Automated Proxy Vote Aggregation

Eliminate the manual, paper-based reconciliation nightmare. Automated vote collection and tallying reduces administrative overhead by up to 70%.

• Real-world impact: A major asset manager cut proxy processing time from weeks to hours, reallocating 3 FTEs to higher-value analysis.
• Eliminate reconciliation errors inherent in fax, email, and spreadsheet-based systems, ensuring vote intent is perfectly captured.

Monetize your voting power through secure, programmable vote lending. Safely generate yield by participating in decentralized governance markets without transferring underlying asset custody.

• Example: Institutional lenders can earn basis points on idle voting rights during non-contested meetings, creating a pure incremental income stream.
• Programmable rules ensure votes are only cast according to pre-defined, compliant policies, mitigating counterparty risk.

Move from post-meeting reports to live voting dashboards. See aggregated positions and trends across your entire book in real-time, enabling dynamic strategy adjustments.

• Strategic advantage: Identify contentious votes early and mobilize engagement campaigns or adjust lending programs proactively.
• Data integrity: Source data is tamper-proof, ensuring business intelligence and ESG reporting are built on a verified foundation.

Navigate the complex web of global custodians and sub-custodians with a single, standardized protocol. Blockchain acts as a universal settlement layer, collapsing multi-day communication chains into minutes.

• The pain point: A European pension fund voting on a Japanese stock may rely on 4+ intermediaries, each adding cost, delay, and opacity.
• The fix: Direct, cryptographically-secure instruction routing eliminates intermediaries, reducing fails and ensuring votes arrive before deadlines.

Position your operations for the next wave of finance. As equities, funds, and bonds migrate to blockchain rails (tokenization), your proxy infrastructure will be natively compatible.

• Avoid costly re-engineering: Early adopters gain a first-mover advantage in markets for tokenized Treasuries, private equity, and funds.
• Seamless integration: The same system that aggregates votes for traditional securities can handle programmable, on-chain assets, protecting your technology investment.

Traditional proxy voting requires manual reconciliation of votes across custodians, asset managers, and voting agents—a process prone to delays and errors. Blockchain creates a single source of truth, automating vote aggregation and eliminating costly reconciliation. Example: A European pension fund reduced its post-meeting reconciliation workload by 90% and cut reporting errors to near zero.

Regulators demand immutable proof of voting instructions and execution. A blockchain-based system provides a tamper-proof, timestamped ledger of every vote, from instruction to final tally. This creates an unbreakable audit trail, simplifying regulatory reporting and audits. Use Case: Asset managers use this to demonstrate fiduciary duty and compliance with ESG voting policies to clients and regulators instantly.

Proxy voting relies on a chain of intermediaries, each adding layers of fees and complexity. By automating aggregation on a shared ledger, you can streamline the voting pipeline, reducing dependency on multiple agents. ROI Driver: One global bank's pilot projected a 30% reduction in annual proxy processing costs by cutting intermediary messaging and manual handling fees.

Modern investment strategies involve rapid portfolio changes, making it hard to ensure votes are cast correctly. Blockchain enables real-time vote synchronization with the book of record. Key Benefit: Fund managers can execute last-minute voting decisions on merged or acquired positions with confidence, knowing the aggregated vote will be accurate and timely, protecting shareholder value.

A top-10 asset manager piloted blockchain proxy aggregation to strengthen its ESG voting. The Challenge: Manually tracking and reporting on thousands of ESG-specific votes across dozens of custodians was inefficient. The Blockchain Fix: All ESG voting instructions and confirmations were logged on-chain. Outcome: Achieved real-time visibility into voting execution, enhanced reporting to ESG-conscious clients, and reduced operational risk.

The industry is moving towards standards like ISO 20022 for corporate actions. Blockchain-based aggregation is the ideal execution layer for this standard, solving the cross-jurisdictional fragmentation that plagues global investors. Strategic Advantage: Early adopters position themselves to vote seamlessly in any market, gaining a competitive edge in global asset stewardship and reducing legal/operational friction.