Just eight of the UK’s fourteen overseas territories have agreed to establish publicly accessible beneficial ownership registers within the next three years as part of attempts to improve financial transparency.

The most significant financial centre yet to make company beneficial ownership details public is the British Virgin Islands (BVI) where the administration has been critical of UK efforts to persuade them to make registers compulsory and public.

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