Transfer of shares should take place “by wire transfer”, that is by debiting shares from one account and crediting them to another account.
If transfers of shares and interests in companies were performed merely electronically via transfers from account to account kept by banks (similarly to wireless money transfers), it would be much more difficult to conceal the identity of transferors and acquirers (shareholders).
Sources:
- Report of the European Commission on the fight against corruption in the EU, Annex Czech Republic, Annex 3, COM(2014) 38 final , p. 8 - 9
- The Economist, Corporate Anonymity – Light and wrong, 21 January 2012, p. 55
- The Economist, Corporate Anonymity - Ultimate Privilege, 21 January 2012, p. 55
- Market Analysis of Shareholder Transparency Regimes in Europe, European Central Bank, 11 February 2011
- Anticorruption Endowment / Public Against Corruption, Initiative End to Corruption – Proposal for abolition of anonymous paper shares, 2011, [online]
- Vondráček, O., Electronic securities – Transparency of Corporate Ownership Structures, Auditorium, 2013, p. 42
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 19: Abolition of certificated (paper) shares, December 2013
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