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Dataset Summary
The Techsalerator Global UBO Registries dataset maps the state of Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) disclosure across national government registers. It tracks, on a country-by-country basis, whether Techsalerator captures beneficial ownership data for that jurisdiction, the name of the official registry, the registry type, and the current access status of that registry (public, restricted, or legitimate-interest-only) as of mid-2026.
It is a companion reference dataset to Techsalerator's broader UBO platform, which resolves and standardizes corporate ownership hierarchies (Operating Entity, Parent Company, Global Ultimate Parent) across jurisdictions with materially different disclosure regimes. This dataset documents where the underlying registry data comes from and how accessible it currently is, which matters for AML and KYC teams assessing coverage and freshness.
Supported Tasks
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD): identify which jurisdictions have queryable beneficial ownership registries and under what access conditions.
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and sanctions screening: assess registry-based coverage gaps across a customer or counterparty footprint.
Corporate investigations and third-party risk management: locate the authoritative source registry for a given jurisdiction.
Regulatory and compliance research: track the post-2022 CJEU ruling shift from public to legitimate-interest access across EU UBO registers.
Languages
Dataset content is in English. Underlying registry names are given in their official local-language form alongside an English translation where applicable.
Dataset Structure
Each row represents one country or jurisdiction and its official UBO (or equivalent) registry. The dataset is a single flat table with no train/test split, currently covering 13 jurisdictions.
Fields:
Country — country name with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, e.g. "Germany (DE)".
Techsalerator captures? — Yes/No, whether Techsalerator ingests ownership data sourced from this registry.
Registry Name — official name of the national beneficial ownership (or equivalent) register, in local language with English translation.
Registry Type — classification of the register, e.g. "UBO / beneficial ownership".
Access Status (as of mid-2026) — current public/restricted access status, legal basis for restriction, and the government body managing the registry.
Dataset Creation
Per the Techsalerator UBO Methodology, source data follows a registry-first approach: government-maintained beneficial ownership registers are the primary source wherever legally available, supplemented by shareholder registries, corporate ownership filings, securities disclosures, annual reports, regulatory filings, and official company registry publications where direct UBO registers are unavailable or restricted.
Techsalerator applies jurisdiction-specific acquisition strategies while maintaining one common global ownership model, since beneficial ownership legislation differs substantially by country. The pipeline includes:
Normalization — individual owners, corporate shareholders, intermediate holding companies, investment vehicles, subsidiaries, joint ventures, trusts (where publicly disclosed), and parent organizations are standardized into a consistent ownership hierarchy.
Entity resolution — shareholders appearing under different legal names, translated names, abbreviations, or historical company names are reconciled using registration numbers, legal identifiers, addresses, and filing references, reducing duplicate ownership relationships.
Enterprise hierarchy — ownership is organized into Operating Entity, Parent Company, and Global Ultimate Parent (GUP) tiers.
Continuous monitoring — records are refreshed in response to mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, share transfers, restructurings, dissolutions, and newly incorporated holding companies.
Validation — ownership relationships are cross-checked across multiple authoritative sources. Registry information carries the highest confidence weighting, followed by securities filings, regulatory disclosures, official annual reports, and licensed commercial ownership databases. Conflicts are resolved using source authority, publication recency, ownership percentages, filing dates, and legal documentation.
Registry Coverage (as of mid-2026)
Austria (AT) — WiEReG Register of Beneficial Owners. Restricted to legitimate interest since the Nov 2022 CJEU ruling; rules clarified Oct 2025. Managed by the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) via the Unternehmensserviceportal (USP).
Belgium (BE) — UBO Register. Restricted to legitimate interest since Feb 2023; case-by-case email requests, no general public access. Managed by FPS Finance via MyMinFin.
Germany (DE) — Transparenzregister. Public access ended following the Nov 2022 CJEU ruling; now legitimate-interest only. Operated by Bundesanzeiger Verlag on behalf of the Bundesverwaltungsamt.
Denmark (DK) — Register of Beneficial Owners. Public until Sept 2025; now restricted to competent authorities, AML-obliged entities, and legitimate-interest parties (CVR.dk with MitID, or API). Managed by Erhvervsstyrelsen.
France (FR) — Registre des Bénéficiaires Effectifs (RBE). Restricted to legitimate interest since Jul 2024, formalized Apr 2025; free access retained for journalists, researchers, and civil society. Managed by INPI.
Ireland (IE) — Central Register of Beneficial Ownership (RBO). Restricted to legitimate interest since Jun 2023; limited public extracts only. Managed by the Registrar of Beneficial Ownership.
Italy (IT) — Registro dei Titolari Effettivi. Public consultation suspended since May 2024 pending CJEU review; a new legitimate-interest access model came into force Jan 2026. Managed via InfoCamere/Unioncamere.
Japan (JP) — Beneficial Ownership List System. No public register; voluntary self-registration system for use with banks only, run by the Ministry of Justice since Jan 2022.
Luxembourg (LU) — Registre des Bénéficiaires Effectifs (RBE). Public access ended Nov 2022; tiered legitimate-interest model codified Jan 2025. Managed by Luxembourg Business Registers.
Netherlands (NL) — UBO-register. Public access ended Nov 2022; currently limited to AML-obliged entities via KVK Dataservice/API. Broader access planned Q2 2026.
Norway (NO) — Register of Beneficial Owners. Voluntary filing opened Oct 2024; mandatory since Jul 2025. Not public. Managed by Brønnøysundregistrene via Altinn.
Sweden (SE) — Register över verkliga huvudmän. Restricted to AML-obliged entities, competent authorities, and legitimate-interest parties. Managed by Bolagsverket.
United Kingdom (UK) — People with Significant Control (PSC) Register. Public and free to search (not subject to EU CJEU restrictions post-Brexit). Identity verification required for PSCs since Nov 2025. Managed by Companies House.
Applications
KYC, AML, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), sanctions screening, supply chain transparency, ESG reporting, procurement, third-party risk management, financial services, insurance underwriting, corporate investigations, and global corporate intelligence.
Considerations for Using the Data
Access status changes frequently. Following the November 2022 CJEU ruling (WM and Sovim SA), most EU-member UBO registers moved from public to legitimate-interest-only access, and several transitions are still in progress, e.g. Italy pending a May 2026 CJEU ruling and the Netherlands planning broader access in Q2 2026. Treat the access status field as a snapshot as of mid-2026, not a permanent state.
Registry access does not equal data access. Restricted-access status affects querying the live registry directly; it does not affect the availability of ownership data Techsalerator has already licensed, extracted, or reconstructed through its registry-first methodology.
Coverage is expanding. This currently reflects 13 jurisdictions captured, a subset of Techsalerator's full UBO coverage footprint.
Licensing Information
This dataset is provided under a commercial Techsalerator data license. Contact Techsalerator for licensing terms and full dataset access.
Citation Information
Techsalerator. (2026). Global UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Ownership) Registries Dataset.
Dataset Card Contact
Techsalerator — techsalerator.com -info@techsalerator.com
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