KYC, CDD and Open Source Data - Chris Taggart, CEO and CO-Founder, OpenCorporates (UK, recorded on 26 June 2020)

Chris Taggart, CEO and Co-Founder, OpenCorporates joins Marie Lundberg and Sam Sheen for a chat about the work of OpenCorporates, the biggest open company database in the world, their recent report " EU Company Data: State of the Union 2020 How poor access to company data is undermining the European Union", the importance of data access and aggregation, investigation of nefarious actors hiding behind corporate structures, the importance of transparency and public access to deterring the misuse of companies by illicit actors and the real financial cost to financial institutions trying to access some company registry data here in Europe and OpenCorporates move from a snapshot database to an iterative continuous information tool.