Golden Gate Bridge

Managing Stock
Transfer Costs
Responsibly
Since 2006

Recent News

Fall 2026

🎵Where have all the gadflies gone?🎵

You know who we mean.  The typically older stockholders owning only a modest number of shares, with lots of time on their hands because, besides being older, they were usually retired.  And their passion was to attend annual stockholder meetings and torture executive management with as many tough questions as they could get away with – the questions frequently being totally inappropriate, if not insulting.
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Summer 2026

Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) to Acquire EQ

Bullish’s planned acquisition of EQ is the most significant development in the U.S. stock transfer industry since 2021. That year, EQ—then the second-largest provider, after acquiring Wells Fargo’s stock transfer business three years earlier—was sold to Siris Capital Group. Around the same time, American Stock Transfer (AST), then ranked third, was also sold to Siris. The two businesses were later combined under the EQ name.
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Testimonials

Shareholder Service Solutions, Inc.

Andrew Wilcox's experience in the transfer agent space was invaluable as we undertook a thorough review of our contract for stock transfer services.  His expertise resulted in a substantial cost savings for us annually.  We highly recommend his services! ~ Gay L. Wolf, Manager, Stockholder Relations, The Hershey Company

Helpful Hint

To our friends in stock transfer service Sales

We humbly offer these suggestions: 1) Don’t criticize your competition. There is no major transfer agent left in the stock transfer industry which isn’t quite good, and nobody likes a “basher”; 2)...
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Term of the Month

Adverse Claims

These are situations where a party claims that it, rather than the current owner of a security (like a stock) on the books of the recordkeeper – transfer agent, broker or bank – has a superior right of ownership in the stock.  The claim must officially be in writing, and when received it requires that the recordkeeper put a “stop transfer” on those shares until the claim is sorted out.  These can be somewhat tedious affairs, involving multiple “notifications,” for which recordkeepers/transfer agents charge the issuer extra fees that, while noticeable, are typically quite reasonable.

Quote of the Quarter

"There is no right way to do the wrong thing." ~ Unknown