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Broadridge to add voting to NYSE tokenised securities platform

Writer: Shawn Jhanji
Shawn Jhanji
6 days ago
3 min read

Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced that it will bring on-chain shareholder voting and digital transfer agency services to the NYSE tokenised securities platform.

The services launch only after regulatory approval, and no launch date has been given. For founders, the part to watch is who keeps the shareholder register.


A futuristic illustration of the New York Stock Exchange featuring a giant neon-lit Charging Bull, a robotic hand placing a digital ballot into a blockchain voting system, and vibrant connected networks. Broadridge and NYSE branding highlight the introduction of on-chain shareholder voting, digital transfer agency services and tokenised securities.

What Broadridge adds to the NYSE tokenised securities platform

The announcement covers two services. The first is governance: the New York Stock Exchange will use Broadridge’s governance smart contracts, which are pieces of code that record rules on a blockchain, to link tokenised securities to meeting agendas, voting rules and verifiable results. The second is digital transfer agency, which lets issuers listed on the NYSE tokenise their stock for trading on the platform.


A transfer agent keeps the official record of who owns a company’s shares and processes changes of ownership. Broadridge says its service combines digital and traditional transfer agency with proxy voting, so an issuer can run both from one provider. Proxy voting is the process of sending shareholders meeting materials and collecting their votes.


How on-chain shareholder voting would work

Shareholders would take part through supported wallets, broker interfaces or ProxyVote, Broadridge’s existing voting service. Proxy materials would be distributed digitally, and a wallet would be authenticated against a verified voting entitlement. The aim is to tie a token in a wallet to a verified right to vote.


Tim Gokey, chief executive of Broadridge, says the company is building the governance layer for tokenised equities. Lynn Martin, president of NYSE Group, says tokenisation could change how issuers interact with their shareholders, and that the transfer agency link supports the NYSE’s aim of connecting tokenised trading, clearing and governance.


Broadridge is itself listed on the NYSE under the ticker BR. It says its Distributed Ledger Repo service, which settles tokenised real assets, tokenises more than 360 billion dollars a day. That figure is the company’s own claim and has not been independently checked.


Where digital transfer agency fits among the NYSE’s partners

Broadridge is not the first transfer agent named for the NYSE’s tokenised plans. On 31 August 2026, Intercontinental Exchange, the NYSE’s parent company, agreed to invest in tZero, which is expected to become an approved digital transfer agent on the platform, subject to regulatory, technology and operational approval. The detail is in the archive’s coverage of ICE’s agreement with tZero. This latest announcement adds another named route, from a firm that already sends voting materials to shareholders at scale.


The practical reading is that the NYSE is assembling several providers for the same plumbing rather than choosing one. For issuers, the choice of transfer agent decides who holds the register and who runs the vote, so the order in which providers win approval will shape the early market. That is a view, not a statement from any party.


The voting problem is not new. Securitize’s chief executive has argued that public companies have lost track of their own shareholders, and an on-chain register is one proposed fix. The announcement also lands while US tokenisation infrastructure is being built in layers, including the SEC’s framework for tokenised stock trading and DTCC’s tokenisation service.


What the NYSE and Broadridge have not said

No launch date has been given and the announcement does not name any regulator or approval conditions and it says nothing about other operating details of the NYSE platform beyond governance and transfer agency.


For a UK founder, the lesson sits one step away from this US platform. A tokenised share only behaves like a share if its holder can be told about a meeting, can vote and can be counted. Founders weighing any tokenised raise, in the UK or elsewhere, should ask the platform who keeps the register and how a vote is run before asking about price.


This is general information, not legal, tax or investment advice.


Key takeaways

  • Broadridge announced on 2 November 2026 that it will add on-chain shareholder voting and digital transfer agency to the NYSE tokenised securities platform, subject to regulatory approval.

  • The NYSE will use Broadridge’s governance smart contracts to link tokenised securities to meeting agendas, voting rules and verifiable results, with voting through supported wallets, broker interfaces or ProxyVote.

  • Digital transfer agency lets NYSE-listed issuers tokenise their stock for trading on the platform, alongside the role expected for tZero, announced on 31 August 2026.

  • No launch date, regulator or approval conditions have been announced.


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