I wrote in the past about the importance of providing Companies House registration numbers with any public records that refer to UK-registered companies. Contracts Finder is one dataset that contains some Companies House references within its records. As part of the BODS Risk Detection PoC, we've used this dataset to link UK public con...

BODS RDF enables a series of compliance use cases like UBOs, ultimate parents, and others, to be expressed more naturally using a graph language. However, another motivation behind the proposal was to create a language for linking this data to other sources, and to be able to answer questions across multiple domains and datasets. Linki...

The previous in-depth examples on UBOs and Ultimate parents are only scratching the surface of what's possible with BODS RDF. So I thought it would be useful to provide a broader range of queries for some common (and less common) use cases in the beneficial ownership problem space. A note on ownership and control queries The BODS RDF v...

I've been working with public data from gov.uk a lot over the years, and I can firmly say that Britain is setting a high standard for adopting open data principles and bringing about more transparency and accountability in public administration. The data.gov.uk is a particularly encouraging initiative as it makes it a lot clearer what ...

When discussing corporate ownership, the term ultimate parent usually refers to entities (non-individuals) at the top of ownership chains. Determining ultimate parent(s) provides context for a corporate group and it's an essential requirement in various Risk & Compliance use cases. In this article we'll explore the process to identify ...

Identifying the ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs) for a company or an asset is a common use case in Financial Services and an integral part of Risk & Compliance solutions. Today we will look at some practical solutions for identifying UBOs using the Open Ownership register. As mentioned before, the BODS schema is a good fit for graph/n...

Beneficial ownership secrecy is one of the most common tricks for concealing proceeds of crime and it’s often used to cover the tracks of corruption, money laundering, and human trafficking - to name but a few. Open Ownership is a non-profit committed to making a change in this space. They help countries implement beneficial ownership ...

In October 1994, HotWired, the online spinoff of what was a print-only Wired magazine, displayed the first ad banner, landing on the AT&T website. Its success contributed to unleashing the monster of online advertising, which would eventually create the toxic, privacy-ignorant, online business culture we struggle with today. In all fai...