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Aug 24

Digital Proxy in Australia: Promoting Collaborative Solutions Through Connectivity

Australia’s meeting season runs from August to October, and this year has seen the local ecosystem led by custodians, registrars, CSD and industry groups, more ready than ever before to facilitate proactive engagement between issuers and institutional investors, through enhanced connectivity and collaboration. We examine the growing benefits brought... read more →

Jun 10

SRD II After 9 Months: Navigating the Shareholder Disclosure Landscape

In 2020, the Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II) was introduced across European Union member states. While implementation has presented challenges, the benefits for issuers, intermediaries and shareholders have already been apparent through the 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) season. Shareholder participation has become a hot topic in recent... read more →

May 07

Proximus 2021 AGM: A Case Study

On April 21st, Proximus, Belgium’s leading mobile telecommunications company welcomed attendees from all over the world to their virtual 2021 Annual General Meeting, via the new LumiAGM platform. LumiAGM launched in Belgium earlier this year, extending the market leading Lumi platform beyond the live meeting to streamline the end-to-end AGM... read more →

Apr 23

A New Era for Proxy Voting in Ireland

Voting has been a hot topic of conversation for many of us in recent times. As industry figures in Ireland gathered for a webinar to highlight proxy voting changes, the winner of the US election was still unclear - with contentious mud-slinging and claims of voter rigging being the order... read more →

Mar 22

Irish Market CSD Transition Brings Upside in Real-Time Proxy Voting With Proxymity

LONDON, UK - Brexit's impact on Ireland has triggered a migration of the Irish securities settlement system from Euroclear UK and Ireland's CREST to Euroclear Bank. Under this new regime, there will be an increased level of intermediation, leading to reduced transparency and the potential to create delays in communications... read more →

Sep 02

Proxymity “Shareholder ID” shareholder disclosure solution launches ahead of SRD II implementation deadline

• Digital platform enables end-to-end compliance with new EU regulation • Eases the compliance burden for CSDs, brokers, custodians and other intermediaries • State Street (NYSE: STT) and Citi (NYSE: CITI) have already signed on as customers London, UK (September 1, 2020) – Proxymity, the digital investor communications platform announced... read more →

Jun 04

Proxymity Joins the 4th Cohort of Allen and Overy’s Tech Innovation Space – Fuse

Proxymity is proud to announce that it has joined Cohort 4 of Fuse. Fuse is the tech innovation space for Magic circle law firm Allen & Overy, which has invited FinTech companies to be part of the cohort for the first time after has primarily focused on LegalTech developments. Cohort... read more →

May 05

Proxymity launches consortium of financial industry leaders and raises $20.5 million in strategic round to become its own entity

Proxymity welcomes eight investors, including BNY Mellon, Citi, Clearstream, Computershare, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, and State Street. Proxymity, developed by Citi, to become an independent entity based in London. Proxymity to leverage new capital to scale the platform and team, build out its investor communications platform, and expand its... read more →

Feb 20

Australian companies trial digital AGM voting platform

We were featured in an article in IR Magazine on 20th February, 2020 entitled "Australian companies trial digital AGM voting platform". They talked about the full roll out of Proxymity's Proxy Voting Platform into the Australian market . A snippet of the article is given below, however, If you wish... read more →

Nov 18

Lumi and Proxymity Collaborate in Successful Pilot In Belgium

This article was originally posted on the Lumi website on 18th November 2019 and has been recreated below in full. Lumi has announced the successful completion of the Elia Group Extraordinary General Meeting on November 8th 2019 as a pilot borne out of a collaboration with themselves and the Citi developed... read more →

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