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Financial Review: A fintech spun out of Citi’s custodian banking arm says it has already set up a platform to bring much-needed transparency and speed to proxy voting, an area of the market that the ASX’s troubled distributed ledger technology CHESS replacement was meant to fix. Last Wednesday, ASX announced... read more →

Happy birthday to us! Two years ago in April 2020 we announced that, after having secured a first round of strategic investment, we had spun out from Citi’s D10X incubator programme and created Proxymity Ltd supported by a global, industry-led consortium, raising over $20 m in funding. Two years on,... read more →

Proxymity's COO and co-founder, Jonathan Smalley, joins Global Custodian to discuss the digital proxy voting platform’s story of growth, achievements and aspirations for the future.

Proxymity held two webinars in February 2022 for Issuers about the upcoming AGM season, Kirsty Anne Jasper joined the call and listened to the panel discussions. **** ​Time has worked in unusual ways over the past two years, with many things appearing to have stagnated, whilst simultaneously vast alterations to... read more →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →