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China just built the largest beneficial ownership filing regime in the world — and made the data inaccessible to almost

Canada is the most fragmented UBO regime in the developed world — and one of the most accessible. That’s the

The United States is the hardest jurisdiction in the developed world to verify a UBO. And in 2025 it got

Luxembourg has the most professionally-administered UBO register in the EU and one of the strictest access regimes. Both at once.

Ireland has one of the most layered UBO frameworks in the EU, and the easiest one to get wrong. There

Finland has maintained a beneficial ownership register as part of the Finnish Trade Register since 1 July 2020 — one

Norway Beneficial Ownership Register (Brønnøysund): UBO Data, Access & the 2025 Rollout Norway’s Register of Beneficial Owners — Register over

25% UBO threshold (direct or indirect ownership) 10 days Deadline to notify UBO changes to the Mercantile Registry Feb 2025

  25%UBO threshold (capital or voting rights) ~600KSwiss entities in scope of LETA CHF 500KMaximum fine for intentional non-compliance Mid-2026Expected

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