VOTACCESS : Online-Vote prior to general meetings

VOTACCESS is an information system that automatically collects voting instructions sent by shareholders of listed companies before a General Meeting (GM) is held.
SLIB was chosen by AFTI (Association Française des Professionnels des titres) to develop, manage and operate this system.

VOTACCESS simplifies, secures and speeds-up the process of collecting voting instructions.

VOTACCESS streamlines the exchanges between the following players involved in the voting process:

• Shareholder
• Account keeper
• Custodian
• Issuer Agent

Processing

In concrete terms, the shareholder expresses his voting instruction on the VOTACCESS platform accessed through the secured Website of his Custodian who has the responsibility of checking his client’s capacity to vote.

Once the shareholder registers his voting choice, his instruction is sent to the Issuer Agent who adds it to the GM’s ballot box under his management.

In parallel, the paper forms of clients who prefer to continue using these are digitalized as soon as they arrive at the custodian and sent to VOTACCESS.
Thus, VOTACCESS allows the Issuer Agent to receive all the voting instructions in the form of electronic data.

Key Benefits

• VOTACCESS facilitates access to voting for "bearer securities" holders and eases access to voting for non-resident shareholders. It is compliant with the latest European Directive on « shareholders’ rights ».
• Straight-Though-Processing: the access through Internet is smoother, faster and more secure than paper hard copy processing. Exclusively electronic data circulate among financial intermediaries and reach the Issuer Agent.
• Sustainable development: using VOTACCESS helps reducing the number of paper kits in circulation (millions right now) and hence diminishes the vote carbon footprints.
• VOTACCESS improves the reactivity of all actors along the voting chain when taking into account the position updates of the shareholder.

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