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Nov 30, 1995

All Aboard the Titanic

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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