ESI and The Stock Exchange

Date01 April 1996
Published date01 April 1996
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/eb025773
Pages176-179
AuthorLisa Linklater
Subject MatterAccounting & finance
SECURITIES REGULATION
ESI and The Stock Exchange
Lisa Linklater
Journal of Financial Crime Vol. 4 No. 2 Securities Regulation
The Stock Exchange is not renowned for its love
of technology, and its strong-armed reaction to the
product offered to investors by Electronic Share
Information Limited (ESI), a Cambridge-based
computer company, and Sharelink Ltd, the Bir-
mingham-based execution-only share dealing ser-
vice,
in September 1995, was perhaps unsurprising.
THE PRODUCT
ESI and Sharelink combined forces to capitalise on
the fast-growing market in personal computers, the
Internet and private investment. On the one hand,
ESI,
whose driving force is Dr Hermann Hauser,
co-founder of Acorn Computers plc, offered the
technological expertise to use the Internet to pro-
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