We’re excited to announce that through our partnership with Broadridge Financial Solutions, we’re bringing institutional-grade shareholder governance capabilities to holders of tokenized equities. By integrating Broadridge’s governance infrastructure across our network of broker partners, shareholders holding tokenized equities through supported brokerage relationships will be able to access proxy voting, investor communications, regulatory disclosures, and voting entitlement reconciliation through Broadridge's ProxyVote.com platform.
Through proxy voting, eligible shareholders of supported tokenized equities can weigh in on key corporate decisions, from board elections and executive compensation to mergers and other material matters. Shareholder governance capabilities such as proxy voting are being integrated into supported tokenized equity offerings through this partnership.
Broadridge will also provide integrated secure messaging, investor communications, and proxy functionality directly into digital asset infrastructure, enabling investors to receive materials, notifications, and voting access within the platforms where tokenized assets are held and managed.
"For tokenized securities to reach their full potential, voting and governance must scale with them," said Doug DeSchutter, President, Investor Communications Solutions at Broadridge. "With Alpaca, we are extending our market-leading proxy voting and investor communications capabilities to tokenized equities through the underlying asset, helping ensure investors can access trusted governance tools and issuer information regardless of whether assets are structured or owned through traditional or tokenized models."
As the leading provider of custody for the underlying securities backing tokenized US equities and ETFs, custodying approximately 94% of tokenized US equities and ETFs for partners like Anchored Finance, Binance, Bitget, Dinari, Ondo Global Markets, xStocks (by Kraken), and more, Alpaca plays a central role in connecting tokenized markets with the protections and operational standards investors expect from traditional capital markets.
"Enabling shareholder governance and proxy voting is a key step in powering adoption of tokenized equities," said Yoshi Yokokawa, CEO of Alpaca. "Through our partnership with Broadridge, we’re combining Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure supporting tokenized equities with trusted governance capabilities, helping our partners build tokenized investment products with the accuracy, auditability, regulatory compliance, and investor transparency expected in traditional markets.”
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