In dictionaries:
Message transfer agent
Routes and delivers email messages.
mail transfer agent
Software routing and delivering email.
Stock transfer agent
A stock transfer agent, transfer agent, share registry or transfer agency is an entity, usually a third-party firm unrelated to security transactions, that manages the change in ownership of company stock or investment fund shares, maintains a register of ownership and acts as paying agent for the payment of dividends and other distributions to investors.
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