Digging deep

Imagine a world in which companies don't know who owns them – an Orwellian nightmare where effective control of your firm lies in the hands of shadowy, indeterminate, nameless owners. Now slap yourself and wake up. We're in the third millennium, for goodness sake: an age of transparency, openness and technology. How difficult can it be to identify your shareholders? Well, even in this day and age, the answer appears to be 'Not that easy at all, actually.' 'For most companies, it is