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Stephen Abbott Pugh

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Jun 24

Lessons learned so far from two months of building OpenCheck

For the past two months, I’ve been building a new tool called OpenCheck and I want to share some of the lessons I’ve learned so far.

Lessons learned so far from two months of building OpenCheck

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Jun 17

Filling the semantic gaps for ultimate beneficial ownership data in European Business Wallets

Understanding who owns or controls companies or trusts is seen as crucial to the success of the European Business Wallets initiative by…

Filling the semantic gaps for ultimate beneficial ownership data in European Business Wallets

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Jun 11

Watch UK beneficial ownership information change in real time as open, standardised data

Today I’m launching BODS stream, a live view of UK beneficial ownership changing in real time, as open, standardised data.

BODS stream, a live view of UK beneficial ownership changing in real time, as open, standardised data

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Jun 5

Europe’s tech sovereignty strategy needs an open standard for corporate ownership data

The European Commission’s new technological sovereignty package places open source and open standards at the centre of Europe’s digital…

Europe’s tech sovereignty strategy needs an open standard for corporate ownership data

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Jun 3

From Seville to global data sharing: why open standards matter for beneficial ownership…

How the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) strengthens calls for global beneficial ownership data sharing

Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2026: Implementing the Sevilla Commitment

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Apr 29

OpenCheck: customer due diligence checks powered by the Legal Entity Identifier and open data

OpenCheck shows how to do customer due diligence risk checks powered by the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), open data and open standards

OpenCheck is a project to show how to do customer due diligence risk checks powered by the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), open data and open standards including the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS).

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Apr 22

Create user-friendly web forms to collect data in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

Beneficial ownership data should be easy to submit as well as to use.

BODS forms: a user-friendly form that produces valid BODS version 0.4 beneficial ownership data https://bods-forms.onrender.com/

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Apr 16

Why transforming beneficial ownership data into linked data formats matters for AI

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) has an RDF vocabulary for converting from BODS JSON to a linked data format

Why transforming beneficial ownership data into linked data formats matters for AI

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Apr 15

Transforming standardised beneficial ownership data into usable formats

Beneficial ownership data should be easy to use once you have been given access to it.

Use of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard helps improve data quality, usability and interoperability — and increases the ease with which data can be transformed into the formats that users need

Stephen Abbott Pugh

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Mar 31

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

The EU is aligning beneficial ownership data formats — but without a data standard, harmonisation…

Stephen Abbott Pugh

Stephen Abbott Pugh

Helping everyone pursue beneficial ownership transparency and use beneficial ownership data. Led development of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

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