Broader access to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's beneficial ownership database would allow financial firms to cut off drug traffickers' financing, writes David Wilson, of the London Stock ...

The 29 September 2023 Decree of the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy (the Provision) finally implementing the Register of Ultimate Beneficial Owners (the UBO Register), as required by ...

The decision to stop requiring U.S. companies to report beneficial ownership information is misguided. The compliance burden could be substantially eased by collecting the data at the state level, ...

Dr. Michael Bowien, LL.M., Dr. Richard Reimer, Sarah Wrage, LL.M. The adoption of the EU Anti Money Laundering Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the “AML Regulation") marks a significant advancement in the ...

Financial institutions are rapidly evolving how they onboard clients and meet regulatory obligations, with digital transformation at the core. Nowhere is this shift more critical than in the need to ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Friday announced the launch of a public consultation on proposed amendments to its directive governing the register of beneficial owners of ...

The opening of beneficial-ownership registers to the public may still be on the cards, even after the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the requirement to do so was not valid. David ...

A collaboration between GLEIF and Open Ownership has resulted in Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) being integrated into datasets — produced in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard for the ...