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Case study: Fixing broken government information with open data
This is a tale of good intentions, bad practices, and broken processes. Although it’s superficially about charity and company data, in fact it’s really about how the public sector is failing to use...
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OpenCorporates: The directors’ cut
One of the most often requested features for OpenCorporates, especially by journalists, is for us to extract information about the directors and officers for the over 35 million companies we’ve opened...
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Are DUNS numbers the crack cocaine of ID systems (and is the UK the latest...
Last month the US General Accounting Office, produced an excellent report on the use of Dun & Bradstreet’s proprietary DUNS ID system by the Federal Government, specifically the GSA, its...
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Open company data on the rise: featuring G8, World Bank, EITI…
This month has been a good month for open corporate data, with a number of significant developments, all of them positive, and OpenCorporates is proud to have played a significant part in many of them....
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Another UK company data milestone: Accounts as open data
Update: In record time we’ve starting importing Companies House XBRL data, and extracting the key financial figures from it (you can also click through to the underlying accounts themselves). It will...
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UK Beneficial Ownership information now in OpenCorporates
On Friday UK Companies House published the first data from its new ‘Persons of Significant Control’ (PSC) register (colloquially known as Beneficial Ownership). This is a pretty big deal, for a number...
View ArticleData Briefing: new charity registers, additional gazette notices, and more!
We're constantly carrying out work that helps improve & enhance our company data. Some of our recent small changes don't warrant a full blog post, so here's a list of some newsworthy updates that...
View ArticleJoint Committee accepts OpenCorporates’ recommendations on Overseas Entities...
Earlier this week, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill published its recommendations on the bill, and we're pleased to say they've explicitly...
View ArticleOpenCorporates collaborates with the Financial Conduct Authority on...
With the onset of Covid-19, businesses and individuals have needed to navigate unprecedented difficulties and change. The resulting disruption is being taken advantage of by would-be fraudsters, who...
View ArticleUK Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Bill: OpenCorporates provides...
Is the UK’s Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill up to scratch? The bill, designed to strengthen the UK’s defences against financial crime and promote corporate transparency (including...
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