NYSE Taps Broadridge for Onchain Shareholder Voting
Broadridge will handle shareholder records, communications and onchain voting for the NYSE's planned tokenized stock platform, joining Securitize and tZERO. The venue still awaits regulatory approval.
The New York Stock Exchange wants stocks on a blockchain, and it has now signed up the company that already runs much of Wall Street's shareholder voting. Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR) will provide onchain governance and digital transfer agency services for the NYSE's planned tokenized securities platform, under an arrangement Broadridge announced on Monday, November 2, 2026.
The deal covers the unglamorous but essential plumbing of owning a stock: shareholder records, communications and voting. As public companies' shares move onto blockchain rails, Broadridge will help them manage all three.
The platform is not live. It still needs regulatory approval, and Broadridge's services are tied to that approval.
"Broadridge is building the governance layer for tokenized equities,"
Tim Gokey, Broadridge CEO
Broadridge's contribution includes smart contracts that enforce governance rules, proxy voting systems and tools for authenticating digital wallets. It will also keep running traditional transfer agency services for both tokenized shares and conventional equities. That second part matters more than it sounds: expect a long hybrid period, with some shareholders holding tokens and others holding regular shares. Token holders would vote through wallets, broker interfaces or Broadridge's ProxyVote platform.
Not Broadridge's first onchain vote
ProxyVote has already handled tokenized securities. In May 2026 it processed proxy voting for Galaxy Digital, with votes executed on an Avalanche-based layer-1 blockchain.
Scale is the other point. Broadridge serves over 10,000 public companies globally and settles over $15 trillion in securities trades daily. The distribution is already in place.
Another piece of the NYSE stack
Broadridge joins Securitize and tZERO as the NYSE assembles infrastructure for stocks onchain. The exchange first outlined its tokenized securities platform in January 2026, and in March Securitize was named initial digital transfer agent through a memorandum of understanding. The end goal is continuous trading of tokenized equities, including 24/7 operations, instant settlement and stablecoin funding of trades. We previously covered the NYSE's deal with Blockchain.com to bring tokenized U.S. stocks to 44 million accounts.
What it means
Traders fixate on the venue and the 24/7 headline. Governance is the less sexy half, but without clean records and voting, tokenized shares are just price exposure with extra steps. Bringing in the incumbent proxy voting provider gives the governance side of the NYSE build real credibility.
The risks are plain. Regulatory approval is the gate, and Broadridge's role depends on it. Nasdaq is also developing tokenized stock offerings, so the NYSE is not racing alone.
