transfer agent

Noun

Meaning

transfer agent (plural transfer agents)

(law) An entity designated by a publicly-traded corporation to keep track of the ownership of the corporation's stocks and bonds

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Hypernyms

agency

Examples

Among brokerages and mutual fund companies, a large amount of mutual fund share transactions take place among intermediaries as opposed to shares being sold and redeemed directly with the transfer agent of the fund. Source: Internet

Design By design Fetchmail's only means of delivering messages is by submitting them to the local MTA/ Message transfer agent ; delivering directly to mail folders such as maildir is not supported. Source: Internet

Book-entry means the company's transfer agent maintains the shares on the owner's behalf without the need for physical share certificates. Source: Internet

Operation A message transfer agent receives mail from either another MTA, a mail submission agent (MSA), or a mail user agent (MUA). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

transfemorally transfenestration transfer transfer agreements transfer arrangements transfer authority