The stock that can be transferred into your account varies. You can only place CREST eligible securities into your CREST account. So this means that you will have to hold residual stocks (stocks that are not CREST eligible) and foreign holdings in paper.
With a Nominee Account you can hold all types of securities which we can deal for you through the Deposit Account Sharedealing Service.
To transfer your paper holding into a CREST or Nominee Account, you will have to sign and return a dematerialisation form. If you are applying for the first time your application pack will include a form on which you can list all the holdings you wish to transfer. Please return this along with the share certificates from which Deposit Account will produce the relevant dematerialisation forms.
If you are already registered please provide the share certificates to be dematerialised into your CREST or Nominee Account. We will then arrange to have relevant documentation sent out to you. On receipt simply sign the dematerialisation form(s) and return them to Deposit Account.
If you have any questions relating to this then please do not hesitate to contact us.
This depends greatly on the registrars who handle your stock. It normally takes 10 working days from the documents being received to the holdings appearing on your account. If you wish to sell your stock during this period please contact us.
There is a £15 + VAT charge for transferring to another broker or returning the stock to paper (certificate). If you wish to do this please contact us and we will help you with your requirements.
Occasionally a certificate may be registered differently to the name of the applicant. For example, it may be in a joint name, have an account designation or be in a married or maiden name.
If this is the case we will send you a stock transfer to complete signing the stock over to the name of the registered applicant. If you require a stock transfer at any time please contact us.
In the event that a security is being transferred from a different name to that in which we will hold it, you will be required to provide identification documentation from the transferor, or documents which confirm the different name e.g. marriage certificate, in order that we may carry out the required Anti-Money Laundering verification checks.
If you are transferring a security from another custodian, please provide us with their contact details and we will make contact with them.
Please note that your existing broker/custodian may charge you for transfers.