Euroclear has acquired a minority stake in Proxymity, a digital investor communications platform, becoming a strategic shareholder and client. The investment follows Proxymity's successful Series C funding round last year and adds Euroclear to the company's consortium of global custodians, transfer agents and market infrastructure operators. Proxymity's platform will be integrated within Euroclear's corporate actions and governance services, enhancing digital capabilities for shareholder communications. The company serves over 105 markets globally and counts 96 FTSE 100 companies as clients, working with custodians managing over $200 trillion in assets. The partnership aims to modernise shareholder communications by reducing operational complexity and improving transparency in proxy voting and shareholder disclosure processes across global markets.

Euroclear acquires minority stake in Proxymity. 26 February 2026 Belgium/ UK Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft Image: milkyway/stock.adobe.com Euroclear has acquired a minority stake in Proxymity, a digital investor communications platform, becoming a strategic shareholder and client. Euroclear says its investment signals confidence in Proxymity's capabilities and supports the further development of its global proxy voting and shareholder disclosure technology, alongside its international expansion. Proxymity's platform will be integrated within Euroclear's corporate actions and governance services, advancing its digital capabilities, and strengthening the delivery of seamless, end-to-end services to clients globally. Through this investment, Euroclear joins Proxymity's consortium of global custodians, transfer agents, and market infrastructure operators. As a global provider of Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) services, Euroclear enables domestic and cross-border securities transactions and asset safekeeping worldwide. Dean Little, CEO and co-founder at Proxymity, comments: "Euroclear's investment and commitment as a client marks an important step in its continued growth. "Modernising shareholder communications requires closer collaboration between infrastructure providers and technology platforms and this partnership reflects that progress. Aligning more closely with post-trade operations is critical to delivering more connected and reliable processes across markets." Sebastien Danloy, chief business officer, Euroclear, adds: "This investment reflects Euroclear's ongoing strategy to support technology that brings true value to clients and ultimately makes their lives easier. "By integrating Proxymity's real-time digital capabilities, Assetservicingtimes can help clients reduce operational complexity, improve transparency and make voting and shareholder communications faster and more reliable across markets. "Working closely with Proxymity allows us to deliver more efficient governance services, reduce manual intervention and provide a better overall client experience." Next technology article NO FEE, NO RISK 100% ON RETURNS If you invest in only one asset servicing news source this year, make sure it is your free subscription to Asset Servicing Times

Russia's retaliatory measures to create operational problems for Euroclear - FT. According to the report, Euroclear has hired 200 additional employees to handle frozen Russian assets on a permanent basis BRUSSELS, December 30. /TASS/. The possible withdrawal of Western companies' assets from Russia's National Settlement Depository will create operational problems for the Belgian depository Euroclear, which holds around 180 bln euros in frozen Russian assets, the Financial Times (FT) newspaper reported. In mid-December, Fitch Ratings warned Euroclear of a possible downgrade of its AA credit rating due to potential liquidity problems associated with plans to allocate a reparations loan to finance Kiev. Euroclear has hired 200 additional employees to handle frozen Russian assets on a permanent basis, the publication said. It has also strengthened security at its premises and around chief executive Valerie Urbain after she received threats. The failure of the EU's plan to expropriate frozen Russian assets under the guise of a reparations loan to Ukraine has placed the previously little-known company Euroclear and its Luxembourg competitor Clearstream at the center of a geopolitical struggle over funding aid to Kiev, the FT wrote. Experts warn that Brussels' intervention in Europe's financial infrastructure could push countries and banks to stop using it, according to the publication. Countries like China and Russia may say they will never want to be in a situation where they are under pressure due to confiscation or use of their sovereign assets, one participant in discussions about the frozen funds said, adding that this will lead to fragmentation of the financial system. The EU and G7 countries have frozen around 300 bln euros in Russian assets. Nearly 180 bln euros is held in Euroclear. Participants at the EU summit previously failed to agree on the expropriation of frozen Russian assets under the guise of a reparations loan to Ukraine. Instead, a decision was made to allocate 90 bln euros to Kiev through a loan for 2026-2027. The depository has repeatedly spoken out against the expropriation of Russian funds, warning that this could lead to Russia seizing European or Belgian assets in other parts of the world through legal proceedings.