A share certificate can be in either a registered form or bearer form. A registered share certificate is only evidence of title ownership, while a bearer share certificate, now uncommon, entitles ...

A bearer form is a stock or bond certificate that is not registered in the issuing corporation's books but is payable to the person possessing it. Thus, one must only possess (bear) the instrument ...

Bearer shares have existed in common and civil law jurisdictions for centuries, but it's only in the last 15 years or so that they've been identified as a favourite tool of money launderers and ...

Abolishing bearer certificates, also known as share warrants to bearer, or otherwise implementing measures to prevent their misuse, is required under international standards on anti-money ...

Bearer shares bypass this by not including the name of the holder on a physical share certificate. What is the point of them? Because there is no name is attached to them, the details of who owns ...

Solicitor Michael Lynn was reorganising the corporate structure behind his European property companies when the Law Society launched… ...