In the fast-growing world, everyone is running in the race, even the investment environment. These days mutual fund investors, financial institutions, and publicly traded organizations are having several investors who do many transactions each day. Their transactions too hold buy, sell, or transfer of share units along with mutual fund houses or organizations have to sustain the exact records of all their transactions.
Balancing an exact record of the proper transactions is an easy job and this is why companies or authorities who are able to handle and balance the transaction record are needed in this investment environment such as SAG RTA ( Registrar and Share Transfer Agent) can assist this sector and they maintain record by keeping sustenance and data updates work for financing for Banks, corporate and financial institutions and companies.
Share Transfer Agent
Share Transfer Agent is liable for balancing records of holders or investors holding securities sprung by such corporate bodies and agents do look after the whole process of transfer and saving of securities on account of corporate bodies.
Therefore, agents who get hired by an organization to keep records of security owners are termed as Registrar and Transfer Agent. Although, balancing the records isn’t the only venture they do.
The core work of transfer agents is to proceed or cancel the certificates of the securities according to the changes taking place in the proprietorship of the securities to pretend as a mediator for the company.
Responsibilities of a Registrar & Share Transfer Agent
- Security transmits and balances records for investors.
- Make aware of the investor update along with the fresh fund offers.
- Certificate’s agreement for allocation or call monies.
- Channeling, centralizing, and sub-division of securities.
- Transmit of transferred securities and securities acquired for transmission/combination /subdivision etc, straight to the investors.
- Renovate the owner’s name or exchange the certificate when the holders had traded the sureties.
Elect a Share transfer Agent or Manage the in- house share transfer facility
- If the entity has a certain number of stockholders which is less than 1 Lacs, in that case, the entity will hire a share transfer agent or Manage the in-house share transferal amenity.
- If the entity has a certain number of stockholders which is more than 1 lacs, in that case, the entity will be listed with the board as a category 2 share transfer agent or hire a share transfer agent.
Agreement Certificate to Board
The entity will consent to an agreement certificate duly signed by the agreement officer of the mentioned entity as well as the permitted legislator of the agent to the exchange under one month of every mid of the fiscal year.
Procedure of changing or appointing share transfer agents
To exchange or appoint a fresh Register and Transfer Agent, the mentioned entity has to enter into a tripartite concurrence through the current share transfer agent, entity, along with the new share transfer agent.
In case the entity is charging RTAs or assigning a fresh one then they have to notify stock exchange (s) under seven days afterward entering into the granting the same.
The above-mentioned agreement will be marked in the consequent meeting of the board of directors.
