Broadridge Financial Solutions

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Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
Company type Public
Industry Financial technology
PredecessorBrokerage Services arm of ADP (founded 1962)
Founded2007;17 years ago (2007)
Headquarters
Lake Success, New York [1]
,
United States
Key people
Tim Gokey (CEO), Chris Perry (President), Richard J. Daly (Chairman)
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$6.507 billion (2024) [2]
Increase2.svg US$1.303 billion (2024) [2]
Increase2.svg US$0.698 billion (2024) [2]
Total assets Increase2.svg US$8.242 billion (2024) [2]
Total equity Decrease2.svg US$2.168 billion (2024) [2]
Number of employees
14,000 (2024 [2] )
Website broadridge.com

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. is a public corporate services and financial technology company. Headquartered in Lake Success, New York, [3] the company was founded in 2007 as a spin-off from Automatic Data Processing. [1] Broadridge supplies companies in the financial industry with financial documents such as proxy statements and annual reports, as well as shareholder communications solutions such as virtual annual meetings. [1] [4]

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Other products and services include financial software and infrastructure [5] for corporate governance, [6] proxy [5] and regulatory communications, and investor communications. [7] It also hosts trading platforms [8] and provides software and infrastructure [5] for asset [8] and wealth management. [5]

History

1962-2006

Broadridge was founded in 1962 [5] as ADP Brokerage Services Group, [9] a business unit [6] of the American payroll processing company Automatic Data Processing (ADP). [5] Operating as ADP's shareholder communications division, [10] : 27  [11] it initially served one client by processing an average of 300 trades per night. [9]

1970s legislation in the United States changed the industry by mandating two new processes for securities and their transfer: immobilization and dematerialization. These processes required physical stock certificates and other paper securities to be kept in bulk by intermediaries, with the sale and ownership of securities recorded through chains of transaction records instead of possession of paper certificates. These changes increased securities trading and led to a rapid rise in stock ownership, and also had the effect of putting intermediaries between companies and their shareholders. [10] : 1–2  Before the new laws, banks and brokers had typically maintained in-house proxy departments to manage the shareholder voting process. [11] The need for shareholders to vote by proxy through intermediaries, however, created a new industry to manage that voting process, [10] : 1–2, 48  which remained in place even after electronic certificates eliminated the need for intermediaries. [10] : 1–2  ADP Brokerage Services Group operated as one of those intermediaries, [9] and by the mid 1990s, Automatic Data Processing dominated the proxy voting and shareholder communications services industry. [10] : 48 

2007-2018

At the end of March, 2007, ADP spun-out the entirety of their shareholder communications activities, resulting in the formation of Broadridge Financial Solutions. [10] : 27  [11] [6] Operating as an independent public company, [5] Broadridge was headquartered in Lake Success, New York [3] with Rich Daly serving as CEO. [12] Broadridge facilitated its first virtual annual meeting, for Intel Corp, in 2009. [4] In 2010, the company processed about 350 billion shares for its clients. [13] : 2  Congress evaluated aspects of corporate governance, including shareholder communications and proxy voting, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. [14] : 1–2  In 2010 a report submitted to the House Committee on Financial Services by a coalition headed by Business Roundtable noted the near monopoly position of Broadridge in handling proxy voting. [14] : 249  Broadridge had retained its predominant position in the proxy processing market by 2013. [13] : 17 

In 2016, it facilitated virtual annual meetings for 154 companies, an increase of 71% from the year prior. [4] Also in 2016, Broadridge acquired Spence Johnson, an institutional financial flow data intelligence firm. [15] In the summer of 2016, Broadridge acquired the North America Customer Communications (NACC) unit of DST Systems, a Kansas City-based business services provider, which provided the company with addressing information for about 75% of all public company shareholders in the United States and Canada. [1] Later in 2016, Broadridge bought M&O Systems, a small Manhattan-based financial services company. [1] In 2017, the company had 10,000 employees. [16] Between 2007 and 2018, the company made over 30 acquisitions in total. [12] In a 2018 letter to the SEC, Broadridge stated its mailings reached 140 million investor accounts. [3] In 2018, UBS Group AG's Wealth Management Americas unit became the first large client to begin using Broadridge's new software platform for "front- and back-office tasks, like opening client accounts, trade routing and order management and asset servicing." [17]

2019-2024

On January 2, 2019, Tim Gokey succeeded Rich Daly as Chief Executive Officer. Daly became Executive Chairman of the Board. [9] In November 2019, Broadridge acquired ClearStructure Financial Technology, which provided portfolio management solutions for the private debt markets. [8] Broadridge acquired FundsLibrary, which specializes in fund document and data dissemination in Europe, in March 2020. It was combined with the Broadridge brand FundAssist and renamed Broadridge Fund Communication Solutions. [18] In 2021, it had assets of US$8.119 billion, equity of $1.809 billion, net income of $547 million, operating income of $678 million, and revenue of $4.993 billion. [19]

The company agreed in 2021 to acquire the Sweden-based Itiviti from Nordic Capital for $2.5 billion. [6] In 2021, Broadridge announced that RBC Wealth Management-U.S. would be its second client utilizing its new advisor technology platform for wealth management. [20] In September 2022, Cetera became the first company to use Broadridge's Wealth InFocus communications platform, which focused on communications related to wealth management. [21]

After Broadridge began testing the use of blockchain for proxy voting in 2018, [12] by 2023, companies such as UBS and Société Générale were using Broadridge's VMWare Blockchain distributed ledger software to facilitate repurchase agreements. [22] In 2023 Broadridge stated it had around 1,100 clients who were brokers, and that it provided proxy services for around 80% of outstanding shares in the United States. [7] In June 2023, LTX, a corporate bond trading platform owned by Broadridge, launched BondGPT, a chatbot focused on bonds and utilizing OpenAI's GPT-4. [23] Broadridge released its Sentry software, a loan portfolio management platform, in 2024, [24] at which point specific offerings included “new mutual funds, ETFs, managed accounts, app-based trading, and zero-commission trading." It had also enabled “pass-through voting,” allowing shareholders to do proxy votes directly rather than through an investment manager, [5] and a mobile app for proxy voting at annual meetings. [7]

Personnel

The company has 14,000 employees as of 2024. [25] In 2024, the CEO was Tim Gokey [5] while Chris Perry served as President. The eleven-member board includes chairman Richard J. Daly, Leslie Brun, Annette Nazareth, Pamela Carter, Robert Deulks, Melvin Flowers, Tim Gokey, Brett Keller, Maura Markus, Eileen Murray, and Amit Zavery. [26]

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