Yorkieabroad

FD (which of course is part of HSBC now) used to be good - telephone your order in, they would execute it, confirm back, and send you the crest transfer form (or was it prior crest - can't remember what the system was). to complete and return within I think 5 days and all was fine and dandy. I used to use it when we lived in singapore, which meant to beat the timeline they would fax the forms and I'd fedex the certs back to them. It worked like a charm, but for some reason they've stopped doing it.