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BASIS OF PRESENTATION
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BASIS OF PRESENTATION BASIS OF PRESENTATION
A. Description of Business. Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (“Broadridge” or the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, is a global financial technology leader powering investing, corporate governance, and communications. We deliver technology-driven solutions to banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers, public companies, investors, and mutual funds, that enable our clients to operate, innovate and grow. The principal markets in which the Company operates are located in North America and Europe.
The Company operates in two reportable segments: Investor Communication Solutions (“ICS”) and Global Technology and Operations (“GTO”).
Investor Communication Solutions - Broadridge provides the following governance and communications solutions through its Investor Communication Solutions business segment: Regulatory Solutions, Data-Driven Fund Solutions, Corporate Issuer Solutions, and Customer Communications Solutions.
Through our Regulatory Solutions, Broadridge handles the entire proxy materials distribution and voting process for our bank, broker-dealer, corporate issuer and fund clients. Broadridge also provides regulatory communications solutions that enable global asset managers to communicate with large audiences of investors efficiently and reliably by centralizing all investor communications through one resource. Through its Fund Communication Solutions business, Broadridge provides fund managers with a single, integrated provider to manage data, perform calculations, compose documents, manage regulatory compliance, and disseminate information across multiple jurisdictions. Broadridge also provides a range of other regulatory communications solutions, including reorganization communications notifying investors of U.S. reorganizations or corporate action events such as tender offers, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, and global class action services for the identification, filing and recovery of class actions and collective redress proceedings involving securities and other financial products. In addition, Broadridge provides international corporate governance solutions that address its clients’ needs across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. These solutions include institutional and retail global proxy services for financial intermediaries, as well as shareholder disclosure management, data and analytics for both financial intermediaries and corporate issuers.
For asset managers, broker-dealers, and retirement service providers, Broadridge provides a full range of data-driven analytics solutions that operate globally and provide data to power investment product distribution data and predictive modeling, provide insights and research to enable asset managers to optimize product distribution across retail and institutional channels, and automate important tasks such as fund registration, commission payments and compliance monitoring. Broadridge also provides fiduciary-focused learning and development, software and technology, and data and analytics services to advisors, institutions and asset managers across the retirement and wealth ecosystem.
Broadridge also provides automated mutual fund and exchange-traded funds trade processing services for financial institutions who submit trades on behalf of their clients such as qualified and non-qualified retirement plans and individual wealth accounts. In addition, Broadridge’s marketing and transactional communications solutions provide a content management and omni-channel distribution platform for marketing and sales communications for asset managers, insurance providers and retirement service providers.
Broadridge also provides a range of corporate solutions that revolve around shareholder meetings and proxy, corporate governance, regulatory filings and disclosure, and stock transfer services. Broadridge services provide corporate issuers a single source solution that spans the entire corporate disclosure and shareholder communications and corporate disclosure lifecycle.
Broadridge also supports clients across financial services, healthcare, insurance, consumer finance, telecommunications, utilities, and other service industries with omni-channel customer communications management solutions. Broadridge’s capabilities span transactional communications, such as statements and bills, marketing communications, including personalized campaigns and microsites, and regulatory communications, such as trade confirmations and explanations of benefits.
Global Technology and Operations - Broadridge’s Global Technology and Operations business provides mission-critical, scale infrastructure to the global financial markets. Broadridge offers capital markets, wealth and investment management firms modern technology to enable growth, simplify their technology stacks and mutualize costs across both traditional and tokenized assets. Broadridge’s highly scalable, resilient, component-based platform automate the front-to-back transaction lifecycle of equity, mutual fund, fixed income, foreign exchange and exchange-traded derivatives, from order capture and execution through trade confirmation, margin, cash management, clearing and settlement, reference data management, reconciliations, securities financing and collateral management, asset servicing, compliance and regulatory reporting, portfolio accounting and custody-related services. Broadridge’s Wealth Management business provides solutions for advisors and investors and also streamlines back and middle-office operations for broker-dealers by providing systems for critical post-trade activities, including books and records, transaction processing, clearance and settlement, and reporting. Broadridge’s Investment Management business provides portfolio and order management solutions for traditional and alternative asset managers, which bring insights into trading, portfolio construction, risk and analytics. Broadridge’s solutions connect asset managers to a global network of broker-dealers for trade execution and post-trade matching and confirmation. In addition, Broadridge provides business process outsourcing services for its buy- and sell-side clients’ businesses. These services combine Broadridge’s technology, including agentic AI, with its operations expertise to support the entire trade lifecycle, including securities clearing and settlement, reconciliations, record-keeping, wealth management asset servicing, and custody-related functions.
Broadridge’s capital markets platform and solutions deliver simplification and innovation across the full trade lifecycle, from order initiation to settlement. Broadridge’s technology is a global solution, processing clearance and settlement across more than 100 markets. Broadridge’s technology enables its clients to meet the requirements of market change such as the T+1 securities settlement cycle and Broadridge’s solutions enable global capital markets firms to access market liquidity, drive more effective market making and efficient front-to-back trade processing. Through Broadridge’s Trading and Connectivity Solutions business, Broadridge provides technology-driven trading and connectivity solutions that enable global capital markets participants to connect and trade. Broadridge’s front-office solutions, post-trade product suite and other capital markets capabilities enable its clients to streamline their front-to-back technology platforms and operations and increase straight-through-processing efficiencies, across equities, fixed income, exchange-traded derivatives, and other asset classes. Broadridge’s Post-Trade Processing solutions provide a multi-entity, multi-currency back-office platform serving institutional, correspondent clearing, proprietary trading, prime brokerage, custody and primary dealer clients. The platforms support real-time processing across a broad range of asset classes, including equities, ETFs, options, mutual funds, U.S. Treasuries, agencies, corporate and municipal bonds, mortgage backed securities, structured products, and foreign exchange. In addition, our distributed ledger repo solution (“DLR”) uses blockchain-enabled distributed ledger technology and smart contracts to automate end-to-end repo lifecycle processing. This in turn drives greater liquidity, collateral mobility, and operational efficiency while driving cost savings for our clients.
Broadridge’s Wealth Management business delivers front-to-back technology solutions and other capabilities across the entire wealth management lifecycle and streamlines all aspects of wealth management services, including account management, fee management and client on-boarding. The wealth technology solutions enable full-service, regional and independent broker-dealers and investment advisors to better engage with customers through digital marketing and customer communications tools. Broadridge also integrates data, content and technology to drive new customer acquisition, support holistic and personalized advice and cross-sell opportunities. Broadridge’s advisor solutions help advisors optimize their practice management through customer and account data aggregation and reporting.
Broadridge’s Investment Management business services the global investment management industry with a range of buy-side technology solutions such as portfolio management, compliance and fee billing and operational support solutions for hedge funds, family offices, alternative asset managers, traditional asset managers and the providers that service this space including prime brokers, fund administrators and custodians.
B. Consolidation and Basis of Presentation. The Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) in the U.S. and in accordance with the SEC requirements for Annual Reports on Form 10-K. These financial statements present the consolidated position of the Company and include the entities in which the Company directly or indirectly has a controlling financial interest, entities in which the Company has investments recorded under the equity method of accounting as well as certain marketable and non-marketable securities. Intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Amounts presented may not sum due to rounding.