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If Your Transfer Agent Needs a Spreadsheet, You Don’t Have a System of Record

A spreadsheet can organize work. It should never be the control system for a public company’s ownership records.

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A Better Corporate Action Starts with the Record Date

A practical issuer checklist for aligning eligibility rules, entitlements, funding, communications, and reconciliation before processing begins.

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Financial Printing: A $5 Billion Industry Stuck in 1985

Every year, public companies spend billions printing and distributing regulated documents much the same way they did forty years ago. Here is why the industry is overdue for disruption.

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The Hidden Cost of Fragmented Capital Markets Operations

The largest operating costs often sit between systems, vendors, and teams—not inside any one of them.

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From Closing Table to Cap Table: What Happens After a Financing

The operational steps that turn a signed financing into accurate, reconciled ownership records and investor statements.

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The Latest Trends in Bitcoin Treasury Strategies

Bitcoin on the balance sheet has moved from radical experiment to a legitimate strategic consideration for CFOs across industries.

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What Are Medallion Guarantees—and Are They Still Required?

What a medallion guarantee verifies, when it is still necessary, and how it fits into modern securities transfers.

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The Role of a Transfer Agent, Trustee, and Asset Manager in a SPAC IPO

Behind every SPAC are three critical service providers that most investors never see. Each plays a distinct and essential role.

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Today’s Paperwork Crisis: The Meme Stock Frenzy

The GameStop squeeze did more than disrupt markets. It exposed how fragile the back-office infrastructure of American capital markets had become.

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Transfer Agent 101

Most management teams do not know when or why they need a transfer agent. Here is the essential role transfer agents play in making share ownership work.

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