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Markus Meinzer @markusmeinzer.bsky.social · Feb 28

🚨 New research alert!
"The Transnational Legal Ordering of Beneficial Ownership Registration" has now been published in Transnational Legal Theory.

The first 50 readers can download our full article for free:
👉 Click www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TE7PX...

A 🧵with key takeaways from our study 👇:

The transnational legal ordering of beneficial ownership registration

The lack of transparency over who owns or controls legal vehicles is a global concern. The ordering of responses to this global issue has matured over more than two decades and has reached beyond d...

www.tandfonline.com

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Open Ownership @openownership.bsky.social · Dec 9

Wealth taxes are high on the policy agenda – a key theme at this year’s #G20. Our Deputy Exec Director @louise-rp.bsky.social outlines links btw #BeneficialOwnership and #TaxAbuse, and starts thinking about making BO reforms work for tax in this new piece.

www.openownership.org/en/blog/for-...

For wealth taxes to work, governments need to know who owns what

Wealth taxes are high on the policy agenda – a key theme at this year’s G20, and proposed as a solution to help countries find the USD 1 trillion annual financing needed to meet United Nations (UN) cl...

www.openownership.org

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Dec 5

Lots of big news this week 📢 @openownership.bsky.social is recruiting our first International Advisory Board! Please spread the word and get in touch if you're interested ✨

Open Ownership @openownership.bsky.social · Dec 5

As Open Ownership prepares to enter a new strategy cycle, we are recruiting members for a new International Advisory Board.

Read more: www.openownership.org/en/blog/open...

#NonProfitJobs #NonExecRoles #NGOBoardRoles #NGOJobs #BeneficialOwnership #transparency @unjobs.org

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Dec 4

Excited to launch this joint project with LSEG Risk Intelligence and the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime, cofunded by USAID 🙌🏼 find out more here ⤵️

Open Ownership @openownership.bsky.social · Dec 4

We're launching a Task Force on Interoperable #BeneficialOwnership Data w. Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime and London Stock Exchange Group Risk Intelligence, seeking to advance tech and data governance innovations to combat transnational #corruption.
www.openownership.org/en/blog/inno...

Innovating for change: Tackling corruption with a new Task Force on Interoperable Beneficial Ownership Data

Open Ownership, in partnership with the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime and the London Stock Exchange Group Risk Intelligence, is launching a Task Force on Interoperable Beneficial Ownership...

www.openownership.org

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Open Ownership @openownership.bsky.social · Dec 4

This week we are at the 4th UN Financing for Development (#FfD4) meetings in New York, making the case that #BeneficialOwnership #transparency has cross-cutting importance to fully implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and to supporting reform of the international financial architecture.

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Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach @maryias.bsky.social · Nov 30

I don’t speak Georgian, but watching this live stream from what looks like middle of night protests in Tbilisi speaks without words: mtavari.tv/en/live?fbcl... Fingers crossed for Georgia.

Live

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Duncan Hames @duncanhames.bsky.social · Nov 30

The Observer had early sight of our report out next week on the money that funds UK election campaigns.

We found that gaps in political finance rules are failing to stop money from questionable sources being funnelled into our politics.

More here:

Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources

Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes

www.theguardian.com

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 30

Technological change aspect of interest to you maybe @hillaryvipond.bsky.social

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 30

Lots of food for thought in this on combating climate change while easing the impact on workers from the fossil fuels sector, and the challenges of telling what's green washing and what's actually helpful ⤵️

Zan Barberton @zanbarberton.bsky.social · Nov 30

The grandson of a coalminer, a Welsh entrepreneur is taking carbon out of the sky, locking it back in the ground AND creating jobs for legacy skills from coal and steel. But is the carbon removals industry, bogged down by greenwashing scandals, fit for purpose? www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2VW...

How is carbon dioxide being removed from the atmosphere?

YouTube video by RAZOR Science Show

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · Nov 29

"Not a single Whitehall department has registered the use of AI systems since the government said it would become mandatory, prompting warnings that the public sector is “flying blind” about the deployment of algorithmic technology affecting millions of lives."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK government failing to list use of AI on mandatory register

Technology secretary admits government departments are not being transparent over way they use AI and algorithms

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Cobham @alexcobham.bsky.social · Nov 27

Our @taxjusticenet.bsky.social press release is out: The UN votes marks the real start of a historic overhaul of global tax governance
taxjustice.net/press/united...

United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to begin historic, global tax overhaul | Tax Justice Network

US and UK left isolated as only nine countries oppose progress A historic vote at the UN General Assembly today saw countries decide overwhelmingly to begin the formal negotiation of a UN framework co...

taxjustice.net

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Tonu Basu @tonubasu.bsky.social · Nov 27

New to bsky! Talk to me about digital policy and open government (I can tell you what not to do when designing policy processes, especially if you're a government official). Always happy to exchange notes on food recommendations, Indian classical dance (or any dance really) and the sunday papers.

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Open Ownership @openownership.bsky.social · Nov 25

For wealth taxes to work, governments need to know who owns what. New piece by our Deputy ED @louise-rp.bsky.social

www.openownership.org/en/blog/for-...
#BeneficialOwnership #transparency #TaxAbuse #IFFs #OpenData

For wealth taxes to work, governments need to know who owns what

Wealth taxes are high on the policy agenda – a key theme at this year’s G20, and proposed as a solution to help countries find the USD 1 trillion annual financing needed to meet United Nations (UN) cl...

www.openownership.org

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 25

www.gov.uk/government/p...

UK and Overseas Territories Joint Ministerial Council 2024: communiqué

The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary joined elected Leaders and Representatives of the UK Overseas Territories for the twelfth Joint Ministerial Council.

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 25

But, given the lack of progress to date in many OTs to improve access to their BO registers, especially the financial centres, this is a step forward. Come July 2025 it will be possible for actors to test whether legit interest provisions as defined in OTs laws operate effectively in practice.

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 25

Welcome news to see a clear timeline of June 2025 for UK Overseas Territories to implement "accessible" BO registers. Accessible here is meaning a range of options - from legitimate interest with potentially very restrictive access requirements, through to publicly accessible registers...

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 25

@openownership.bsky.social is now on Bluesky too, follow us for all things #beneficialownership 🙌🏼

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 24

Interesting, am helping my eldest with GCSE revision now so this is good to have in mind... But tbh my experience of going back to uni for an MSc a few years ago was that there's a formula for essay writing there too - it took me the whole first year (p/t) to work out what it was as nobody told us 🙃

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · Nov 24

New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland.

The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 24

Let's hope we can keep the spotlight on issues this COP has brought to the fore - the links between climate and debt crisis, the importance of countries actually implementing the commitments made at international fora.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cop29: Climate finance deal agreed but talks remain deeply divided – as it happened

The deal was met with long applause, cheering, whistling and embraces but few are happy with it

www.theguardian.com

Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 24

...otherwise the climate mechanisms will go into a horrible downward spiral, and no one needs that." - Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, Panama’s special representative for climate change speaking at #COP29 as the deal noone is happy with (other than it being better than no deal) is agreed.

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 24

“The gavel was hit way too fast and our heart goes out to all those nations that feel like they were walked over. Developed nations always throw text at us at the last minute, shove it down our throat, and then, for the sake of multilateralism, we always have to accept it..

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Louise Russell-Prywata @louise-rp.bsky.social · Nov 24

“I think 1.5C was at the intensive care unit and it feels like that bed just broke and it fell on the floor ... That means death, that means misery, for our countries.”... #COP29

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Steve Goodrich @stevejgoodrich.bsky.social · Nov 21

Interesting and timely report from Global Energy Monitor
showing the importance of beneficial ownership information for tackling the climate crisis globalenergymonitor.org/report/world...

World's largest oil and gas plant owners hide billions of dollars in climate costs

Saudi Electricity Company — the largest owner of gas-fired capacity in the world — did not disclose over 7 million tonnes of CO2 in 2022 through its chosen carbon reporting method, finds a new report ...

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Ben Cowdock @bcowdock.bsky.social · Nov 21

Great to see the Foreign Secretary begin his campaign against Kleptocrats and dirty money. Next on the agenda should be stopping opaque trusts hiding property ownership, opening up company registers of the UK's offshore secrecy havens and clamping down on enablers. www.linkedin.com/posts/davidl...

David Lammy on LinkedIn: I said I would take on dirty money when I became Foreign Secretary…

I said I would take on dirty money when I became Foreign Secretary. Today, I am.

www.linkedin.com

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