Broadridge Financial Solutions said Monday it plans to provide shareholder voting and stock-tokenization services for the New York Stock Exchange’s proposed digital venue, linking investor governance with the trading of tokenized equities.
The company said its governance system would connect tokenized securities with meeting agendas, voting rules and verifiable results. It would distribute proxy materials and authenticate digital wallets against verified voting entitlements. Shareholders could take part through supported wallets, broker interfaces or Broadridge’s ProxyVote platform.
Broadridge also said a separate transfer-agency service would let NYSE-listed companies tokenize shares for trading on the venue. The announcement named no initial issuer or blockchain and set no timetable for the service.
Broadridge said issuers would gain another option for putting equities on-chain, while investors could use the governance tools to participate in shareholder votes. The announcement did not state fees or how service costs would be allocated.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the NYSE’s parent, announced Jan. 19 that it was developing the venue and would seek regulatory approvals. ICE described plans for round-the-clock trading, fractional-share trading, immediate settlement and stablecoin funding. It said the venue would support both tokens interchangeable with traditionally issued shares and securities issued in digital form.
Broadridge had described a separate use of its on-chain governance platform in April, when it said Galaxy planned to use it for a May annual meeting and shareholder vote. The announcement described proxy voting recorded on Broadridge’s Avalanche-based Layer 1 and distributed across multiple blockchains.
A separate NYSE filing concerns tokenized trading through the Depository Trust Company’s pilot for securities eligible for that program. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published an immediate-effectiveness notice for the filing on April 17. It covers a framework in the existing market structure and does not approve ICE’s separate digital venue.
Broadridge did not give a launch date for its services, and ICE said the venue requires regulatory approval. Neither announcement named a date for a regulatory decision.
