The current investor communications ecosystem is fragmented and relies heavily on manual and often paper based processes. This causes delays, errors and a complete lack of transparency.
A lot of money is spent on these inefficient systems, it is time for a change.
The current proxy voting system gives issuers no direct notification channel to investors, preventing effective communication and transparency, which in turn requires expensive research to interpret voting activity.
I’m an Issuer / Issuer agent
Total control of the meeting agenda delivered directly to your shareholders without distortion, interference and interpretation.
Transparency through the custodian chain all the way to the investor, eliminating the need to spend time and money deciphering the voting decision.
Real-time receipt of vote from investors as soon as they began voting, up to 13 days* prior to the meeting.
* In comparison to the incumbent ballot distribution process, based on our live production pilot covering General Meetings across 4 UK Issuers.
The current proxy voting system burdens intermediaries with lots of time-consuming data handling and manual confirmation, which only increases operational cost and risk.
I’m an Intermediary
A paperless, digital solution, eliminating the need for intermediary notification processing and message transition.
The industry’s most competitive deadlines with real-time delivery of information via the world’s first digital end-to-end voting platform.
Unrivaled transparency to the proxy voting process for clients, whether they are issuers or investors.
* In comparison to the incumbent ballot distribution process, based on our live production pilot covering General Meetings across 4 UK Issuers.
Under the current proxy voting system, investors experience extremely tight deadlines to research and make a decision on their investment; followed by uncertainty whether their voice has been heard.
I’m an Investor
Instant meeting notifications and real-time publication of agenda meeting directly to investor, up to 96 hours faster* than any existing process.
Artificial deadlines are replaced with market deadlines to vote, giving up to 5 more days* for investors to make critical decisions on investments.
True confirmation that each vote has been received and recorded as standard… the days of guessing are over.
* In comparison to the incumbent ballot distribution process, based on our live production pilot covering General Meetings across 4 UK Issuers.
Processing shareholder identification requests globally is becoming more difficult as existing processes will be stretched to comply with new EU regulation.
I’m an Intermediary
Automated responses to shareholder disclosure requests.
Full oversight, reporting and exception management for disclosure responses processed by Proxymity.