transfer agent
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈtrænsfɜr ˈeɪdʒənt/
- Specialized
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agente de transferencia
- Here the rabbi paused and gestured for me to stand next to him, "You may, if you wish, designate this man as your shaliah l'mesirah, your transfer agent."
- a transfer agent for companies
Examples
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Three cases involve transfer agents, two are miscellaneous, two involve municipal offerings, and one involves the FCPA.
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These include actions against registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, and transfer agents for violations of various regulatory and disclosure requirements; they also include stop orders targeting false registered offerings of securities.
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The overall numbers include three transfer agent actions filed in AP, two municipal securities actions filed in court, one miscellaneous action filed in court and one in AP, and one FCPA action filed in court.
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"DTCC is engaged in active discussions with representatives of various transfer agents for the purpose of establishing a protocol for the issuance of replacement certificates, without requiring the presentation of the original certificates."
Blog text (8) -
DTCC is engaged in active discussions with representatives of various transfer agents for the purpose of establishing a protocol for the issuance of replacement certificates, without requiring the presentation of the original certificates.
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The file-transfer service runs on a collection of EC2 instances hosted in the U.S. East region, including a transaction database, transfer agents, history database, transfer REST API server, CLI server, and backup.
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In other words, anyone who made a mountain out of this particular molehill sadly has no idea how modern markets operate, since all that the DTCC needs to do to remedy the flooding damage is to notify transfer agents of this natural disaster and then have duplicate stock certificates printed at a cost of 1 cent for every thousand or so printouts.
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The company hired a new transfer agent to manage its stockholder records and facilitate transactions.
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To issue new stock certificates, the corporation submitted their details to the transfer agent for processing.
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Investors often contact the transfer agent to view their holdings and update their personal information.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'transfer' (to move) + 'agent' (a person or organization acting on behalf of others) yields an agent who handles transfers. This noun–noun compound follows a common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the basic role even if they may not know the detailed, securities-specific duties.
Etymology
Transfer agent comes from the simple image of a person who transfers papers and acts as an agent for a company. Imagine a clerk who moves stock certificates and updates the 'records' when 'ownership' changes, so it means the company that manages and records these 'transfers'.