Information about politically exposed persons, sanctioned entities, and beneficial owners is scattered across multiple data sources. Whether you’re a compliance officer at a financial institution or an investigator or journalist following suspicious funds, tracking down the right information is often a complex task.

Open Ownership and OpenSanctions are two organizations working to facilitate data access to in turn empower those fighting financial crime. In a live interview with Stephen Abbott Pugh, Head of Technology at Open Ownership, and Friedrich Lindenberg, founder of OpenSanctions, we’ll talk about some of the barriers around ownership and sanctions data, what their organizations are doing to break them down, and the stories the data can tell us.