The second Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II) provided the most far-reaching review of shareholder communication that Europe has seen in many years.

Building on the original SRD, which came into effect in 2007, this aims to strengthen shareholder engagement and to improve transparency of communication between issuer and investor. The deadline for EU member states to transpose SRD II provisions into national law, and for participants in the communication chain to be compliant, was 3 September 2020.

Demi Derem, General Manager for International Investor Communication Solutions at Broadridge, joins the virtual roundtable to discuss how well market participants have adapted to the regulatory requirements, the key benefits SRD II has delivered, and what challenges stakeholders have encountered.

This article was first published in the Asset Servicing Times Sibos 2021 edition and is reproduced here by kind permission of Asset Servicing Times.