UK companies and their advisers are woefully unprepared for next year's introduction of paperless settlement under Crest and its implications for shareholder analysis
Until about ten years ago - when the word crest still meant the curly foaming ridge at the top of a wave - share registers were about as important to captains of UK industry as passenger lists were to captains of trans-Atlantic liners. It was important to know who was on board as the ship set sail, and which passengers should be placed at the captain's table, but otherwise it was a document of little interest. It was produced for ritual lifeboat drills and other set piece occasions, such as
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