OCC 95-53
Subject:  Registered Transfer Agent          Description: Adoption of Revised Form TA-1 

TO:  Chief Executive Officers of Banks Registered as Securities
     Transfer Agents,  Department and Division Heads, and all
     Examining Personnel


The OCC has adopted a revised Form TA-1 for registration of
national bank transfer agents.  Currently registered transfer
agents are not required to submit a new registration form.  
However, the revised form must be used when an existing
registration is amended. Only filings on the revised form will be
valid.

Attached is a copy of the revised TA-1 form and instructions for
its use.  The revision was developed by an interagency working
group from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Securities and Exchange
Commission, and the OCC.   Among other changes, the new form: (1)
requires that the registrant's headquarters location be reported,
(2) clarifies that only the location of the registrant -- not the
addresses of servicers -- be reported, and (3) clarifies that
transfer agent registration numbers, rather than the Financial
Industry Number Standard (FINS) number, should be reported for
private label servicers and named transfer agents.

Questions on the revised form may be directed to Compliance
Management at (202) 874-4447.



                                
Stephen M. Cross
Deputy Comptroller
   for Compliance Management


Attachment: (Attachment Unavailable Electronically)
Date: October 5, 1995