LATEST COMMENT LETTERS, NEWS & NOTICES

STA joined forces with several organizations to send a letter to California's Senate Judiciary Committee to opposed bill AB 1447 regarding unclaimed property. Read the letter here.

STA has joined a coalition of industry groups and businesses in signing a letter to the House Financial Services Committee, voicing support for the escheatment reform provisions included in the SAFER Act.

Read the letter here.

STA submitted a letter on July 1, 2026 to the SEC regarding the SEC Tokenization Framework. As providers of operational infrastructure that supports the U.S. securities markets, transfer agents are directly concerned with how tokenized securities are issued, recorded, transferred, and reconciled with an issuer’s shareholder records. STA urges the Commission to ensure that any innovation exemption or permanent regulatory framework distinguishes actual, issuer-authorized, natively issued tokenized securities from unaffiliated synthetic instruments and removes infrastructure impediments that would otherwise disadvantage genuine tokenized securities. Read the full letter here,

STA recently submitted a comment letter to the SEC regarding the DTC proposal to amend its Operations Arrangements. Full letter can be read here.

STA recently submitted a letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren responding to a letter she wrote to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators. Read here for more information.

Reminder: DTCC Cost Basis Reporting Service update goes live on March 27! 

Please see details in the DTCC notice here regarding changes to the CBRS Web Portal.

STA Unclaimed Property Conflicting Regulation Overview.pdf

STA & SSA have submitted the following letter to Florida in regards to House Bill 1221 on amending Florida's disposition of Unclaimed Property Act:

2026.2 STA-SSA Ltr re FL HB 1221 SB 1452.pdf