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ChangeLog

Attention

This is v0.1 of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard. It includes updates to the data model and additional codelist information.

Implementers should be aware that future changes are anticipated, before a version 1.0 release. However, from this v0.1 release onwards, any structural changes, or major definitional changes will only take place following consultation, with a clear changelog provided, and with the documentation of previous versions maintained in archive form.

The schema specifies a structure, fields and codelists but does not yet enforce validation constraints on most fields.

[0.1] - 2018-12-12

Added

  • beneficialOwnershipOrControl property added to Interest object. Takes a boolean value. Can be used to to assert that an interest between a natural person and an entity makes that person a beneficial owner.
  • pepStatus property add to personStatement object. Allows a natural person to be recorded as a politically exposed person (with a related reason, jurisdiction, start date and end date).
  • annotations property added to all three types of statement. Annotations provide a way of including additional (structured) data or transforming existing data in a targeted way.
  • An unspecified property replaces the nullParty option for interested parties. An unspecifiedReason codelist provides options for describing why an interested party is not recorded.

Changed

  • The interestType codelist has been extended to include interests in trusts.
  • The structure of BODS-formatted data has been flattened, to remove extraneous nesting and facilitate serialization using JSON Lines.
  • ‘Beneficial ownership statements’ have been renamed ‘Ownership-or-control statements’ to reflect the scope of their use.

Removed

  • Arrays of statementGroup objects (each object with its own statement group id) are no longer used to package arrays of statements. This reflects a flattening of the structure of BODS formatted data.
  • The nullParty option for interested parties. See unspecified property in the Added section above.