A transfer agent is assigned by a corporation with publicly traded securities to track individuals that own their stocks and bonds. Transfer agents have several responsibilities, including executing shareholder transactions and maintaining shareholder records. Audit Analytics tracked 10,107 transfer agent … Continue reading
Category Archives: Transfer Agents
Transfer Agent Market Share – 2021
A transfer agent is assigned by a corporation with publicly traded securities to track individuals that own their stocks and bonds. Transfer agents have several responsibilities, including managing/maintaining records for investors and making sure these investors receive appropriate payments. Here, … Continue reading
Transfer Agent Market Share – 2020
Note: The methodology used for this analysis was updated to remove open-end mutual funds, and to remove companies that have not filed documents with the SEC in over a year. Because of this change in methodology, all historical analyses related … Continue reading
Audit Analytics for Transfer Agents
Continental Stock Transfer & Trust, the largest U.S. owned transfer agent, provides shareholder related recordkeeping services to 1,250 public and private companies and cross-border agent services to 100 global issuers. We spoke with Karri Van Dell, Vice President of Continental … Continue reading
Transfer Agents: Computershare Leads in Shareholders
Computershare, industry leader among transfer agents, dominates the market in more ways than one. Not only is Computershare the leader in market share, but also in number of shareholders managed. A combined 47,068,335 shareholders have been reported by over 10,500 … Continue reading
Transfer Agents: Broadridge Showing Gains
Broadridge may not be the number one transfer agent in market share, but the company is still proving to be a strong competitor. Since 2010, the company has not lost a single client to American Stock Transfer & Trust, Continental … Continue reading
Transfer Agents: AST On the Rise
Acquiring BNY Mellon Shareowner Services has certainly worked in Computershare’s favor. Computershare/BNY Mellon is the transfer agent for an astonishing 30.9% of a total population of 10,644 active SEC filers, making the company number one in market share. American Stock Transfer & … Continue reading