NYSE taps Broadridge to enable shareholder voting on blockchain

The proxy voting giant joins Securitize and tZERO as the exchange builds out its planned tokenized stock platform The New York Stock Exchange wants to put stocks on a blockchain. It has now hired the company that already handles the paperwork for shareholder voting. Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR) will provide onchain governance and digital transfer agency services for the NYSE’s planned tokenized securities platform. The company announced the arrangement on Monday, November 2, 2026. It is a quiet but meaningful addition to a project that still needs regulators to sign off. What Broadridge is actually building Under the new arrangement, Broadridge will help public companies manage shareholder records, communications and voting as their shares move onto blockchain rails. Its contribution includes smart contracts that enforce governance rules, proxy voting systems, and tools for authenticating digital wallets. Smart contracts are self-executing code on a blockchain. Here, they would bake a company’s voting rules directly into the software, so the rulebook and the ballot box live in the same place. Broadridge will also keep doing its traditional transfer agency work. That service ...