Interesting Article - Reminds me of a recent experience when I registered a few companies, one of them included R&D in the name. No problem for UK companies house, online registration within minutes. But has been surprising how much grief the & character causes with other systems. Banking systems refuse to accept it, they only accept a very limited number of characters for names. Should have used RnD like AirBnB - is ridiculous though, that gymnastics like this are still required in 2017! In the EU most banks are relaxed about account names, they just rely on IBANs but in places like Serbia they are annoyingly anal and reject payments if the name does not match exactly.
