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Corporate Sponsored Nominee

If a company that you invest in offers a Corporate Sponsored Nominee service, you can enjoy the convenience and reassurance of holding your shares electronically.  

This spares you having to look after paper certificates but still lets the company offer you shareholder benefits.

If the company in which you hold shares offers a Corporate Sponsored Nominee you can:

  • access competitive dealing rates and faster settlement
  • forget about looking after paper share certificates
  • simplify your personal records with regular share statements
  • increase your privacy as your shareholder details are taken off the public share register
  • benefit from the reassurance of regulation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA)

    How does it work?

    The Corporate Sponsored Nominee works by removing investors names from the main register and holding them together with other investors in the nominee company. A separate register of underlying individual investors is maintained behind the scenes by the nominee.

    You will still enjoy the benefits of owning shares, retain the right to receive dividend payments and the company will generally make available financial information and arrange for you to attend and vote on matters put to general meetings of the company.

    Does my company offer a Corporate Sponsored Nominee?

    To see if the company you hold shares in, or wish to hold shares in, offers a corporate sponsored nominee service, please review the CSN company page. 

    Corporate Sponsored Nominee companies

     

    How do I join a Corporate Sponsored Nominee?

    If you already have a shareholding in one of the companies listed on the Corporate Sponsored Nominee company page, you can open an account by transferring shares in the CSN.  To do this please call 0871 384 2030 to obtain a copy of the terms and conditions and an application form. Calls to this number are charged at 8p per minute from a BT landline. Other telephony provider costs may vary.

    Completed forms should be returned, together with your share certificate(s) to:

    Equiniti Aspect House Spencer Road Lancing West Sussex BN99 6DA


    Equiniti Limited and Equiniti Financial Services Limited are part of the Equiniti group of companies and whose registered offices are Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex BN99 6DA, United Kingdom. Company share registration, employee scheme and pension administration services are provided through Equiniti Limited, which is registered in England & Wales with No. 6226088. Investment and general insurance services are provided through Equiniti Financial Services Limited, which is registered in England & Wales with No. 6208699 and is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority.