Broadridge

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Company Profile & facts

Broadridge – an organization that you can trustSpun off from ADP in 2007, Broadridge continues to extend the strong global heritage of service excellence upon which our market leadership is founded. We maintain the dedicated staffing resources, intellectual capital, uncompromising ethics, financial staying power and vision to focus entirely on what we do best – helping financial services institutions and public companies around the world become more efficient and more focused on better serving their customers.

Our principal businesses

Our broad solutions portfolio includes mission-critical products and services for securities processing, clearing and outsourcing and investor communication.

Outsourcing leadership
Through our unique breadth of best-in-class outsourcing solutions and our highly scalable processing model we process an average of nearly two million trades per day, and we process and distribute more than one billion shareowner communications annually through our industry-leading data centres.

Our mission

We are fully committed and highly focused on enabling our clients' growth. Our mission is to drive the industry we serve to higher levels of efficiency and compliance; to partner with financial institutions and public companies to enable their growth; and to provide innovative outsourcing solutions for mission-critical activities.Global presence, local expertiseBroadridge is strategically aligned to the way its clients conduct their business. We service our clients by providing solutions and services that meet global, regional and local requirements, backed by comprehensive and in-depth market expertise.Headquartered in New York, our international market presence spans regional and local centers across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

World leading services, world leading people
With over 4,000 dedicated professionals, including our well-established and highly experienced management team, Broadridge associates are committed to consistently attaining the highest standards of service excellence at every level across our global organization.

Our clients

Broadridge delivers optimized solutions and a consistent, best-in-class experience to all of our clients. We offer global banks, retail, institutional and discount brokerage firms, correspondent clearing firms, mutual and hedge funds, investment firms, public corporations and other institutions a wide range of cost-effective and scalable multi-currency processing solutions. Whether a client is large or small, we help each one seize opportunities to grow their business.

Historic Events / Press Room

We are the former Brokerage Services Business of ADP. Our company has a 44-year history of providing innovative solutions to the financial services industry and publicly-held companies.
In 1962, the Brokerage Services division of ADP opened for business with one client, processing an average of 300 trades per night.

In 1979, we expanded our U.S.-based securities processing solutions to process Canadian securities. During the 1980s, we began providing desktop productivity tools extending our role as a service provider to both the front and back-office of financial institutions. We made significant additions to our Securities Processing Solutions business through two key acquisitions in the mid-1990s.

In 1995, we acquired London-based Wilco International, a provider of multi-currency clearance and settlement services, to become a global supplier of transaction processing services. Wilco has opened offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo, acquired firms in Australia and Germany, and has become a key link in our ability to integrate our full suite of transaction processing services to clients around the world.

In 1996, we acquired Information Catalyst Inc., a provider of institutional fixed income transaction processing systems. In our 2006 fiscal year, we processed on average approximately $2 trillion per day in fixed income trades. We began offering our proxy services in 1989. The proxy services business, which started what has become our Investor Communications Solutions business, leveraged the information processing systems and infrastructure of our Securities Processing Solutions business. Our proxy services offering attracted 31 major clients in its first year of operations.

In 1992, we acquired The Independent Election Corporation of America which further increased our proxy services capabilities. By 1999, we were handling over 90% of the investor communications distributions for all securities held of record by banks and brokers in the United States — from proxy statements to annual reports. During the 1990s, we expanded our proxy services business to serve security owners of Canadian and United Kingdom issuers and we offered a complete outsourced solution for international proxies.

In 1995, we became the exclusive owner of the ProxyEdge product after acquiring the one-half interest then owned by our joint venture partner. ProxyEdge is our workflow solution that permits the electronic voting of institutionally held shares and now accounts for the processing of approximately 50% of all U.S. shares voted by stockholders.

In 1999, we acquired Management Information Services Corp., a company specializing in proxy processing services for mutual funds. We entered into a joint venture with the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2004, gaining entry into the world's second largest capital market and expanding our international proxy services presence. Over 100 issuers in Japan have signed on to this service.

In 2005, we launched a proxy solicitation service designed for the registered mutual fund and annuity industry. In 1998, having previously provided print and distribution services as an accommodation to our transaction processing and proxy clients, we decided to focus on account statement and reporting services.

In 2001, we acquired IBM's print centers in Dallas, Texas and Columbus, Ohio, significantly expanding the size and scale of our print and distribution services. Also in that year, we developed and released PostEdge to meet the need for electronic distribution and archiving of all investor communications.

In 2002, we acquired Argus Group to add on-demand customized print capabilities to our investor communication offerings. In 2005, we entered the securities clearing business by purchasing Bank of America Corporation's U.S. Clearing and BrokerDealer Services businesses. The following year we commenced offering our unique business process outsourcing service to self-clearing U.S. broker-dealers.

News

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. announced that it has purchased $125 million principal amount of its 6.125% Senior Notes due 2017 pursuant to its previously announced cash tender offer for such notes.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. announced today that it has increased the size of its offer to purchase its 6.125% Senior Notes due 2017 from $75 million aggregate principal amount of notes to a maximum of $125 million aggregate principal amount of notes.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., a leading global provider of technology-based outsourcing solutions to the financial services industry, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 that are within its previously announced guidance range, and announced an increase of approximately 17% in its dividend amount for fiscal year 2009.

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