company registrar

company registrar

the officer of a JOINT-STOCK COMPANY who is responsible for maintaining an up-to-date SHARE REGISTER and for issuing new SHARE CERTIFICATES and cancelling old share certificates as shares are bought and sold on the STOCK MARKET.

Many companies, however, have chosen to sub-contract these tasks to specialist institutions, often departments of commercial banks.

The role of the company registrar identified above should not be confused with that of the role of the government's REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES, who is responsible for supervising all joint-stock companies.

Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson

company registrar

the officer of a JOINT-STOCK COMPANY who is responsible for maintaining an up-to-date SHARE REGISTER and for issuing new SHARE CERTIFICATES and cancelling old share certificates as shares are bought and sold on the STOCK EXCHANGE. Many companies, however, have chosen to subcontract these tasks to specialist institutions, often departments of commercial banks.

The role of the company registrar identified above should not be confused with that of the role of the government's REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES, who is responsible for supervising all joint-stock companies.

Collins Dictionary of Economics, 4th ed. © C. Pass, B. Lowes, L. Davies 2005