12/11/2025 – On 5-6 November 2025, the Global Forum Secretariat hosted a virtual event focused on central registers of beneficial owners in the context of the Latin America Initiative, bringing together over 100 participants from 13 Latin American member jurisdictions. The event featured insights from civil society organisations, including the Tax Justice Network and Open Ownership, as well as from international organisations, such as the Financial Action Task Force for Latin America (Grupo de Acción Financiera de Latinoamérica - GAFILAT), and showcased peer experiences from Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
The event provided participants with practical guidance on implementing effective central registers of beneficial ownership, offering an overview of the key requirements and components of a robust beneficial ownership framework. Discussions focused on the common gaps and challenges observed in the region and highlighted lessons learned and good practices in establishing and maintaining central registers.
Transparency of beneficial ownership information is critical for tackling tax evasion, money laundering, terrorist financing, and corruption. Central registers of beneficial owners are gaining momentum in Latin America, as a practical and powerful tool to ensure the availability of beneficial ownership information.
The event marked an important step towards advancing the objectives of the Latin America Initiative, which seeks to combat tax evasion, promote tax transparency and strengthen international administrative co-operation across the region. It also reflects the Global Forum's ongoing commitment to supporting its members through capacity-building initiatives and fostering greater regional co-operation.
The Global Forum is the leading multilateral body mandated to ensure that jurisdictions around the world adhere to and effectively implement the Standard on Transparency and Exchange of Information on Request and the Standards of Automatic Exchange of Information, covering financial accounts data and crypto-asset transactions. These objectives are achieved through a robust monitoring and peer review process. The Global Forum also runs an extensive capacity-building programme to support its members in implementing the standards and help tax authorities make the best use of cross-border information sharing channels.
The Global Forum’s worldwide capacity-building programme is supported by the following development partners:
