transfer agent

  • 1transfer agent — see agent Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. transfer agent n. A …

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  • 2transfer agent — n. a bank or trust company charged with keeping a record of the shareholders of a corporation and issuing and canceling stock certificates as shares are bought and sold …

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  • 3Transfer agent — Companies that have publicly traded securities typically use transfer agents to keep track of the individuals and entities that own their stocks and bonds. Most transfer agents are banks or trust companies, but sometimes a company acts as its own …

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  • 4Transfer agent — Individual or institution appointed by a company to look after the transfer of securities. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * transfer agent transfer agent ➔ agent * * * transfer agent UK US noun [C] FINANCE ► a person or financial… …

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  • 5transfer agent — Individual or institution a company appoints to look after the transfer of securities. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary The party appointed by the issuer. It updates records of investor accounts to reflect the daily investor purchases, redemptions …

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  • 6Transfer Agent — A trust company, bank or similar financial institution assigned by a corporation to maintain records of investors and account balances and transactions, to cancel and issue certificates, to process investor mailings and to deal with any… …

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  • 7transfer agent — A person having the duty of registering a transfer of corporate stock. 18 Am J2d Corp § 408. Not a managing agent within the meaning of a statute concerning the service of process upon a foreign corporation. Anne: 113 ALR 79 …

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  • 8transfer agent —    A person or company used by a corporation to process the transfer and registration of stock certificates …

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  • 9transfer agent — noun an agency (usually a bank) that is appointed by a corporation to keep records of its stock and bond owners and to resolve problems about certificates • Hypernyms: ↑agency * * * noun : the officer, bank, or trust company that keeps the… …

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  • 10transfer agent — a person, bank, or trust company officially designated to act for a corporation in executing and recording the transfers of its stock from one legal owner to another. * * * …

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