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A stock transfer agent, transfer agent, share registry or transfer agency is an entity, usually a third-party firm unrelated to security transactions, that manages the change in ownership of company stock or investment fund shares, maintains a register of ownership and acts as paying agent for the payment of dividends and other distributions to investors.
Stock transfer may be: Stock transfer agent , an individual or organisation involved in transferring the name and certificate of one master shareholder of stock to another. Stock transfer (housing) , the process in which ownership of council housing is transferred to a housing association.
Certificate for a share in Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation, Great Britain, 1808. In corporate law, a stock certificate (also known as certificate of stock or share certificate) is a legal document that certifies the legal interest (a bundle of several legal rights) of ownership of a specific number of shares (or, under Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code in the United States, a ...
Bearer shares are transferred by simply delivering the certificate to a new holder. When the bearer shares are sold, it is not required to make any transfer inscriptions on the share certificate: The share is transferred by the physical transfer of the certificate from the seller (the bearer of the share certificate) to the buyer. The transfer ...
A central securities depository (CSD) is a specialized financial market infrastructure organization holding securities like shares, either in certificated or uncertificated (dematerialized) form, allowing ownership to be easily transferred through a book entry rather than by a transfer of physical certificates.
Fund administration is the name given to the execution of back office activities including fund accounting, financial reporting, net asset value calculation, capital calls, distributions, investor communications and other functions carried out in support of an investment fund, which may take the form of a traditional mutual fund, a hedge fund, a private equity fund, a venture capital fund, a ...
In 2008, the company established CDC Share Registrar Services Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary. [6] It provides registrar and transfer agent services to share issuing companies, handling customer interactions on behalf of these companies. [6] [7] ITMinds Limited, another wholly-owned subsidiary of the CDC, was established in 2009. [6]
Hawala or hewala (Arabic: حِوالة ḥawāla, meaning transfer or sometimes trust), originating in India as havala (Hindi: हवाला), also known as havaleh in Persian, [1] and xawala or xawilaad [2] in Somali, is a popular and informal value transfer system based on the performance and honour of a huge network of money brokers (known as hawaladars).