ANALYSIS | Can the UK teach the US how to manage beneficial ownership registers?
Whose beneficial ownership register is “best”? Martin Kenney analyses and compares the UK and USA’s corporate beneficial ownership registers, for IFC Review.
MEDIA COMMENT | UK transparency legislation
Martin Kenney was asked by the Daily Mail newspaper to comment on pressure being brought to bear on the UK government by some UK politicians, who want to tighten regulations and prevent overseas owners of UK property from hiding ultimate ownership details using trusts.
Are public UBO registers a good or a bad proposition?
Public UBO registers are only as good as the information provided by those required to furnish it.
COMMENTARY — UK’s registry move draws fire
Having browbeaten the House of Commons into enacting a statute seeking to impose public ultimate beneficial ownership registers on the United Kingdom’s overseas territories, such as the Virgin Islands, there are moves afoot to legally fortify this legislative decision by declaring it under the heading of national security.
UK’s targeting of Russian oligarchs as a national security threat is a sham
Russia and its oligarchs are not alone in their kleptomaniac, money-laundering endeavours.