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Fulfill Your Shareholder Rights Directive Obligations

The SRD will have an enduring impact on global corporate governance standards and processes. Broadridge can help you navigate this mandatory change.

The revised Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II), in effect since September 2020, dramatically impacted financial intermediaries who deal in European equities. Annual meeting, proxy materials, and shareholder disclosure information, need to be sent quickly and securely - with all requests, responses and authentications passed through multiple parties.

We can help. Our SRD II suite digitizes your compliance efforts with a shared industry solution that enables you to navigate complex regulations. Our proven, trusted and transparent solutions help you meet your new governance obligations in all EU markets and deliver a seamless and secure shareholder experience so you can comply with confidence.

By extending our world-class global proxy management offering and adding a new blockchain-based shareholder disclosure management service, we are uniquely positioned to help banks, custodians, brokers, CSDs and other intermediaries, both retail and institutional, meet their SRD II compliance obligations.

Talk to us today to find out more about our solution enhancements and innovations that support your responsibilities under the Directive, including:

  • Shareholder disclosure – our new shareholder disclosure service facilitates time-sensitive monitoring, request handling and response filing
  • Agenda distribution and voting – our solution supports the distribution of meeting agendas within stricter timeframes, daily votes reconciliation, and “without delay” vote processing
  • Automated, transparent, end-to-end processing – a configurable, secure and comprehensive proxy voting solution with related services for institutional and retail firms, that handles every step in the proxy management process
  • Vote confirmation – take advantage of increased efficiency for electronic confirmation of vote receipts and the post-meeting recording and counting of votes
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The revised Shareholder Rights Directive, in effect since September 2020, dramatically impacts financial intermediaries who deal in European equities. Annual general meeting and proxy materials, and shareholder disclosure information, must be sent quickly and securely—with all requests, responses and authentications passed through multiple parties.

Broadridge digitizes your compliance efforts with a shared industry solution that enables you to navigate complex regulations.

Our innovative solution for the Shareholder Rights Directive—"SRD II”—delivers complete coverage, connecting every market and intermediary—providing a single communication chain for all your retail and institutional proxy voting and disclosure requirements.

Meet your new governance obligations for SRD II, reduce risk and streamline workflows with a complete solution tailored to your needs. As the trusted industry leader, we enable billions of investor communications each year – helping you meet required deadlines in all EU markets.

Now you can deliver a seamless shareholder experience—taking advantage of the most advanced voting platforms, mobile apps and the latest technologies such as blockchain and cloud - while achieving unrivaled security, operational control and economies of scale.

Proven, trusted and transparent, our SRD Two solution transforms shareholder communications—so you can comply with confidence.

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