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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.
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.
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).
This new system was a type of book-entry direct registration system (DRS) operated by a stock transfer agent. This concept would allow any retail investor who wants his or her securities to be registered directly on the books of the issuer, but does not necessarily want to receive a certificate, to register those securities in book-entry form ...
Stock transfer agent → – 'Stock transfer agent' is a narrow term referring only to those transfer agents that manage stock transfers and shareholder registries for publicly traded companies. The broader term 'transfer agent' includes transfer agents that manage non-stock ownership shares (securities) in both public and private investment funds.
Homeownership has long been known as a tool for building wealth and lifting Americans into the middle class. But a new report highlights other ways in which renting burdens many households ...
Transfer agents were responsible for eligibility coordination years ago. Now, in order to make a new issue of securities eligible for DTC's delivery services, a completed and signed eligibility questionnaire must be submitted to DTC's Underwriting Department, Eligibility.