Public beneficial ownership registers and trust beneficiaries: Different jurisdictions, part two

By Daniel Frajman (July 14, 2023, 9:08 AM EDT) -- The first part of this series found that there seems to be a fair amount of consistency among the public policy considerations of various governments when deciding whether or not to create a public register for the reporting of beneficial owners and controllers of private corporations including as regards their trust shareholders, mainly that if a government is interested in using the register’s transparency to combat fraud generally, there seems to be a greater possibility that the register in that jurisdiction will be a public one....

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