Tag Archives: Financial Stability Board

How open is company data in Open Government Partnership countries?

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

Today, the day before the Open Government Partnership meeting starts in Brasilia, OpenCorporates is publishing a major new report into access to company data in OGP countries, and the picture is not good. Out of a total of a possible 100 … Continue reading →

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Corporate confidentiality, company relationships, and why this ‘competitive advantage’ is anti-competitive

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

Last week OpenCorporates was in Basel at the Financial Stability Board‘s workshop on Global Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) for corporate entities, as a member of the advisory panel. It’s worth giving a sentence or two’s background here for those who aren’t … Continue reading →

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Major milestones: 40m companies, 50+ jurisdictions, moving out of alpha, getting respectable

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

We did it – last week we went over the 40 million companies mark, with the addition of our 52st jurisdiction: Mauritius. As well as being quite a significant milestone in itself, we’re also using this as an excuse to … Continue reading →

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