Please help me. I just found out that I still have my money in the defunct Intercontinental bank. Actually, I bought some shares back in 2006 from this bank. I still have their deposit slip with me. How can I claim my money? Please advice.

Get in touch with {United Securities Limited}

I should add though that you ought to have gotten your share certificates by now or returned money depending on the outcome of your application....given that Access Bank is also teething through its acquisition of Intercontinental Bank, you will have to play the vulture - exercise an extreme deal of patience - and prepare for an unreal price valuation relative to your initial investment...cheers...

@mayorflag:
When he contacts {United Securities Limited}, what kind of help is he likely to get? What would they ask for? What will he get in return?

They will require to know
- if has a copy of his application form
- a deposit slip evidencing that he paid for the shares
- if he is the true owner, by confirming his ID with an Int'l passport/ Drivers Licence
- if he can answer a few details off the bat to confirm his identity (contact address, date of birth etc.)

They will check their records to confirm the status of the application whether
- his application was rejected or
- his application was partially/ fully accepted
- he has returned money and the status of the returned money
- he has dividends and what has become of them

In any case he should ask on the latter even if they don't give him...

What if one bought the shares through a stock broker? I have a receipt from the stockbroking company and a text message from nse confirming the no of shares bought.

@ Juliebest: It seems your question might be different. Did you buy the shares during a public offer? If yes, same as earlier discussed applies to you.

If the stockbroker helped you purchase on the floor of the stock exchange, your shares are lodged with CSCS under the custodianship of the stockbroking firm your stockbrokers worked for at the time of the purchase. Your dividend should have been sent to the address you specified in your application form, depending on if you the company declared dividend. In any case you did not mention the name of the company's shares that you bought...

Thanks @Seun, Mayoroflag and Keni. Just searching through my old books, I found a dividend payment slip from the same bank (Intercontinental bank). Which means my application was accepted then. But never received any certificate.

I just forgot that I had share in that bank due to relocation.

You might need to confirm the status of your certificate because there was a time that a syndicate was lifting various certificates and dividends from the mail system and converting them while passing off as the owners.

You might do well to call them first.

Thanks mayoroflag. I bought intercontinental bank shares thru cashcraft. I was told that my dividend wil b sent 2 my bank acc on my application form. But now they r acces bank,does it mean I now have access bank shares? I've not receivd d certificate.

Eventually, you'll get the Access Bank share certificate.

You should visit the registrars to obtain info on what has become of your shares and dividends and treat this as urgent..

You need to get your evidence of purchase and go to any near by Access bank branch.

You will be attended to and your request will be sent to United Securities for proper verification of onwership.

After wish your request will be treated and your understanding warrants, bonus and share certificate will be diapatched via the address provided,

Regards

mayoroflag(m), jzsho(m),Please I seem to have a different issue I how 29,000 units and I already have the certificat beacause I bought it through share loan but as i speak I have never received any dividend on it. How do I know the equivalent to Access bank shares and is it possible to sell it off? because I want to dispose it. Thanks.