From Dirty Money to Clean Data: Entity Resolution, Beneficial Ownership & Sanctions in the Fight Against Illicit Finance
Senzing
01:05:07
Links in this webinar:
- OpenCheck
- GODIN
- Stephen's Slides
- Open Ownership
- News from UK Gov
- How Chile found 185,000 UBOs and spotted conflicts of interest
- In 2019, Companies House data was estimated to be worth £1 billion to £3 billion per year to users with PSC information accounting for around 4% of the total value — and up to 13% of the value for ‘high use’ users. Read more
With the UK Government's Illicit Finance Summit just weeks away, the pressure to act on beneficial ownership transparency has never been greater. Governments are demanding cleaner data. Regulators are tightening sanctions screening. Investigators need to connect the dots across complex corporate structures — fast.
Join Senzing and Understand Beneficial Ownership for a practical, policy-grounded talk on how entity resolution technology is transforming the fight against illicit finance — from disambiguating beneficial owners across fragmented registries to real-time sanctions matching at scale.
What You'll Learn
- Why beneficial ownership data is only as useful as the entity resolution behind it — and what happens when it breaks down
- How the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard (BODS) works and where global adoption stands
- How Senzing entity resolution technology disambiguates individuals and legal entities across complex, multi-jurisdictional corporate structures
- Real-world approaches to sanctions screening, PEP matching, and tracking ownership through shell companies and proxies
Speakers
Paco Nathan
Principal DevRel Engineer, Senzing
Paco Nathan leads DevRel for the Entity Resolved Knowledge Graph practice area at Senzing and is a computer scientist with +40 years of tech industry experience and core expertise in data science, natural language, graph technologies, and cloud computing. He's the author of numerous books, videos, and tutorials about these topics.
Stephen Abbott Pugh
Beneficial Ownership Transparency and Data Consultant
Stephen Abbott Pugh is a beneficial ownership transparency and data consultant based in Brussels, Belgium. He has extensive experience helping governments pursue beneficial ownership transparency and use beneficial ownership data. He was the product owner of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, the world's leading open standard for beneficial ownership information. https://stephenabbottpugh.medium.com/
From Dirty Money to Clean Data: Entity Resolution, Beneficial Ownership & Sanctions in the Fight Against Illicit Finance
01:05:07