Commercial registers and transparency

Heidemann, Maren

doi:10.14296/ac.v2017i112.5042

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“…This register, called People with Significant Control (PSC), was established by the Small Business, Enterprise, and Employment Act 2015. It is the companies' responsibility to report and update the information on its direct owners: they are required to file a confirmation statement at least once a year [40].…”

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α-Indirect Control in Onion-like Networks

Polovnikov,

Pospelov,

Skougarevskiy

2021

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Tens of thousands of parent companies control millions of subsidiaries through long chains of intermediary entities in global corporate networks. Conversely, tens of millions of entities are directly held by sole owners. We propose an algorithm for identification of ultimate controlling entities in such networks that unifies direct and indirect control and allows for continuous interpolation between the two concepts via a factor damping long paths. By exploiting onion-like properties of ownership networks the algorithm scales linearly with the network size and handles circular ownership by design. We apply it to the universe of 4.2 mln UK companies and 4 mln of their holders to understand the distribution of control in the country. Furthermore, we provide the first independent evaluation of the control identification results. We reveal that the proposed α-ICON algorithm identifies more than 96% of beneficiary entities from the evaluation set and supersedes the existing approaches reported in the literature. We refer the superiority of α-ICON algorithm to its ability to correctly identify the parents long away from their subsidiaries in the network.

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confidence: 99%