NYSE adds Broadridge, Computershare, Equiniti and Superstate as transfer agents for planned tokenised venue

NYSE has signed transfer agent agreements with Broadridge Financial Solutions, Computershare, Equiniti and Superstate for its planned tokenised securities venue, the exchange said on 2 November in an insights post and an article on its X account. NYSE said the firms are joining “to support Issuer Sponsored Tokenized Securities on the new NYSE-affiliated venue for trading tokenized securities”.

They join two firms NYSE had already signed, Securitize and tZERO, taking the number of transfer agents named on NYSE’s page to six.

Two kinds of transfer agent

NYSE splits the six firms into two groups. It says Securitize, Superstate and tZERO “bring blockchain-native infrastructure, on-chain recordkeeping, and digital asset expertise”. Computershare, Equiniti and Broadridge “bring decades of transfer agent experience, long-standing issuer relationships, and operational scale, and together, they serve close to 5,000 publicly listed companies, including nearly 99% of the S&P 500”.

NYSE gives the 5,000-company and 99% figures for those three firms together, not for all six.

Lynn Martin, President of NYSE Group, said: “Our priority remains protecting and upholding market integrity through every technological advancement, and we are thrilled to partner with like-minded organizations as we shape the future of finance.”

What the transfer agents said

NYSE published a statement from each of the six firms.

• Broadridge: Tim Gokey, its CEO, said: “Broadridge’s horizontal governance layer and integrated digital and traditional transfer agency services simplifies complexity for issuers irrespective of where their shares are tokenized and held.”
• Computershare: Ann Bowering, CEO, Issuer Services, North America, said: “As the first transfer agent to offer Issuer-Sponsored Tokens, we are pleased to be working with the NYSE on this initiative”.
• Equiniti: Dan Kramer, its CEO, said the firm would bring “Equiniti’s transfer agent expertise, issuer relationships and operational scale to this next generation of market infrastructure”.
• Superstate: Robert Leshner, its CEO, said: “Tokenization is a partnership between issuers, transfer agents, and exchanges, and that future is happening today.”
• Securitize: Carlos Domingo, Chairman and CEO, said the firm was “proud to be selected as NYSE’s first digital transfer agent and a premier design partner”.
• tZERO: Alan Konevsky, its CEO, said tZERO “brings deep experience in supporting the issuance, ownership and transfer of tokenized securities”.

Broadridge also put out its own release on 2 November. It says “NYSE will leverage Broadridge’s governance smart contracts, connecting tokenized securities to meeting agendas, voting rules, and verifiable results”, and that investors can take part “through supported wallets, broker interfaces or ProxyVote”. Broadridge says its services “will enable NYSE-listed issuers to tokenize their stock for trading on NYSE’s tokenized securities platform”.

How the venue is meant to work

NYSE says the platform will power the new venue once it has regulatory approval, and that this “includes both third-party custodial tokens and issuer sponsored tokenized securities”. It says: “Both types are fungible with traditionally issued securities, so people who hold tokenized shares will get the same dividends and governance rights as other shareholders.”

NYSE says the venue is built around established market structure principles, “with distribution via non-discriminatory access to all participating broker-dealers”. It says the platform “will enable tokenized trading experiences, including 24/7 operations, instant settlement, orders sized in dollar amounts, and stablecoin-based funding”. NYSE does not give further detail on how the stablecoin-based funding would work. According to NYSE, the platform’s design “combines the NYSE’s cutting-edge Pillar matching engine with blockchain-based post-trade systems, including the capability to support multiple chains for settlement and custody”.

Those two passages on features and design repeat, almost word for word, ICE’s 19 January announcement of the platform, “for which it will seek regulatory approvals”. In January, ICE described access as open to “all qualified broker-dealers”; the 2 November text says “all participating broker-dealers”.

The earlier agreements

ICE announced the Securitize memorandum of understanding on 24 March. It named Securitize “the first digital transfer agent eligible to mint blockchain-native securities for corporate or ETF issuers” on what it called the Digital Trading Platform. It also said Securitize Markets “is expected to become one of the broker-dealer participants”.

tZERO’s release of 31 August said ICE would invest in its latest financing round and receive a licence to tZERO’s blockchain patent portfolio. It said that, “Subject to the satisfaction of applicable regulatory, technology, and operational requirements, tZERO is expected to be designated as an approved digital transfer agent and subscriber to the Digital Trading Platform.”

A separate route on the existing exchanges

The new venue is distinct from the rule changes NYSE Group’s existing exchanges filed this spring, which cover trading under DTC’s tokenisation pilot. The New York Stock Exchange filed SR-NYSE-2026-17 on 9 April, and the SEC’s notice was published in the Federal Register on 22 April. The rule change, filed for immediate effectiveness and based on Nasdaq’s approved rules, lets member organisations that are eligible for the DTC pilot trade tokenised versions of eligible securities on the exchange. Those trades are cleared and settled by DTC in token form. The tokenised shares trade on the same order book as traditional shares, with the same priority, provided they are “fungible with, have the same CUSIP number and trading symbol as, and afford their holders the same rights and privileges as traditional securities of an equivalent class”. The filing limits eligible securities to Russell 1000 constituents and ETFs that track major indices. It says trading will begin only once DTC’s infrastructure is in place, and that members will get at least 30 days’ notice.

Four other NYSE Group exchanges made similar filings. NYSE Texas filed SR-NYSETEX-2026-13 on 29 April (published 5 May). NYSE Arca filed SR-NYSEARCA-2026-45 on 29 April (published 6 May). NYSE National filed SR-NYSENAT-2026-09 on 1 May (published 15 May), and NYSE American filed SR-NYSEAMER-2026-36 on 1 May (published 15 May). DTC launched the DTCC Tokenization Service on 28 October.

The 2 November announcement does not mention OKXICE TSV, the tokenised securities venue whose issuer objection notices we have reported.

Why it matters

Analysis. Third-party tokenised stock has run into resistance from issuers, as the OKXICE notices show. NYSE says its venue will trade third-party custodial tokens as well, but it says the transfer agent agreements are to support issuer-sponsored tokenised securities. Signing Computershare, Equiniti and Broadridge means an issuer that already uses one of them could, in principle, take part without moving its register to a digital-native firm.

The statement that token holders “will get the same dividends and governance rights” depends on the transfer agents’ records and, for voting, on services such as Broadridge’s. That makes the agents central to whether the promise holds in practice.

What we are watching

• What regulatory approval NYSE seeks for the venue, and when.
• Which issuers sign up first, and which transfer agents they use.
• The standards for digital transfer agents, which ICE said it planned to develop with Securitize (March) and tZERO (August).
• Which blockchains NYSE approves for settlement and custody.

Sources

• The NYSE Group’s network of transfer agent partners is expanding, New York Stock Exchange, 2 November 2026
• NYSE Expands Network of Transfer Agents (X article), New York Stock Exchange (@NYSE), 2 November 2026
• Broadridge to Bring OnChain Governance and Digital Transfer Agency to New York Stock Exchange Tokenized Securities Platform, Broadridge Financial Solutions, 2 November 2026
• DTCC Tokenization Service Goes Live, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, 28 October 2026
• tZERO and ICE Agree to Collaborate on Infrastructure for Public Tokenized Securities Markets, tZERO Group, 31 August 2026
• New York Stock Exchange and Securitize Agree to Memorandum of Understanding to Support Tokenized Securities, Intercontinental Exchange, 24 March 2026
• The New York Stock Exchange Develops Tokenized Securities Platform, Intercontinental Exchange, 19 January 2026
• SR-NYSE-2026-17: Proposed Rule Change To Enable the Trading of Securities on the Exchange in Tokenized Form, Federal Register, 22 April 2026
• SR-NYSETEX-2026-13 (NYSE Texas), Federal Register, 5 May 2026
• SR-NYSEARCA-2026-45 (NYSE Arca), Federal Register, 6 May 2026
• SR-NYSENAT-2026-09 (NYSE National), Federal Register, 15 May 2026
• SR-NYSEAMER-2026-36 (NYSE American), Federal Register, 15 May 2026