Broadridge to bring on-chain governance to NYSE's tokenized platform

Broadridge (NYSE: BR) will supply on-chain shareholder-voting infrastructure and digital transfer-agency services to the New York Stock Exchange’s planned tokenized-securities platform, contingent on regulatory approval. The arrangement links Broadridge’s governance smart contracts to meeting agendas, voting rules and verifiable results, so investors can exercise shareholder rights as ownership moves on-chain — authenticating through supported wallets, broker interfaces or the firm’s ProxyVote system, alongside distribution of proxy materials and wallet-based identity tied to verified voting entitlements.

For NYSE-listed companies weighing tokenization, the integration folds Broadridge’s digital and traditional transfer-agency services together with proxy voting into a single offering, regardless of how shares are traded or held. Broadridge frames the move as building “the governance layer for tokenized equities” so investors get the same institutional-grade protections whether ownership sits in a brokerage account or on-chain. “We’re also making it easier for issuers to participate by bringing our digital and traditional transfer agency services and proxy voting capabilities together in one solution — regardless of how shares are traded or where they are held,” said Broadridge CEO Tim Gokey.

The partnership also extends DLX, Broadridge’s broader tokenization platform, which already supports Distributed Ledger Repo — a service that, according to Broadridge, already settles more than $360 billion in tokenized real-world assets each day, making it the largest institutional platform of its kind. Broadridge’s wider technology processes more than 8 billion communications a year and supports an average of more than $18 trillion in daily trading across tokenized and traditional securities globally, through a workforce of about 16,000 associates across 28 countries.

Why it matters

As exchanges push tokenized trading toward launch, the harder problem is proving that on-chain ownership carries the same governance rights as a paper share — and Broadridge is positioning itself as the plumbing that makes that credible to regulators and issuers alike.