Other Fees, Charges and Expenses. Each Fund shall be responsible for its portion (either based upon actual usage where such usage can be definitively determined or on an equitably allocated basis where each of the funds listed on Exhibit A to the Agreement enjoy the same benefits) of other fees, charges and expenses for the services provided for the benefit of the Funds and/or the shareholders of the Funds, including but not limited to the following: (a) All shareholder recordkeeping system fees, charges and expenses, including charges for the maintenance and/or storage of shareholder records, trading information, programming charges and other shareholder trading and lookup enhancements, including DST's TA 2000 system, FAN Web, Vision, as in existence on the date hereof, together with such changes as may be agreed to in writing by the Fund from time to time during the Term, (b) all fees, charges and expenses for typesetting, printing, processing, collating and mailing (including postage and/or courier charges) of documents, legally required to be delivered to shareholders, that the Transfer Agent is required to deliver hereunder or that have been requested by shareholders or by the Fund, (c) fees, charges and expenses related to the provision of customer services to shareholders in the Fund and/or the Intermediaries, including but not limited to phone line charges, datacom charges, facsimile line charges, (d) membership fees, per CUSIP fees, and costs and expenses charged by the National Securities Clearing Corporation with respect to trades placed and/or cleared through such systems, (e) per transaction fees, charges and expenses for wires, ACH transactions, check processing, and escheatment, (f) costs and expenses associated with printing, mailing, production and replacement of checkbooks for shareholders electing checkwriting services, (g) fees, charges and expenses incurred at the specific direction of the Funds or required by a regulatory organization and other expenses deemed to be properly payable by the Fund administrator's treasury department, (h) professional services fees, charges and expenses associated with the performance of the annual SOC-1 report of the Transfer Agent and such other audits, compliance checks and other professional services required by the Funds to be performed with respect to the Transfer Agent, and (i) fees, charges and expenses of shareholder servicing enhancements, enhancements specific to trading with a particular financial intermediary with the purpose of increasing assets in or promoting efficiency in the trading with a given Fund, systems automation costs and expenses that promote increases in shareholder servicing and/or processing efficiency or that cause a net reduction in overall fund expenses.
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Samples: Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Federated Global Allocation Fund), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Federated Index Trust), Transfer Agency and Service Agreement (Federated Short-Intermediate Duration Municipal Trust)