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One Platform for both Tokenised and Traditional Securities Is Now Live!

  • Writer: Shawn Jhanji
    Shawn Jhanji
  • 3 days ago
  • 3 min read
Broadridge, the post-trade fintech whose daily settled volume runs into the trillions, announced on 12 May 2026 that it is closing that gap. The firm has extended the tokenisation engine underlying its Distributed Ledger Repo platform to cover equities, funds, alternative investments, and money market instruments, all within the same integrated processing environment it uses for conventional securities today. The announcement represents one of the most significant pieces of institutional tokenisation infrastructure released this year.

For the past three years, tokenised finance has had a structural problem: the infrastructure for digital assets and the infrastructure for traditional securities have lived in separate systems, requiring separate workflows, separate reconciliation, and separate governance. Broadridge, the post-trade fintech whose daily settled volume runs into the trillions, announced on 12 May 2026 that it is closing that gap.


The firm has extended the tokenisation engine underlying its Distributed Ledger Repo platform to cover equities, funds, alternative investments, and money market instruments, all within the same integrated processing environment it uses for conventional securities today. The announcement represents one of the most significant pieces of institutional tokenisation infrastructure released this year.


What Broadridge Has Built

Broadridge's Distributed Ledger Repo platform already settles a substantial share of the global repo market. In April 2026 alone, the platform processed $368 billion in average daily volume, a 268% increase year on year, bringing its monthly total to $7.7 trillion. That track record in fixed income gives Broadridge the credibility to extend the same engine into new asset classes.


The new integrated infrastructure does several things at once. It gives institutional firms a single tokenisation engine that handles tokenised and traditional securities through the same processing stack, meaning consistent workflows, controls, reconciliation, and reporting regardless of whether the underlying asset sits on a blockchain or in a conventional register.


It connects directly to major public and permissioned Layer 1 blockchain networks, including Canton and Ethereum-compatible chains, through a single integration point. For banks and asset managers that have been reluctant to build multiple integrations for different chains, this matters: one connection, multiple networks.


It also brings the full corporate actions and governance lifecycle into the tokenised environment. Dividend processing, mandatory and voluntary corporate actions, proxy voting, and on-chain governance for tokenised equities all flow through Broadridge's existing infrastructure rather than requiring parallel processes. Broadridge also confirmed this month that it is extending its proxy voting and disclosure solution to support all models of tokenised securities, including both permissioned and permissionless structures.


Why This Matters for Institutional Adoption

The main friction in institutional tokenisation has not been regulatory or technological in isolation. It has been operational: the cost of running dual systems, managing dual reconciliations, and explaining dual governance to risk committees. Broadridge's announcement directly addresses that friction.


When a firm can process tokenised equities and conventional equities through the same post-trade infrastructure, the marginal cost of adding tokenised exposure drops significantly. For asset managers looking at tokenised private equity or tokenised government bonds, the question has often been whether the operational overhead justifies the efficiency gain. A unified platform changes that calculation.


This is also relevant to the DTCC's October 2026 launch timeline. Broadridge and the DTCC are both deeply embedded in US post-trade infrastructure, and the development of complementary tokenisation capabilities from both organisations in the same quarter signals that the traditional financial system is not waiting for permission to move.


The UK and European Picture

Broadridge operates across the UK, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Its existing network spans more than 700 buy-side and sell-side clients globally. The extension of tokenisation capabilities across this network could be significant for UK-based asset managers and fund administrators who have been building tokenised fund infrastructure under the FCA's PS26/7 framework.


For UK founders building tokenisation platforms or seeking tokenised capital structures, the practical implication is straightforward: the institutional plumbing is being upgraded. The incumbents are not building separate, competing systems. They are integrating tokenised rails into the infrastructure they already run at scale.


Key Takeaways

  • Broadridge has extended its proven DLR tokenisation engine from fixed income to equities, funds, alternatives, and money markets in a single integrated platform.

  • The platform connects to major blockchain networks through one integration point, reducing the technical overhead for institutional adoption.

  • Broadridge's DLR settled $7.7 trillion in April 2026 alone, giving the tokenisation infrastructure real-world scale credentials.

  • Full corporate actions, proxy voting, and on-chain governance are included, removing a long-standing barrier to institutional adoption of tokenised equities.

  • The announcement complements the DTCC's October 2026 launch and signals that post-trade infrastructure is integrating tokenised rails at pace.


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