eVoting

KDPW is one of the key infrastructure institutions of the Polish financial market - it has 29 years of experience on the Polish and European capital markets and offers a broad range of financial services to domestic and international clients.

The eVoting is the first in a range of services which KDPW offers on the Blockchain Platform for the Capital Market. It supports general meetings of public companies, including voting using digital devices.

In addition to issuers and shareholders, eVoting brokers-custodians includes all those entities holding securities accounts with KDPW, for whom eVoting provides the ability to integrate with account maintenance services.

• access full information on general meeting,
• participate in general meetings through electronic media, including voting before and during the meeting,
• modify their votes up until the close of voting on agenda item,
• utilize split voting functionality,
• assign and manage proxies,
• communicate with the issuer before and during the general meeting,
• receive confirmation that the votes were casted and counted by the issuer,
• view voting as well as general meeting results.

• register general meetings in the CSD system,
• disseminate information on general meeting convocation to the market,
• provide all interested parties with general meeting details, including agenda and proposed resolutions,
• administer general meeting life cycle, including agenda modifications, entitlements and voting process,
• confirm the votes were received and counted,
• disseminate general meeting results to the market,
• manage participation lists, shareholders and proxies.

Brokers/custodians provide notifications of participation from entitled shareholders to the issuer. They can also represent their clients in eVoting, as their proxies.

By joining the Blockchain Platform for the Capital Market custodians and brokers are able to integrate eVoting with their own IT systems, and offer the service on a white label basis.