Beneficial Ownership Data Standard v0.4

• An address provided in addition to the primary address for this entity or person that is neither a service nor a registered address.

• Another name that the person is known by. This might be an alias, a nickname or a name that the person is also known as (aka).

• Address ^c
• Name ^c

A controlling interest in an entity. Defined as the absolute right to appoint members of the board of directors.

A person who benefits from a trust or other legal arrangement's holdings or activities.

The legal name of the person at birth.

The person holding the most power and authority on the board of directors.

One of a group of people constituted as the strategic decision-making body of an organization.

A place where the entity conducts its business.

This is the final Statement published pertaining to the record referenced by recordId.

An interest that exists only if some contractual condition is met.

Control of an entity gained through a legal framework, such as a combination of legislation (primary and secondary). This type of interest is created by governments and legislators in order to establish and guide agencies and entities linked to the state.

Control of an entity gained through a provision in company articles or by shareholder agreement.

The use of assets belonging to an entity.

A name that the person has used in the past.

A name that identifies the person for legal, administrative and other official purposes. A person's legal name will usually be the one that is found on official government documents.

This is the first Statement published pertaining to the record referenced by recordId.

A person who instructs a nominee to act on their behalf in a specified capacity.

A person who agrees to act on behalf of the nominator in a specified capacity.

The information was taken from an official register.

Any influence or control in an entity that is distinct from being a shareholder, having voting rights or having the absolute right to appoint to the board.

The place where a person was born. A town (in the address field) and country may be sufficient information. This MUST only apply to the placeOfBirth field for natural persons.

The information was provided as a result of research into primary sources.

A person appointed to protect the interests or wishes of the settlor, providing influence and guidance to the trustee who administers the trust. This should also be used for a person with a protector-equivalent role in any legal arrangement that is similar to a trust.

An official address for delivering statutory mail and legal notices which must be provided to company registers. This MUST only apply to entities.

An address where someone lives. This MUST only apply to natural persons.

The right to derive profits, income or both from assets belonging to an entity.

An interest that is granted by contract.

An economic interest in an entity. Defined as beneficial ownership rights beyond those otherwise implied by ownership structures that are granted by contract.

The right to a share in the amount of an asset or resource that exceeds the portion that is utilized upon the winding up of an entity.

The information was provided by the person or entity referred to from declarationSubject, or by their authorised representative.

A controlling interest in an entity gained by employment. Defined as the person who exercises control over the management of the entity.

An address which can be used as an alternative to a residential address for the purpose of receiving post. This MUST only apply to natural persons.

A person who, either actually or by operation of law, creates a trust. They may be referred to by other names such as a trustor, a grantor or a donor. This should also be used for a person with a settlor-equivalent role in any legal arrangement that is similar to a trust.

An economic interest in an entity gained by holding shares.

The information was provided by a third party, not directly related to the person, entity or interests described by this statement.

A translation of the person's legal name in a different language.

A transliteration of the person's legal name in a different script.

A person who administers a trust for the benefit of a third party and in whom the legal title of the trust property is vested either by declaration of the settlor or by operation of law. This should also be used for a person with a trustee-equivalent role in any legal arrangement that is similar to a trust.

The interestedParty is known to have an interest in the subject of this Relationship Statement, but the nature of the interest is unknown.

The nature of this interest is known but is not published.

This Statement updates information published in a prior Statement pertaining to the record referenced by recordId.

The information has been verified through the process documented in the associated description.

A controlling interest in an entity gained by holding shares. Defined as the right of shareholders to vote on matters of corporate policy, including decisions on the makeup of the board of directors, issuing securities, initiating corporate actions and making substantial changes in the corporation's operations.

A reason MUST be supplied.

• Description ^p
• Reason ^p

Each declaration is a set of claims about the entities, people and relationships within the subject’s beneficial ownership network.

• Declaration Reference ^p
• Declaration Subject ^p

The Record Details in this Statement describe the interests held by an interested party in a subject (an entity) at a particular point in time.

• Interests ^p
• Interested Party ^p
• Subject ^p

This value is 'isPep' or 'isNotPep' according to whether the person described by this statement has the status of politically exposed person (PEP). An 'unknown' value means a PEP status declaration is expected but missing; the reason for the missing data SHOULD be supplied in the details array.

Identifying information of the stock or other security.

• Identifier Scheme ^p
• ID ^p
• Stock Ticker ^p

• Agent name ^p
• Agent URI ^p

• Asserted By ^p
• Created By ^p
• Publisher ^p

The details of the entity, person or relationship as declared on the Statement Date.

• Unspecified or unknown person or entity ^c
• Relationship ^c
• Person ^c
• Entity ^c

An identifier that has been assigned to a person or entity. scheme or schemeName (or both) MUST be included in an Identifier object.

• ID ^p
• Scheme Code ^p
• Scheme Name ^p
• URI ^p

A Jurisdiction MUST have a name. A jurisdiction SHOULD have a 2-letter country code (ISO 3166-1) or a subdivision code (ISO 3166-2).

• Country or Subdivision Code ^p
• Entity Name ^p

• Country ^p
• Jurisdiction ^p
• Nationality ^p
• Tax Residency ^p

Details of a security and the market on which it is traded.

• Market Identifier Code (MIC) ^p
• Operating Market Identifier Code (Operating MIC) ^p
• Security ^p
• Stock Exchange Jurisdiction ^p
• Stock Exchange Name ^p

Information about a person's political involvement.

• End Date ^p
• Jurisdiction ^p
• Missing Information Reasons ^p
• Reason ^p
• Source ^p
• Start Date ^p

Additional information about the data contained in this Statement. Annotations can apply to a whole statement, an object or a single field. Custom properties can be included within the Annotation object to provide structured data where required.

• Created By ^p
• Creation Date ^p
• Description ^p
• Motivation ^p
• Statement Fragment Pointer ^p
• Transformed Content ^p
• Source URL ^p

Details describing an information source.

• Asserted By ^p
• Description ^p
• Retrieved At ^p
• Source URL ^p

• Official register ^c
• Primary research ^c
• Self declaration ^c
• Third party ^c
• Verified ^c

Semi-structured address details, suitable for processing using address-parsing algorithms. Where postal codes and country information are isolated fields in source systems, this information SHOULD be published in the dedicated fields and SHOULD NOT be published in the address field.

• Country ^p
• Postcode ^p
• Address ^p

• Addresses ^p
• Place of Birth ^p

• Alternative address ^c
• Business address ^c
• Place of birth ^c
• Registered address ^c
• Residential address ^c
• Service address ^c

A name by which this person is known. A name MUST be provided in fullName, and MAY be broken down in the familyName, givenName and patronymicName fields, based on the EC ISA Core Person Vocabulary (https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/solution/e-government-core-vocabularies) definitions.

• Family Name ^p
• Full Name ^p
• Given Names ^p
• Patronymic Name ^p

• Alternative Names ^p
• Entity Name ^p

• Alternative address ^c
• Birth name ^c
• Former name ^c
• Legal name ^c
• Translation of name ^c
• Transliteration of name ^c

The Record Details in this Statement contain information about a natural person at a particular point in time.

• Addresses ^p
• Date of Birth ^p
• Death Date ^p
• Identifiers ^p
• Entity Name ^p
• Nationality ^p
• Politically Exposed Person (PEP) Status ^p
• Person Type ^p
• Place of Birth ^p
• Political Exposure ^p
• Tax Residency ^p

• Declaration Subject ^p
• Interested Party ^p

A claim about a person, entity or relationship, made at a particular point in time.

• Annotations ^p
• BODS Version ^p
• Declaration Reference ^p
• License URL ^p
• Publication date ^p
• Publisher ^p
• Record Details ^p
• Record Identifier ^p
• Source ^p
• Statement Date ^p
• Statement Identifier ^p

• Closed Record ^c
• New Record ^c
• Updated Record ^c

The Record Details in this Statement contain information that identifies and describes an entity at a particular point in time.

• Addresses ^p
• Alternative Names ^p
• Company Filings URLs ^p
• Dissolution Date ^p
• Subtype ^p
• Entity Type ^p
• Entity Type Details ^p
• Formed by Statute Date ^p
• Formed by Statute ^p
• Founding Date ^p
• Has Public Listing ^p
• Identifiers ^p
• Jurisdiction ^p
• Entity Name ^p
• Securities Listings ^p
• URI ^p

• Declaration Subject ^p
• Interested Party ^p
• Subject ^p

A description of an interest held by an interestedParty in the subject.

• Beneficial Ownership or Control ^p
• Details ^p
• Direct or Indirect ^p
• End Date ^p
• Exact percentage ^p
• Exclusive Maximum Percentage ^p
• Exclusive Minimum percentage ^p
• Maximum Percentage ^p
• Minimum Percentage ^p
• Start Date ^p

• Appointment of board ^c
• Beneficiary of a legal arrangement ^c
• Board chair ^c
• Board member ^c
• Conditional rights granted by contract ^c
• Control by legal framework ^c
• Control via company rules or articles ^c
• Enjoyment and use of assets ^c
• Nominator ^c
• Nominee ^c
• Other influence or control ^c
• Protector ^c
• Right to profit or income from assets ^c
• Rights granted by contract ^c
• Rights to receive profits or income ^c
• Rights to surplus assets on dissolution ^c
• Senior managing official ^c
• Settlor ^c
• Shareholding ^c
• Trustee ^c
• Unknown interest ^c
• Unpublished interest ^c
• Voting rights ^c

One or more addresses for this person.

• Entity ^c
• Person ^c

The name of the agent responsible for this action

A globally unique identifier or URL for this agent

An array of other names this entity is known by.

Annotations about this Statement or parts of this Statement

The people or organisations providing the information asserted in this Statement. This may include the declaring subject of a self-declaration, or the name of an agent making a declaration on their behalf. If this Statement has been verified, the array may include the name of the organisation providing verification.

Whether this interest (alone or with others) means the interested party is a beneficial owner of the subject. If 'true' the interested party MUST be a natural person. The definition of 'beneficial owner' in operation SHOULD be noted in accompanying guidance (such as a publication policy or data use guide).

The date of birth for this person, in YYYY, YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD format.

The version of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard to which this Statement conforms, expressed as major.minor (e.g. 0.2 or 1.0). In a published BODS dataset, all Statements MUST have the same major version number.

The 2-letter country code (ISO 3166-1) or the subdivision code (ISO 3166-2) for the jurisdiction.

URL or URLs where regulatory filings related to major holdings can be retrieved. URLs may point to pages maintained by regulatory bodies, stock exchanges or by the company itself.

The country for this address.

The person, organisation or agent that created this Annotation.

The date on which this Annotation was created, in full-date (YYYY-MM-DD) or date-time (e.g. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ) format. See the IETF RFC3339 standard, section 5.6.

The date of death for this person, in YYYY, YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD format.

An identifier or reference for a declaration within the publisher’s system. Where a Statement is a claim from a particular declaration (made at a point in time by a source about a declarationSubject) this field identifies the declaration.

• Literal
• Declaration ^c

An identifier or reference for a declaration within the publisher’s system. Where a Statement is a claim from a particular declaration (made at a point in time by a source about a declarationSubject) this field identifies the declaration.

A recordId value for the subject of a beneficial ownership network (always an entity or person).

• Entity ^c
• Person ^c

• A free text description providing extra information about part of this Statement.

• Additional information about the absence of details for a person or entity. This field may be used to provide set phrases from a source system, or a free text explanation.

• Additional, free text information about the source of information.

• Annotation ^c
• Source ^c
• Unspecified or unknown person or entity ^c

The local name given to this kind of interest, or further information (semi-structured or unstructured) to clarify the nature of the interest.

How directly the interest is exercised by the interested party. The value MUST be 'indirect' if intermediate entities or agents are known to exist, and MUST be 'direct' if such intermediaries are known not to exist. Otherwise the value MUST be 'unknown'.

The date on which this entity was dissolved or ceased, if it is no longer active. The date MUST be given in YYYY-MM-DD format. Where a precise month or date are not available, the value may be rounded to the first day of the (first) month. This rounding SHOULD be noted in accompanying guidance (such as a publication policy or data use guide).

• The date from which this interest ceased to exist. The date MUST be given in YYYY-MM-DD format. Where a precise month or date are unknown, the value may be rounded to the first day of the (first) month. This rounding SHOULD be noted in accompanying guidance (such as a publication policy or data use guide).

• The date from which this person no longer had the status of a Politically-exposed Person (PEP). The date MUST be given in YYYY-MM-DD format. Where a precise month or date are unknown, the value may be rounded to the first day of the (first) month. This rounding SHOULD be noted in accompanying guidance (such as a publication policy or data use guide).

• Interest ^c
• PEP Status Details ^c

The particular form of the entity, where relevant, using the entitySubtype codelist. The value MUST align with the entityType value.

The form of the entity described in the Statement.

This may be used to provide a local name for this type of entity, or any further information to identify the type of entity. For example, in Finland 'ministeriö' for a government department.

Part of the person's fullName which is shared by family members. The value may include prefixes or suffixes, e.g. 'de Boer', 'van de Putte', 'von und zu Orlow'. The value may be a multiple-part family name, such as are commonly found in Hispanic countries. For example, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Family Name would be recorded as 'de Cervantes Saavedra.'

The date on which the law came into force. The date MUST be given in YYYY-MM-DD format. Where a precise month or date are not available, the value may be rounded to the first day of the (first) month. This rounding SHOULD be noted in accompanying guidance (such as a publication policy or data use guide).

The law which mandated the formation of the entity described in the statement, where applicable. This information SHOULD be provided where a state has created an agency or other entity with specific legislation.

The date on which this entity was founded, created or registered. The date MUST be given in YYYY-MM-DD format. Where a precise month or date are not available, the value may be rounded to the first day of the (first) month. This rounding SHOULD be noted in accompanying guidance (such as a publication policy or data use guide).

The complete name of the person.

The part of the person's fullName that identifies the person within their family. These are given to a person by their parents at birth or may be legally recognised as 'given names' through a formal process. For example, the given name for Johann Sebastian Bach is 'Johann Sebastian'.

Whether the entity is a publicly listed company.

The scheme under which the security has been issued a unique, persistent identifier, using the securitiesIdentifierSchemes codelist.

• Literal
• codes:SecuritiesIdentifierScheme ^c

• The identifier for a person or entity, as issued by the scheme.

• The unique identifier of the security as issued under the idScheme.

• Identifier ^c
• Security ^c

One or more official identifiers for this person. Where available, official registration numbers should be provided.

• Entity ^c
• Person ^c

A description of the interests held by the interested party in the subject.

The recordId for the interested party in the relationship, or an Unspecified Record object with a reason for why this information has not been disclosed. The interested party MAY be an entity or a person. An Unspecified Record SHOULD only be used where no information at all is known about interested parties beyond this point of the beneficial ownership network. If the interested party is known to be an entity or person but their particular identity is unavailable, a recordId for them SHOULD be provided here (and the their recordDetails.[person|entity]Type should indicate that they are anonymous or unknown).

• Entity ^c
• Person ^c

• The jurisdiction in which this entity was registered or created (for legal and registered entities, and arrangements). Or the state's jurisdiction (for states and state bodies).

• The jurisdiction where this person is a PEP.

• Entity ^c
• PEP Status Details ^c

A link to the license that applies to this Statement. The canonical URI of the license SHOULD be used. Publishers are encouraged to use a Public Domain Dedication or Open Definition Conformant (http://opendefinition.org/licenses/) license.

The Market Identifier Code (MIC) of the market on which the security is traded. Where the security is traded on a segment of an exchange, this is the MIC of the segment. Where it is traded on the main exchange, this is the MIC of the main exchange and MUST match the operatingMarketIdentifierCode. MICs are allocated and managed under ISO standard 10383.

An explanation of why the PEP status for the person is not provided (i.e. politicalExposure.status is 'unknown'). This may be a standard descriptive phrase from the source system, or a free text justification. Where this field is present it should be the only field except for source.

The reason for this Annotation, using the annotationMotivation codelist.

• One or more known names for this person.

• The declared name of this entity.

• The name of the jurisdiction

• Entity ^c
• Jurisdiction ^c
• Person ^c

The nationalities held by this person.

The Market Identifier Code (MIC) of the main exchange or trading platform handling trades in this security. Where the security is traded on a segment of an exchange, this is the MIC of the parent exchange or trading platform. Where it is traded on the main exchange, this is the MIC of that main exchange and MUST match the marketIdentifierCode. MICs are allocated and managed under ISO standard 10383.

Part of the person's fullName which is inherited from their father, as is common in countries such as Iceland, Ethiopia and Russia. For example, the 'Sergeyevich' in 'Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev'.

This value is 'isPep' or 'isNotPep' according to whether the person described by this statement has the status of politically exposed person (PEP). An 'unknown' value means a PEP status declaration is expected but missing; the reason for the missing data SHOULD be supplied in the details array.

The status of this person, using the personType codelist. Where a person has the type 'anonymousPerson' or 'unknownPerson' a reason for the absence of information SHOULD be provided in 'unspecifiedPersonDetails'

The place where this person was born.

Information about whether, and how, the person described by this statement is politically exposed. Use this property only if politically exposed person (PEP) declarations are expected as part of beneficial ownership declarations.

The postal code for this address.

The date on which this statement was published, in full-date (YYYY-MM-DD) or date-time (e.g. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ) format. See the IETF RFC3339 standard, section 5.6.

Details of the organisation or person publishing a Statement.

• The reason for this person being declared a politically-exposed person.

• The reason that a person or entity cannot be specified, using the unspecifiedReason codelist.

• PEP Status Details ^c
• Unspecified or unknown person or entity ^c

• Literal
• bods:UnspecifiedReason ^c

The details of the entity, person or relationship as declared on the Statement Date.

A unique identifier for the record (within the publisher's system) to which this Statement relates. (A record captures information about an entity, natural person or relationship within the beneficial ownership network of a particular declaration subject.)

A timestamp indicating when this information was imported from an external system, in full-date (YYYY-MM-DD) or date-time (e.g. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ) format. See the IETF RFC3339 standard, section 5.6.

For entities, a code from org-id.guide (https://www.org-id.guide) for an identifier-issuing authority (e.g. 'GB-COH'). For natural persons, a value with the pattern {JURISDICTION}-{TYPE} where JURISDICTION is an ISO 3166-1 3-digit country code and TYPE is one of PASSPORT, TAXID or IDCARD.

The name of the identifier-issuing authority.

Details of the entity's securities and the public exchanges and markets on which they are traded. All equity securities SHOULD be listed here, plus any other securities from which beneficial ownership might be derived. Where a security is traded on more than one market, there SHOULD be an entry for each market (or market segment).

Identifying information of the stock or other security.

The exact share of this interest held (if available).

The exclusive upper bound of the share of this interest.

The exclusive lower bound of the share of this interest.

The inclusive upper bound of the share of this interest.

The inclusive lower bound of the share of this interest.

• The source of information in this statement. Each statement SHOULD contain source information.

• The source of this PEP information

• PEP Status Details ^c
• Statement ^c

• The date from which this interest was active. The date MUST be given in YYYY-MM-DD format. Where a precise month or date are unknown, the value may be rounded to the first day of the (first) month. This rounding SHOULD be noted in accompanying guidance (such as a publication policy or data use guide).

• The date from which this person had the status of a Politically-exposed Person (PEP). The date MUST be given in YYYY-MM-DD format. Where a precise month or date are unknown, the value may be rounded to the first day of the (first) month. This rounding SHOULD be noted in accompanying guidance (such as a publication policy or data use guide).

• Interest ^c
• PEP Status Details ^c

The date on which this statement was declared by the source, in full-date (YYYY-MM-DD) or date-time (e.g. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ) format. See the IETF RFC3339 standard, section 5.6.

A persistent globally unique identifier for this Statement. Length MUST be 32 - 64 characters (inclusive).

An RFC6901 JSON Pointer (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6901) describing the target fragment of the statement that this Annotation applies to, starting from the root of the Statement. An empty string ("") indicates that the Annotation applies to the whole Statement.

The 2-letter country code (ISO 3166-1) or the subdivision code (ISO 3166-2) for the jurisdiction under which the exchange, market or trading platform is regulated.

The name of the exchange, market or trading platform on which the security is traded. If the security is traded on a segment of the exchange, then the name SHOULD include both elements. For example, 'London Stock Exchange - MTF'.

The address, with each line or component separated by a line-break or comma.

The recordId for the subject of the relationship, or a reason why the subject cannot be specified. The subject MUST be an entity.

The tax residencies held by this person, as an array of Country objects.

The stock ticker identifying this security on the named stock exchange.

A representation of the Annotation target after the transformation in the description field has been applied. This field MUST only be used when the motivation is 'transformation'.

• A canonical URI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier) for the identifier and associated details of the person or entity, if one exists.

• Where a persistent URI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier) is available for this entity this should be included.

• Entity ^c
• Identifier ^c

• A linked resource that annotates, provides context for or enhances this Statement. The content of the resource, or the relationship to the statement, MAY be described in the description field. This field is REQUIRED if the value of motivation is 'linking'.

• The external URL from which this information was fetched, if relevant. Or, if relevant, a URL providing additional detail on how this information was sourced.

• Annotation ^c
• Source ^c