http://t.co/0Lsu0VDeNN http://t.co/DFPFSiD0VL

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We welcome the Register of Overseas Entities going live today in the UK – designed to root out the corrupt & other criminals from attempting to hide ill-gotten gains through UK property

New register to crack down on dirty money and corrupt elites in UK goes live

A new register being launched today will help root out corrupt elites using UK property to launder their illicit wealth.

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190 million companies: we're delighted that the @opencorporates database has grown to now include over 190,000,000 companies

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300+ million official company officer records are now in OpenCorporates – helping organisations the world over solve a range of verification, analytics & data management challenges. Search now >

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2019 will be another 'Year of the Graph': OpenCorporates is evidence No. 1: @TigerGraphDB

2019 will be another 'Year of the Graph': OpenCorporates is evidence No. 1

Graph databases are crossing the chasm to mainstream use cases, adding features such as machine learning to their arsenal and becoming more cloud and developer friendly. Last year was a breakout...

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Investigative reporters: need to search for companies to support your investigations? Our CIO will present a workshop at @cijournalism 's #CIJSummer conference on using OpenCorporates' API to access company data from 140 jurisdictions

A Beginner’s Guide to Using the OpenCorporates API to Power Your Investigation

Need to search for companies and their directors at scale to support your investigations? Simply use the OpenCorporates API. Attend this free beginners' tutorial designed to equip you with the basics...

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Webinar: join us on 8th December to hear about the White Box data revolution – replacing opaque, ill-defined & poor quality data with the transparent data you can trust to scale your anti-financial crime efforts. Register here:

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Almost two years since we filed suit against the Quebec company register, OpenCorporates has been appearing in the Montreal Superior Court, asking the court to rule that we may continue to make the Quebec company register data available to all. #opendata

Report from the open data frontline: OpenCorporates vs Quebec Registraire des Entreprises

Yesterday and today, almost two years since we filed suit against the Quebec company register, OpenCorporates has been appearing in the Montreal Superior Court – to ask the court to rule that we ma…

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Mapped: the UK Gender pay-gap reports. @allytibbitt of @FerretScot mapped the registered address of over 10,000 companies in the gender pay gap data. Results show companies in Aberdeen had significant pay-gaps.

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Supply chain transparency: we're proud that OpenCorporates' data helps @tiscreport promote transparency in global supply chains

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UK Companies House filings are now freely available. This is a win for transparency, better business & #opendata .

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6 years

New Jurisdiction 🇧🇷 Brazil adds a little over 9 million companies to OpenCorporates! Thanks to the transparency advocates in Brazil (both inside and outside government) who alerted us to the open data files, and helped us navigate the data.

New Jurisdiction: Brazil (9 million companies)

We’re proud to announce the addition of Brazil to OpenCorporates’ ever growing list of jurisdictions, adding a little over 9 million companies.

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Are you a corporate investigator, due diligence researcher or investigative journalist? Watch @greybrow53 deliver a masterclass on how to use open company data to investigate companies & uncover cross-border connections hiding in plain sight

Video: Corporate investigations masterclass & open data

Are you interested in investigating companies and uncovering cross-border connections that have been hiding in plain sight? Then you’re definitely going to want to watch this masterclass vide…

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Our data helped @acdatacollectiv investigate the impact of beneficial ownership transparency on illicit purchases of US property. To aid the investigation, our data was merged with corporate buyer data from the @zillow ZTRAX database

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We've just released v0.3 of our API in beta Many new API calls/features. #OpenData on > 60m companies #ODD14

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Who owns Hamburg? Rent under palm trees: @correctiv_org has combined OpenCorporates data with crowdsourced land data to shine a light on property owners and their business structures in Germany #offeneregister

Mieten unter Palmen

Alles begann am 05. Juni 2018: Ein Leser aus Hamburg teilt uns mit, wer der Eigentümer seiner Wohnung ist. Zu der Zeit recherchieren wir gemeinsam mit dem Hamburger Abendblatt und tausenden...

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Our @herahussain will speak on the gendered impact of corruption & how open company data & @OpenOwnership are one of the tools to fight it.

OECD Business and Finance

@OECD_BizFin

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♀️ On #WomensDay , join us at the OECD to discuss business, finance and #gender . More info here ➡ ｜ #Biz4WB #OECDrbc

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How do we make sense of a world where companies can come into existence for brief periods of time, like fireflies in the night, and then disappear? We've been looking into the automation of company formation. Read more:

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Fighting financial crime increasingly relies on tech innovation. Join our webinar with @ACAMS_AML & @ExigerLLC to learn why transparent legal entity data enables you to scale up innovative efforts to counter financial crime

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2021 was a transformational year for OpenCorporates. Our CEO, Sarah Arana-Morton, highlights some of our key achievements

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@OpenCorporates is proud to be one of 120+ orgs calling on EU to fulfil its promises & open up company and #beneficialownership registers. See also our Founder's blog this am, on how European corporate opacity has created a fertile ground for #kleptocracy

This must be the wakeup call for true corporate transparency

The Bell Tower of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, taken on my visit to the city in August 2017, on a trip to help with the creation of a Beneficial Ownership Register for Ukrainian Companies The worl…

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Access Info Europe

@Access_Info

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Together with +120 transparency, anti-corruption, journalist & open data organisations we call upon the #EU Institutions and MS to act now and open up all #company and #beneficialownership registers across the #EU @EU_Commission 📝 Read the statement here:

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#FlashHacks today are looking at corp groupings made from corps named in #PanamaPapers & bots for licenses #opendata

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OpenCorporates reaches 100 million companies. A win for #opendata & transparency. #anticorruption

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#paradisepapers show transparency is vital. Our handbook has tools to aid investigations into corporate structures:

The Investigator’s Handbook: A Guide to Using OpenCorporates

This guide is dedicated to the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered near her home in Malta on the 16th of October 2017, following a series of stories she did around the…

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We're proud that OpenCorporates has been named one of the fastest growing companies in Europe in a Financial Times report released today

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We're delighted to announce the OpenCorporates Trust, part of our innovative new corporate structure to ensure OpenCorporates will always operate for the public benefit. Thanks to our new trustees, and welcome to OpenCorporates!

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This isn’t just about OpenCorporates having the data. The German company register is a crucial dataset that underpins all of business and society, and needs to be open for everyone #offeneregister

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“They say that sunshine is the best weapon against corruption and OpenCorporates exemplifies that for me” - @JohnGithongo explains why he became one of our trustees

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Passionate about fighting corruption? Like #opendata ? We're hiring a Project Coordinator to join our pilot team.

Job Description: Global Beneficial Ownership Register Project Coordinator

PROJECT COORDINATOR Help us create an innovative tech project to fight corruption About Global Beneficial Ownership Register The massive revelations in the Panama Papers have shined the starkest...

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8 years

When someone says open company & beneficial ownership data is *not* a game changer, show them this.. #opendata

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6 years

The first formal step in this process – introducing the OpenCorporates trustees: Patrick Alley, Esther Dyson, John Githongo, Mike Olson, Giannina Segnini and Jane Wales. Welcome to OpenCorporates, we look forward to working with you!

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We're proud that @CountCulture , our CEO & Co-founder, has been named in @openuk_uk 's New Year’s Honours List – as a top influencer in the field of open data #OpenUKInfluencer

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“Black Box data has been propped up by a business model which is based on restricting access to the data... The data providers do not want to disclose the source of the data – otherwise, users could bypass them and go directly to the source”

Black Box Data addiction will kill your business, warns new report

For the past 50 years, companies, regulators, investigators and journalists have mostly used ‘Black Box’ data – data that is opaque, not well defined, uses proprietary identifiers, and has po…

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🇺🇸 ICYMI: Illinois official company data is now available in OpenCorporates – a win for open data advocacy which adds 2.8+ million companies to our database (inc those incorporated in the 3rd largest US city, Chicago)

New Jurisdiction: Illinois (2,800,000 companies)

A win for open data advocacy: official company data from Illinois is now available in OpenCorporates. The addition of over 2.8 million Illinois companies, including those incorporated in the third …

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Great to host a discussion on implementing open #beneficialownership registers with a delegation from the Nigerian govt & @OpenOwnership

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. @Oxfam 's report uses our data & finds 59% of EU banks’ US subsidiaries are registered in #Delaware . #opendata

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"This panel discussion chaired by @opencontracting will provide an overview of the current open contracting landscape in the UK and consider further developments in the field"👇

Opening up public contracts: what's hot, what's not & why it matters

Opening up the UK's £284bn of public contracts: what's hot, what's not & why it matters.

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Mor @Morchickit @OKFN found out Malta is... #panamapapers #anticorruption @ONEcampaignUK @TransparencyUK

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The European Commission has finally published the draft implementing act for the Open Data Directive. We looked at it, and looked at it again… and said: is that all there is? @CountCulture explains more in our latest blog post

Open Data Directive: You gotta be kidding me!

By Chris Taggart, Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, OpenCorporates Recently, the European Commission finally published the draft implementing act for the Open Data Directive. We looked at it, a…

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Read why corporate structures need to be #opendata for effective investigations. Another gem from our archive!

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OGP Anti-Corruption Working Group recommendations on Beneficial Ownership includes the example of @OpenOwnership

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Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is on the rise 📈 and a powerful tool in the fight against financial crimes. The Cyprus Confidential investigation led by the @ICIJorg is a prime example 👉 #FinancialCrime #OSINT #CyprusConfidential

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"If History is written by victors - does that mean, #Wikipedia won?" Interesting point by attendee. #Wikimania2014 #openaccess

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OpenCorporates is growing! We've grown from 3m companies in the UK, Jersey and Bermuda to over 140 million companies in 128 jurisdictions. Now we're launching Phase 2, ensuring we'll always operate to our public benefit mission. Find out more:

Introducing OpenCorporates Phase Two

1 billion? 10 billion? 100 billion? How many companies will exist in 10 years’ time? We are about to witness, we believe, an explosion of the number, speed, and complexity of corporate entities, dr…

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Exciting news: OpenCorporates was today recognised by the Financial Times, Google and leading European policy makers as one of 100 digital pioneers in Europe! #GrowWithGoogle #FTEuropeGrowth

OpenCorporates selected as European Digital Pioneer

OpenCorporates was today recognised by the Financial Times, Google and leading European policy makers as one of 100 digital pioneers in Europe!

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Interview: Emma Prest, CTO of the @OCCRP , recently joined us as a trustee. In this interview, Emma outlines why she thinks transparent company data is important for investigations

Interview: Emma Prest on the value of transparent company data for investigations

Emma Prest is the Chief Technology Officer at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and recently joined OpenCorporates as a trustee. We sat down with Emma to hear about her w…

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