Broadridge Has Built the Single Infrastructure Layer for Tokenised and Traditional Securities. Here Is What That Unlocks.
- Shawn Jhanji
- May 21
- 3 min read
Tokenisation has, for the most part, been built in parallel to traditional financial infrastructure rather than on top of it. Separate systems, separate workflows, separate reconciliation. On 12 May 2026, Broadridge Financial Solutions announced an expansion of its tokenisation capabilities that directly addresses this structural gap.
What Broadridge Announced
Broadridge extended the core tokenisation engine behind its Distributed Ledger Repo solution, which currently processes more than $365 billion in daily volume, to support equities, funds, alternative investments and money market instruments within a single, consistent framework.
The practical effect: institutional firms can now operate tokenised and traditional assets on the same platform, with the same governance standards, the same operational controls, the same reconciliation processes and the same reporting framework.
This matters because the transition from traditional to tokenised securities is not a binary switch. Institutions will run both in parallel for years, perhaps decades. Until now, doing so required maintaining separate operational infrastructure, separate audit trails and separate compliance procedures. The Broadridge announcement removes that burden for firms using its platform.
The DLR Track Record
The Distributed Ledger Repo solution is not a pilot. It has been running live at scale, processing $365 billion or more in daily volume for institutional counterparties. Broadridge's decision to use this as the foundation for a broader tokenisation engine is significant: the underpinning technology has already been stress-tested at production volumes in a highly regulated context.
The repo market is one of the most operationally demanding environments in financial services, with intraday settlement, collateral mobility and legal precision requirements that exceed most other asset classes. If the tokenisation engine works there, it works everywhere.
Shareholder Rights Included
On 5 May 2026, Broadridge also extended its proxy voting and shareholder disclosure solution to support all models of tokenised securities. That means holders of tokenised equities using Broadridge infrastructure have the same shareholder rights and governance participation as holders of traditional securities, with no operational workaround required.
This is materially important for institutional adoption. One of the persistent objections to tokenised equity has been the uncertainty around whether tokenised holders could exercise the same rights as registered holders. Broadridge's solution provides a definitive answer for assets on its platform.
Blockchain Connectivity
The integrated platform connects to Canton Network, Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, giving institutional clients a single integration point across the distributed infrastructure landscape rather than requiring separate connections for each chain.
Canton is the network used by DTCC's tokenisation infrastructure. The combination of Canton, Ethereum and EVM connectivity means Broadridge's platform covers the majority of institutional tokenisation activity being built today.
What This Means for the Tokenisation Stack
For the tokenisation ecosystem, Broadridge's announcement represents a significant architectural development. When the post-trade infrastructure used by firms processing $15 trillion in daily assets has a native tokenisation layer, the argument that tokenised securities require bespoke operational investment diminishes significantly.
The operational argument against tokenisation, which has been legitimate and material for institutional adopters, becomes harder to make when the systems they already use can handle both. For platforms building in the UK and European markets, the Broadridge model provides a reference architecture for how unified tokenisation infrastructure should work.
Key Takeaways
Broadridge extended its tokenisation engine to cover equities, funds, alternative investments and money market instruments on a single platform alongside traditional securities.
Tokenised and traditional assets can now be processed with the same operational controls, governance and reporting infrastructure.
The underlying technology already processes more than $365 billion per day in Distributed Ledger Repo transactions.
Broadridge also extended proxy voting rights to all models of tokenised securities.
Platform connects to Canton Network, Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains from a single integration point.
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