Global Updates on Cyber Resilience, Transparency and Modernisation
April underscored the operational and security pressures on registries — from Nigeria’s portal cyberattack and ASIC’s legacy-system fixes to the workforce impact of automation at MBIE. Debate over beneficial-ownership transparency ran hot on both sides of the Atlantic. Here is our round-up of the month’s corporate-registry news.
Here are this month’s highlights:
- Australia: ASIC turns to an outsourcer for legacy registry issues
ASIC engaged an outsourcer to tackle legacy registry problems, part of the ongoing effort to stabilise and uplift Australia’s business registers under RegistryConnect.
Read More - Nigeria: CAC suspends company-registration portal after cyberattack
Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission temporarily suspended its companies-registration portal following a cyberattack, disrupting incorporations nationwide.
Read More - Europe: How Europe’s retreat from corporate transparency shields the corrupt
An OCCRP feature argued that closures of public beneficial-ownership registers across Europe are hampering journalists and investigators just as a key reform deadline looms.
Read More - Hong Kong: Companies Registry refreshes its electronic register
Hong Kong’s Companies Registry rolled out a refreshed electronic register system, modernising public access to company information.
Read More - United States: Editorial: the Corporate Transparency Act ‘is not harmless’
A Washington Post editorial argued the Corporate Transparency Act created a costly compliance mess, adding to US debate over federal beneficial-ownership reporting.
Read More - British Virgin Islands: New company register launches
The BVI launched a new company register, continuing offshore jurisdictions’ platform-modernisation drive amid transparency pressure.
Read More - Global: User-friendly forms for the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
A practitioner piece explored how to design user-friendly web forms that collect ownership data in line with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard — making data easy to submit as well as use.
Read More - Global: AI conversations may be discoverable in litigation
A widely shared post warned that enterprise AI chats may not be privileged in litigation — useful risk awareness, but not a registry story.
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Stay updated by visiting often our "Registry News Weekly" summary and the Foster Moore blog for more insights on these stories and other key registry news.
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