BNP Paribas & Proxymity Transform Shareholder Meetings With Real-Time Connectivity

Mariangela Fumagalli, Head of Asset Services, BNP Paribas Securities Services, and Dean Little, CEO & Co-Founder, Proxymity, spoke at Sibos 2025 about taking shareholder meetings from paper-bound to real time.

BNP Paribas has embedded Proxymity into its corporate-events stack so clients use it via the bank’s portal with VoteConnect live in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and VoteConnect Global rolling out for worldwide custody. Fumagalli says this “meets clients where they work” approach speeds adoption.

When issuers post meeting details, Proxymity builds a reconciled digital pathway and it ingests intermediaries’ position files, pushes issuer-verified information to investors in real time, and returns votes directly to issuers as they’re cast. Little contrasts this with legacy free-text, faxes and paper cards that cause delays and errors.

Issuers are engaged at source while investors still get timely, accurate data and as its noted, Proxymity has tangible benefits such as faster access to materials, clearer deadlines, more decision time, and the ability to focus on stewardship, governance and ESG, rather than admin.

Proxymity is cloud-native, scaling for peak seasons and large onboardings with the goal being a market utility for general meetings. Little envisions issuers viewing their investors end-to-end and investors engaging with source data and voting up to the deadline, all in one place. Working with BNP Paribas’ experts has already improved the product.

BNP Paribas brings global reach and trust while Proxymity supplies the rails. Together they’re turning proxy voting and corporate-event participation into a digital, real-time experience and making transparency the default.