TRACE

Transparent Corporates

We're making corporate data freely and publically available, to empower you to hold the right people in the corporate sector accountable when they do things that affect your everyday life.

Our mission

We want to make corporate data truly accessible, because we believe you shouldn’t have to pay for company information that should legally and legitimately be public. We’re interrogating data around corporate structures and the relationships corporates have with the state, shareholders and communities.

We're here to help

We can help you find the important corporate data you're missing. Just send us a data request.

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Our corporate data collection

Tenders

A rough OCR of tender bulletins for 2015 and 2016

UK Land Registry

The latest list of properties from the UK Land Registry.

SENS

Market announcements from publicly listed companies.

Restricted suppliers

A list of blacklisted suppliers across all provinces

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Why corporate data matters

We have datasets and have done work around tender information, beneficial ownership, company shareholder registries, illicit financial flows, potential conflicts of interest in the private sector, and the environmental and social impacts that the decisions corporates make have on everyday life. Read more about our work and the work other organisations are doing to improve corporate transparency and accountability here:

Opening up corporate data
In this next article we’re going back to the beginning and will look at why we’re branching out to corporate data.
Ten things I learnt at OpenUp
As we wrap up our work in corporate, we decided to reflect on a few of the lessons learnt along the way.
Investigating private entities with open data
As part of OpenUp's Transparent Corporates project, we've got some tips on how to investigate private entities using open data.
Corporate tax: a balancing act
How does the Corporate Tax Income rate affects the average taxpayer and what are the ways in which we can start to curb tax evasion?
Who really benefits from company ownership?
In this next article we look at beneficial ownership and the need for global improved transparency, as well as a registry here in South Africa.
OpenOwnership's Beneficial Ownership Register

In April 2017, OpenOwnership launched a first-of-its-kind global beneficial ownership registry, that lists details of nearly 2 million companies in the UK.

An article by OpenOwnership
Tax havens and evasions
What is tax evasion and what does it actually mean to call somewhere a tax haven?
Shareholder requests and the access battle
The state of transparency within company ownership and how the law facilitates access to this type of information.
Introducing OpenUp’s Data Desk: help us to help you make corporate data open
We don’t know enough about who owns what in corporates, which allows corruption, theft and dodgy dealings to happen. That’s why we’re going after the data.
Net1 and BEE deals: A gift that keeps on giving

A series of articles laying out the convoluted network of companies and organisations surrounding the Net1-CPS-SASSA saga.

An article by Daily Maverick

Corporate data resources

Centre for Environmental Rights Full Disclosure Report

An investigation into corporate environmental compliance in South Africa. The report shows that some companies are committing serious compliance violations.

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Open Society Foundations Extractive Companies and Transparency Working Paper Two

The Open Society Foundation is conducting ongoing research into South African disclosure practice and the drivers behind it.

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