email from Barclays17 Feb 2014 11:46
Not very good news - I received this today from Barclays:
Thank you for your email enquiring if we can accept a US share certificate for Xenetic, and add it to one of our nominee accounts.
I'm very sorry to advise that we're not able to accept a US share certificate into any of the nominee accounts that we offer. This includes our International Trader account. This account is operated for us by a third party who aren't able to facilitate share certificates.
While International Trader is a nominee account which can be used to trade in US stock, it's designed to invest using cash deposits. Shares purchased are held by us on your behalf, and can of course be sold online when you're ready to do so. Regrettably, physical share certificates can't be added to it.