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National coverage, local expertise
At Computershare, our deal team can help you administer your municipal bond issuance. With experts in a wide variety of municipal and housing debt offerings, our team provides national coverage backed by local expertise.
We offer:
- Indenture services for fixed-rate and variable-rate bond issuances
- Paying agent and registrar services
- Escrow services
- Online reporting and electronic statements
Most importantly, our team will work closely with your deal team to develop control and security procedures to mitigate risk for your transactions.
Bond Trustee Services
Trustee services for the public finance market
Since 1934, we have worked with public finance clients across the U.S. to help them achieve their financial goals. We can act as:
- Trustee
- Successor trustee
- Master trustee
- Paying agent and registrar
- Fiscal agent
- Tender agent
- Escrow agent
- Dissemination and disclosure agent
- Depository
- Custodian
- Disbursing agent
We have expertise in the following types of bonds:
- Education
- Environmental
- General obligation
- Healthcare and hospitals
- Senior living and elder healthcare
- Housing
- Industrial development
- Public facilities
- Special purpose
- State revolving funds
- Transportation
- Utilities
Computershare does not provide legal or tax accounting services for its customers. Customers should always consult their own professional tax and legal advisors in connection with any effort to qualify a particular transaction for favorable treatment under applicable tax laws and regulations.
Housing Finance Services
Computershare offers trustee services for state and local housing agencies issuing tax-exempt, taxable, and privately placed bonds.
We provide online access to your trust accounts, and you can receive daily or monthly electronic extracts of trust data to download into your internal accounting system.
Our team
Your account will be administered by a dedicated team of professionals experienced in housing-related bond issues. Our team administers a variety of transactions, including:
- Successor trustee appointments
- State and local agency bond issuances
- Single-family and multifamily structures
- Military housing structures
- Variable rate and fixed rate structures
- HFA initiative: NIBP and TCLP structures
Our experience
We administer more than 3,100 housing-related transactions and serve as trustee for 21 state housing agencies. We are an active affiliate member in the National Council of State Housing Agencies and the National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies.
Our services
We offer a full complement of corporate trust services for your bond issue including: FHA/VA, FNMA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Freddie Mac securitized, SWAPS, recycling note programs, second mortgage bonds, draw-down programs, and credit-enhanced structures.
Our clients
We serve state and local housing finance agencies that issue tax-exempt and taxable bonds for the purpose of financing and developing both single-family and multifamily mortgage loans and projects.
Computershare does not provide legal or tax accounting services for its customers. Customers should always consult their own professional tax and legal advisors in connection with any effort to qualify a particular transaction for favorable treatment under applicable tax laws and regulations.
Additional information
Get information about your registered bonds or contact us at bondholdercommunications@computershare.com or 1-800-344-5128. Our mailing address is: Computershare Corporate Trust, 1505 Energy Park Drive, St Paul, MN 55108.
Why Computershare?
Computershare Corporate Trust is an industry leader with decades of experience as a provider of trustee and sophisticated agency services for private and public companies, investment bankers, asset managers as well as governments and institutions.
Wells Fargo CTS is now Computershare Corporate Trust
We offer a wide range of services that fulfill our clients’ unique and emerging needs in corporate and structured finance, debt issuance and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
With the acquisition of Wells Fargo CTS in November 2021, Computershare Corporate Trust is among the top providers in the US ranking #1 in CMBS, CRE CLO and top 3 in RMBS, CLO, ABS and Investment Grade, Municipal and Convertible Debt. Our team of more than 2,000 employees continues our commitment to delivering the highest standards of service and value to our entire client base.