Search Results for: voting

December 26, 2023 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension providers, has signed an open letter urgently “calling for more asset managers to offer pass-through voting on pooled funds.” Collectively representing pension schemes, endowments and wealth managers stewarding approximately £250bn assets under… Read More

December 20, 2023 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Proxymity, the digital investor communications platform, has recently announces the launch of its digital proxy voting service – Proxymity Vote Connect Total (VCT) – to BNY Mellon (NYSE: BK) clients in the UK in time for the 2024 voting season. The launch follows Proxymity and… Read More

July 23, 2023 @ 6:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a provider of corporate governance and sustainable investment solutions to financial market participants, launched ISS Exchange, a streamlined, mobile-friendly voting solution, “to augment its Global Proxy Distribution (GPD) offering.” ISS Exchange is the latest in ISS’ suite of outsourced solutions… Read More

April 8, 2023 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network recently revealed that it would be going ahead with its planned Chapter 11 restructuring process with a disclosure statement including pertinent information for its claim holders. Last week, we filed our Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization (“the Plan”) with the… Read More

February 4, 2023 @ 7:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Proxymity, the digital investor communication platform, today announced its collaboration with FIS® to launch FIS Proxy Voting by Proxymity. The digital proxy voting service “connects issuers, intermediaries, and investors ensuring that investor communications are delivered in real-time.” Rapidly increasing cost pressures amidst “an unpredictable economic… Read More

November 30, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Extending their joint strategic commitment to modernize and enhance shareholder voting in the French market, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) and SLIB, a software editor for electronic voting and securities services based in France,  announced “the go-live of their joint end-to-end global voting solution.”… Read More

October 29, 2022 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European investment platform Lightyear has rolled out voting alongside in-app communication, “giving shareholders and publicly traded companies a seamless way to engage with each other.” This feature is “a first for many countries around Europe, where this level of ownership and transparency is lacking for… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In response to the growing drive for higher corporate governance standards – both globally and at a national market level – Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR)  announced it has “commenced live operations of its new ‘golden copy’ event notification and direct vote execution service for… Read More

November 27, 2021 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Smart Chain, which claims to be the leading decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible token (NFT) and Infra platform, has reportedly completed the first community-voting mechanism pilot for its Most Valuable Builder Program that “selected top ten projects from a pool of industry-leading BSC projects.” As… Read More

August 22, 2021 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital, which aims to advance institutional participation in the digital assets space, reveals that institutions are now able to take part in Aave (AAVE) governance via on-chain voting offered by Anchorage digital bank. Aave is an open-source and non-custodial protocol for generating interest on… Read More

July 10, 2021 @ 12:28 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Australian blockchain-based voting and engagement platform Horizon State will soon start an equity crowdfunding offering on the Equitise platform. Funds will go to staffing, technology, expansion, and other sectors. Horizon State has developed a digital voting and engagement platform that facilitates secure and remote public… Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), which supports the ongoing growth and development of Stellar (XLM), a leading blockchain platform, has noted that on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 “at 1500 UTC,” Stellar (transaction) validators will be voting on whether to upgrade the network to Protocol 17. The… Read More

April 22, 2021 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Block.one, the developer of the EOSIO open-source software, has shared an economic analysis performed by Prysm Group for a proposed Stake-Based Voting and Rewards Mechanism, which specifies an alternative model for “inflation distribution” on the EOS public blockchain network. The proposal aims to serve as… Read More

June 30, 2020 @ 7:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Russia’s blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-enabled voting system for the constitutional amendments recently suffered an attack through an election observer’s node. State-owned news outlet TASS reported that the attack took place on June 27, 2020, at about 8 PM CET. A spokesperson from government… Read More

May 4, 2020 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has made it quite difficult for the United States Congress to conduct meetings and deliberate. Lawmakers have offered suggestions regarding how to keep things going during the ongoing crisis. As mentioned in a Senate memo posted on April 30, 2020, blockchain-based… Read More

May 2, 2020 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Users of Compound, a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending solution, are now able to issue loans and borrow Tether (USDT), the largest stablecoin, following a recent poll of the protocol’s governance token holders. There were 797,981.28 votes that were cast in support of the proposal to… Read More

April 11, 2020 @ 6:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Block.one, a Cayman Islands-registered firm that developed EOS, one of the largest platforms for building and deploying decentralized applications (dApps), has confirmed that it is planning to begin staking and voting on decisions and initiatives involving EOS in May 2020. Block.one’s management clarified that its… Read More

March 28, 2020 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A decentralized application (dApp) created at the University of Malta is helping Master students in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies to cast their votes for student representatives, for the very first time, using blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT). Dr. Joshua Ellul, director at the… Read More

October 20, 2019 @ 5:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nir Kshetri, a professor of management at the University of North Carolina, says that there are some major issues that must be addressed before blockchain-enabled voting can be carried out in a safe and trustworthy manner. Kshetri noted that “small-scale tests run so far have… Read More

June 27, 2019 @ 5:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

OSTKO is the 2nd Digital Security to Trade on PRO Securities ATS Overstock subsidiary (NASDAQ:OSTK) tZERO has commenced trading of “Digital Voting Series A-1 Preferred Stock,” ticker OSTKO (formerly OSTKP). The long-anticipated security token trading on the marketplace represents an important step forward for blockchain… Read More