American Registrar & Transfer Co. is a transfer agent firm based in Salt Lake City, UT that american registrar & transfer co. (artco) is a salt lake city, utah stock and bond transfer agent handling share issuance, transfers, and recordkeeping for small and microcap issuers. the firm has been registered with the sec as a transfer agent since march 2002 and was incorporated in utah in 1974. in may 2016 the sec entered a settled cease-and-desist order censuring the company and ordering it to pay a 25,000 dollar penalty in connection with unregistered share transfers for a microcap client. multiple business directories list the company as out of business, and its primary web domain no longer resolves to an active company site. They serve clients in US. American Registrar & Transfer Co. is listed on The Token Playbook's vetted provider registry at thetokenplaybook.com/registry/american-registrar-transfer-co.