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Transfer Agent

German: Registerführer

The party responsible for maintaining the register of holders and executing transfers; in tokenized structures this role is regulated separately in several jurisdictions.

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Readers asking who legally keeps the register when a smart contract does the bookkeeping, and whether a licence is required.

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Registerführer Die Stelle, die das Verzeichnis der Inhaber führt und Übertragungen ausführt; bei tokenisierten Strukturen ist diese Rolle in mehreren Rechtsordnungen gesondert reguliert.

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