Broadridge Financial Solutions
American corporate services company
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. is a public corporate services and financial technology company. Headquartered in Lake Success, New York, the company was founded in 2007 as a spin-off from Automatic Data Processing. 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.
Other products and services include financial software and infrastructure for corporate governance, proxy and regulatory communications, and investor communications. It also hosts trading platforms and provides software and infrastructure for asset and wealth management.
History
1962-2006
Broadridge was founded in 1962 as ADP Brokerage Services Group, a business unit of the American payroll processing company Automatic Data Processing (ADP). Operating as ADP's shareholder communications division, it initially served one client by processing an average of 300 trades per night.
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.
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