TSX Trust Scrutineers First-Ever Virtual Annual General and Special Meeting
July 26, 2017 (TORONTO) – TSX Trust Company (TSX Trust), a subsidiary of TMX Group, today announced it scrutineered the first-ever totally virtual annual general and special meeting of a public company in Canada last month for Concordia International Corp. (TSX:CXR).
TSX Trust collaborated with Lumi, a global leader in shareholder meeting technology, to implement streaming technology for the purpose of reporting on attendance and tabulating votes of shareholders. TSX Trust authenticated and validated attendance and voting in real-time.
"TSX Trust is extremely proud to be the first Canadian transfer agent to put the theory of virtual shareholder meetings into practice," said Loui Anastasopoulos, President, TSX Trust and Managing Director, TSX Company Services, TMX Group. "As industry leaders, we are committed to being at the forefront with emerging technology and are confident by the certainty of voting results that our clients expect at all of their meetings."
"Concordia chose to modernize its annual general and special meeting this year with a cost-effective, live, two-way webcast to ensure that all shareholders, regardless of geographic location, had the opportunity to participate," said Concordia spokesperson Adam Peeler. "TSX Trust and Lumi each played significant roles in ensuring a successful meeting."
"We were pleased to collaborate with TSX Trust to meet Concordia's shareholder meeting needs," said Simon Bryan, Managing Director, Americas, Lumi. "We recognize that there is an appetite and demand to shift to totally virtual meetings; the combination of TSX Trust's shareholder meeting expertise and our technology capabilities was the perfect solution for Concordia and its shareholders."
Please visit TSX Trust's virtual meeting services page for more information.
About TMX Group (TSX: X)
TMX Group's key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets and clearinghouses for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange, The Canadian Depository for Securities, Montréal Exchange, Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation, NGX, Shorcan, Shorcan Energy Brokers, AgriClear and other TMX Group companies provide listing markets, trading markets, clearing facilities, depository services, data products and other services to the global financial community. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across Canada (Montréal, Calgary and Vancouver), in key U.S. markets (New York, Houston) as well as in London, Beijing and Singapore. For more information about TMX Group, visit our website at www.tmx.com. Follow TMX Group on Twitter: @TMXGroup.
For more information please contact:
Catherine Kee
Manager, Corporate Communications
TMX Group
416-814-8834
catherine.kee@tmx.com