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The EU has written down what a beneficial ownership data standard must hold

Mapping the final EU formats for beneficial ownership information against the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, field by field

stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/the-eu-has-w...

#beneficialownership #UBO #openstandards #AMLR
November 4, 2026 at 11:15 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
New features added to OpenCheck:

1) Discrepancy notes for registers
2) Advanced search filters
3) Which filing declared each PSC?

Visit opencheck.world or discover all new features via opencheck.world/changelog

#LEI #opendata #openstandards #opensource #UBO #GODIN
November 4, 2026 at 9:07 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
OpenCheck's MCP server has been updated so that agents can find out per source what can be known before running calls and receive more information about how to read the answers

opencheck.world/api

#beneficialownership #UBO #openstandards #opendata #interoperability #MCP #AI
November 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
How to get started in money laundering

I'll be joining @pacoid.bsky.social for this cheekily-titled masterclass at Connected Data London next week

2026.connected-data.london/talks/how-to...

#ConnectedDataLondon #KnowledgeGraphs #AI #AML #openstandards #opendata #entityresolution
Connected Data London 2026
A Talk by Paco Nathan & Stephen Abbott Pugh
2026.connected-data.london
November 5, 2026 at 12:04 PM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
Ahead of tomorrow's event, I've created a bulk dataset of Estonia's open data containing information on the shareholders, officers and beneficial owners for 29k+ Estonian companies which have a Legal Entity Identifier
github.com/StephenAbbot...

#LEI #opendata #openstandards
November 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
Where did this come from, and is it still true?

Two questions every due diligence analyst asks of ownership data.

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard answers both on every statement.

How OpenCheck uses that:
stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/where-did-th...

#UBO #openstandards #opendata #LEI
November 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
New sources in OpenCheck today: Ukraine's Unified State Register, Belgium's Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (KBO) and Cyprus' Registrar of Companies opencheck.world

Full list of sources: opencheck.world/sources

#LEI #opendata #opensource #openstandards #CDD #EDD #UBO #OSINT #beneficialownership
October 30, 2026 at 7:41 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
This is also an argument in favour of using an open standard.

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard puts the evidence on every statement, so any agent, using any tool, can check what a claim rests on

standard.openownership.org

#beneficialownership #UBO #openstandards
Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (v0.4) — Beneficial Ownership Data Standard 0.4 documentation
standard.openownership.org
November 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
This is available in formats including Neo4J, RDF and the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard JSON format

github.com/StephenAbbot...

#Neo4j #RDF #openstandards #opendata
Release Estonia BODS dataset — 25 October 2026 · StephenAbbott/opencheck
OpenCheck Estonia BODS dataset — 25 October 2026 A BODS v0.4 snapshot of every Estonian legal entity holding a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). It holds the global LEI graph around each company, join...
github.com
November 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
Tomorrow I'll be attending @neo4j.com's Graph Day European Institutions here in Brussels to connect about high-quality ownership data and OpenCheck

events.neo4j.com/graphdayeuin...

#Neo4J #knowledgegraph #graphdatabases #opendata #openstandards #beneficialownership #UBO #AML #AMLR

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Graph Day European Institutions Brussels
European institutions operate across complex, highly connected information spanning policies, organizations, funding, investigations and public services. Yet much of this knowledge remains fragmented ...
events.neo4j.com
November 2, 2026 at 9:55 AM
vreer.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy
Ook voor #podcasts is er een open platform: @Castopod Met het bekende #activitypub als standaard
Interessante presentatie van @SURF met als titel “From Soundcloud to Castopod”: https://zenodo.org/records/23696229 Castopod sluit aan op Mastodon doordat het gebruikmaakt van dezelfde open standaard (#ActivityPub). Daardoor kan je vanuit Mastodon ook podcast-feeds op een Castopod-server volgen zoals: - @onderwijsbewegen - @SURFshort @Castopod #podcasts #openstandards #openstandaarden #opensource
mastodon.nl
November 3, 2026 at 8:27 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
New features on OpenCheck this week:

1) Norwegian annual accounts
2) Versioned BODS statements
3) Estimated energy shares flagged

Learn more: opencheck.world/changelog

#beneficialownership #opendata #opensource #openstandards #GODIN #corporatestructures #LEI #UBO #AMLR #6AMLD
October 29, 2026 at 8:30 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
Agents are a new kind of reader. Ownership data has to be written for them too

How OpenCheck tells AI agents where to look, what a question costs and how to read the answer - and what twelve evals showed
stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/agents-are-a...

#AI #MCP #UBO #openstandards #beneficialownership
Agents are a new kind of reader. Ownership data has to be written for them too
How OpenCheck tells AI agents where to look, what a question costs and how to read the answer — and what twelve evals showed
stephenabbottpugh.medium.com
November 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
How mapping identifiers to the Legal Entity Identifier helps increase interoperability across data ecosystems www.gleif.org/en/newsroom/...

I leverage data from LEI mapping network partners to run OpenCheck, an open source risk check service
opencheck.world

#LEI #openstandards #interoperability
October 28, 2026 at 9:42 AM
kevinkorte.bsky.social
Identity management is only useful if you can get the users into the actual systems. For a more standardized option, Univention's Nubus now supports SCIM.
#identitymanagement #openstandards
SCIM with Nubus: Connect Wire Without a Custom Connector | Univention
How Univention Nubus provisions the Wire messenger via the open SCIM standard. A proof of concept showing how integrations succeed without app-specific code.
www.univention.com
October 31, 2026 at 10:20 PM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
OpenCheck checks who owns and controls a company by fanning out across 52 sources - 33 national company registers, global legal ownership information, sanctions lists - and returning one ownership graph

stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/open-all-the...

#opendata #opensource #openstandards
Open all the way down: why OpenCheck is built on open source, open data and open standards
A country that collects ownership data should be able to understand it, keep it, download it and take it elsewhere. Open standards are what…
stephenabbottpugh.medium.com
October 29, 2026 at 8:30 AM
linuxassociation.bsky.social
Digital sovereignty also means keeping options open. Open interfaces and documented standards help communities connect systems, change providers, and keep using their data. Ask about usable data export, open connections and documented formats.

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenStandards
A community group reviews a simple diagram showing several digital systems connected through open interfaces, with notes about data export and standards.
October 29, 2026 at 4:25 AM
ivyagentsai.bsky.social
Shared agent plumbing is how buyers avoid paying rent on it. The Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation took in four projects from model vendors last week, bringing its total to 10, with more than 300 members in under a year. #OpenStandards #AIInfrastructure
The stone arches of a Roman aqueduct, stacked in two tiers against a pale sky.
October 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM
securityonline.bsky.social
OOXML standardization history: The Document Foundation says Microsoft steered ISO approval in 2006-2008. Microsoft disputes such claims.

#OOXML #ODF #LibreOffice #DocumentFoundation #Microsoft #ISO #OpenStandards #MicrosoftOffice
Document Foundation Revisits the OOXML Standard Fight
An Old Quarrel Returns The Document Foundation, the developer behind the open-source office suite LibreOffice, has published a retrospective on the history of the OOXML format. The essay covers the years 2006 to 2008, when Microsoft sought international standard status for OOXML. The foundation accuses Microsoft of using the fast-track route and national standards committees to push the format through.
securityonline.info
October 26, 2026 at 1:45 AM
matrix.org
Great talks this morning: updates from the Matrix Governing Board and the Working Groups, and updates on unifying Matrix and @IETF #encryption standard #MLS with Famedly and BWI GmbH #openstandards. After coffee we're back with encryption, public sector messaging, and #healthcare. #MatrixConf
October 22, 2026 at 9:10 AM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
The European Commission has officially published its common formats for submitting beneficial ownership information to EU central registers today eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

#beneficialownership #UBO #AMLR #openstandards #interoperability #AML
eur-lex.europa.eu
October 22, 2026 at 4:20 PM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
I continue to believe that such harmonisation efforts will fall short without endorsing a common data standard such as the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/the-eu-is-al...

#beneficialownership #UBO #AMLR #openstandards #interoperability #AML
The EU is aligning beneficial ownership data formats — but without a data standard, harmonisation…
The European Commission recently closed a consultation on the formats EU member states should use when collecting beneficial ownership data
stephenabbottpugh.medium.com
October 22, 2026 at 4:20 PM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
Spotting that a company’s record changed is the easy part. Saying whether it matters, and keeping a record of what you did about it, is what turns monitoring into perpetual KYC

stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/openchecks-w...

#LEI #pKYC #opendata #opensource #openstandards
OpenCheck’s watchlist as perpetual KYC: from “what changed?” to “what did you decide?”
Spotting that a company’s record changed is the easy part. Saying whether it matters, and keeping a record of what you did about it, is…
stephenabbottpugh.medium.com
October 19, 2026 at 1:38 PM
avbuzz.bsky.social
⏱️ Ready to learn the fundamentals of PTP? This article gives some great insight into what it is and why it’s so important for today’s media workflows, as well as what it means for ST 2110 transport.

Read more below. ⤵️

#PTP #OpenStandards #ST2110
Making Sense of PTP - Sound & Video Contractor
By Douglas Gillette, Independent Engineer and AIMS Member
www.svconline.com
October 19, 2026 at 11:05 PM
stephenabbottpugh.bsky.social
How OpenCheck uses Estonia’s e-Business Register’s bulk files and APIs - why multiple formats and full company histories matter

stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/how-openchec...

#LEI #opendata #beneficialownership #AMLR #openstandards #opensource
How OpenCheck uses Estonia’s e-Business Register’s bulk files and APIs
How OpenCheck uses Estonia’s e-Business Register’s bulk files and APIs - why multiple formats and full company histories matter Estonia is one of the best places to test what open company data …
stephenabbottpugh.medium.com
October 18, 2026 at 3:18 PM