Hello. Tell us about who you are & what role you will be doing OpenCorporates. I’m Tom and I’m an engineer at OpenCorporates (I joined in January). I’ll be working…
In a significant victory for transparency and common sense, today the European Court of Justice today ruled that personal data in company records was not subject to the so-called 'right to be…
That might sound like an absurd question. The benefits accrued from transparency, fighting corruption and money laundering, and enabling good business practise help everyone, right? Then why am I writing…
Written by Chris Taggart and Hera Hussain When the announcement of a public beneficial ownership register in Germany was made in November 2016, it was welcomed by the transparency community…
Even when planned maintenance goes well, there are always things we can learn from it. And when it goes less well, as ours did last week, you can learn even…
Hello. Tell us about who you are & what role you will be doing OpenCorporates. Hi! My name is Alexander Angelov. I’m a Data Analyst at OpenCorporates and I am…
Originally published on Sunlight Foundation. For many people in the open data and anti-corruption space, the past year could be summed up in two words: “Panama Papers”. This blew open…
One of the technical challenges in a fast growing database such as OpenCorporates is that the baseline never stands still. As a result, due to the increasing data storage and…
Large corporations wield significant influence over many parts of society - including politics and natural resources. With the help of open data, you can now begin to map out (partially)…
This guest blog is by Phil Cotter, Managing Director, Risk and Supply Chain at Thomson Reuters. OpenCorporates provided our data for this research and are happy to see the results…