Corporate actions

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Broadridge proxy-voting platform goes live in Switzerland

As part of the ongoing worldwide rollout of its innovation program to promote and enable the highest standards of corporate governance in local and global markets, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) today announced the live operational availability of its “golden copy” event sourcing and proxy vote execution service for custodians and local agents in Switzerland.

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SIX survey: Better quality data required to automate corporate actions

There is a pressing industry need for automated corporate actions solutions rooted in high quality corporate actions data and technology infrastructure, according to a survey by SIX conducted among leading global asset managers, wealth managers, custodians, clearing houses and investment banks.

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Westpac to pay $87 million to customers over failed corporate action notifications

Westpac has committed to remediating customers whose financial advisers may have failed to notify them of corporate actions between 2005 and 2019.

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ASX launches real-time corporate actions service

ASX has successfully completed and launched its real-time corporate actions straight-through processing (STP) service, which enables the processing and delivery of critical information – everything from dividends to entitlement offers – within seconds of announcement using ISO 20022 global standard messaging.

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Deutsche Bank goes live with Proxymity digital proxy voting

Deutsche Bank announced today that its connection with Proxymity, the digital investor communications platform it invested in in 2020, is now live and servicing clients.

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Client due diligence fintech MYCDD launches in Jersey

A new fintech business, MYCDD, has been formally launched in Jersey with an objective to revolutionise how international financial services and other firms manage their ongoing client due diligence requirements.

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Pirum releases corporate actions automation tool

COACSConnect - Pirum Systems launches a fully comprehensive solution for Corporate Actions processing as part of its “Future Tech” initiative.

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SmartStream hires Neil Sheppard to lead the growth of its corporate actions business

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider, today announce the appointment of Neil Sheppard as Global Head of Business Development for TLM Corporate Actions solutions and services.

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Cecabank chooses Broadridge for automated proxy voting

To broaden its services related to new mandatory obligations under the updated Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II) Cecabank S.A., one of the largest global custodian banks in Spain, has selected Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, to provide them with Broadridge’s leading global proxy voting solution.

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New AI platform provides proxy voting data from Broadridge

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader, has launched Broadridge Proxy Policies & Insights (PPI) Data, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive platform providing an open data-feed of proxy voting data and analytics.

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Broadridge collaborates with Slib on cross-border proxy voting for the French market

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, has announced its collaboration with SLIB, a leading-edge software vendor in electronic voting and security services based in France, to offer a joint, cross-border proxy voting solution for Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II) compliance, covering European shareholder meetings.

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DTCC preps service to simplify corporate actions claim processing

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that its Depository Trust Corporation (DTC) subsidiary has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a proposal to launch ClaimConnect, a new DTC service that will centralize and automate cash claim processing across the entire lifecycle of a corporate action claim.

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SIX survey reveals industry need for corporate actions automation

There is a great industry need for automated corporate actions solutions, according to a survey by SIX conducted among leading global asset managers, wealth managers, custodians, clearing houses and investment banks.

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SIX partners Crux Informatics

SIX, the Swiss financial data expert, announces today its partnership with Crux Informatics to provide a state-of-the-art managed market data solution which removes unnecessary implementation and management pressure for buy-side companies.

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AxiomSL joins Temenos Marketplace

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announces that AxiomSL, the industry’s leading provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, has joined Temenos MarketPlace. Temenos MarketPlace is Temenos’ platform for connecting banks with the best in complementary fintech solutions. With the addition of this new solution, Temenos T24 Transact clients will now have access to a complementary solution to drive efficiencies for their global risk and regulatory reporting programs.

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Signavio launches process mining solution for Aussie banks

Signavio’s process mining capabilities model, analyse and improve inefficient operations, allowing Banking organisations to manage processes with a customer centric approach

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Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) picks Torstone post-trade processing platform

Torstone Technology, a leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announces that Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. has selected its award-winning post-trade processing platform, Inferno, to replace the firm’s existing third party outsourced platform and service.

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Deposit Solutions partners with Close Brothers to collect from Switzerland

Deposit Solutions, open banking pioneer and leading international platform for savings deposits, partners with Close Brothers Limited to offer savings deposit products on its Swiss direct B2C channel Savedo. The cooperation with Deposit Solutions enables Close Brothers to collect euro retail deposits from a non-EU savings market without having to set up and maintain their own retail infrastructure.

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CIB Limited awarded banking licence

CIB Limited, part of the Capital International Group, an Isle of Man headquartered company has been awarded a provisional class 1(2) banking licence. The licence is the first class 1(2) to be issued on the Isle of Man under the Alternative Banking Regime.

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Chinsay facilitates first-ever paperless trade for iron ore

Cargill and Rio Tinto in collaboration with Chinsay, Voltron, essDOCS, R3 Corda, HSBC, and BNP Paribas reduce contract issuance time by almost 98%.