NYSE adds four transfer agents to a tokenised stock venue with no launch date

The exchange’s records partners now cover nearly all of the S&P 500, but nothing in the announcement shows any of them live.

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The New York Stock Exchange has added four transfer agents to its planned tokenised stock venue: Broadridge, Computershare, Equiniti and Superstate.

It announced the additions on X on Monday.

The exchange says Computershare, Equiniti and Broadridge together serve nearly 5,000 listed companies, including almost 99 percent of the S&P 500. Securitize and tZERO joined earlier.

Broadridge says it will provide onchain voting, so investors could vote through wallets, brokerage platforms or its ProxyVote system. Chief executive Tim Gokey calls it the governance layer for tokenised equities. That would put shareholder records and voting services onchain, the unglamorous plumbing a tokenised market needs.

Lynn Martin, president of NYSE Group, says the priority remains protecting market integrity.

The plan also includes 24-hour trading, instant settlement and stablecoin funding, all subject to regulatory approval. The SEC issued an innovation exemption on 17 September that created a separate path for tokenised venues, and DTCC unveiled its own platform the week before.

Nasdaq is building its own tokenised securities infrastructure with Kraken’s parent. CoinDesk discloses that its own parent, Bullish, is acquiring Equiniti. The OKX and ICE tokenised stock venue is a separate project and not part of this plan.

Nothing in CoinDesk’s account shows that any of the agents is live on the platform, and the NYSE has given no launch date. A list of record keepers is a necessary start. It is not a market. CoinDesk’s account describes no regulatory approval for the platform.

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