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15 years of corporate transparency: The ultimate resource list

Fifteen years ago, Chris Taggart founded OpenCorporates with a simple mission: to make legal-entity data transparent and reliable. Today, that mission is more critical than ever. We've built the foundation for the first step of any transaction; verifying a legitimate business from its primary source, such as Secretaries of State and Companies House. OpenCorporates was an early innovator in this space, establishing itself as the most trusted source for legal-entity data, anchored in our seven Legal-Entity Data Principles. This commitment to provenance and quality is what sets our data apart.

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December 10, 2025
Read more about the article Black Box Data addiction will kill your business, warns new report
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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 poor data quality feedback loops. But continued reliance on this data could put a firm out of business within five years, according to a new report by OpenCorporates.

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May 2, 2019
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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 Panama Papers. Daphne fought tirelessly against corruption, and her contributions will be sorely missed.  We’d like to take this as opportunity to send our thoughts to the Caruana Galizia family, and assert our support for investigative journalists around the world.

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October 31, 2017
Read more about the article Reading List: Impact of Open Company Data
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Reading List: Impact of Open Company Data

As Becky Hogge notes in her important report on the impact of open data, tracking impact is tricky. By its nature, open data is resistant to traditional impact reporting; in part because we don't know exactly how it is being used, and in part because the value chain is so diffuse. So, Hogge argues, outside of sweeping statements about potential, at this stage impact is largely indicated by “fragments” of stories from the ground.

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October 16, 2017

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