Shareholder Management Services - Dividends & Meetings

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Total Support Across The Board

For over 65 years we have worked with UK PLCs, as share registrar, to deliver the very best engagement from your shareholders and investors. From the meticulous management of your share register to achieving successful resolutions at your AGM. Today, as part of our share registration services, we manage c.10 million shareholder accounts for businesses of all sizes, from AIM through to the FTSE 100.

The meticulous management of over 20 million shareholders.

Maintaining your share register to the highest of standards with our experts and EQ-owned technology.

Share register administration
Shareholder services
Management of your shareholder register
Real-time share ownership visibility
Administration of digital shares (CSN) and certificated shares
Shareholder engagement strategies
Investor services
Issuer services
Employee share schemes
Global nominee services
Asset reunification
Depositary interests

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Issuing over £30 billion in dividend payments each year.

Carrying out the technical elements of your dividend and interest payments from inception to completion.

Dividend lifecycle management
Dividend reinvestment plans (DRIP)
Scrip dividends
Multi-channel cash dividends

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Successfully managing over 400 meetings every year.

However complex or high profile, our team will help with the entire process, from the chairman’s script to specialist voting analysis. Shareholder meeting services including management and support of:

Annual General Meetings
General Meetings
Court Meetings

A team of professionals to support:

Hybrid and virtual AGMs
Electronic participation
Meeting execution
Documentation proofing
Vote reporting

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Delivered by over 80 governance and IR professionals.

Helping you meet complex regulatory requirements while also taking into account the uniqueness of each organisation and their individual shareholders and investors.

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Successfully Scaling Digital Engagement

Technology enables efficiency, people enable engagement. That's why we provide you with the expertise and technology to deliver unparalleled experiences for your shareholders and investors.

Real-Time Visibility into Shareholder Activity

Real-Time Analytics gives UK issuers near real-time visibility into shareholder ownership changes between reporting cycles. By connecting directly to Equiniti's share registration system, it helps companies monitor institutional buying, selling, and lending activity as it happens. This enables earlier identification of emerging positions, a better understanding of investor behaviour, and more informed investor relations decision-making.

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Share Register Administration: Implementing Change

A Practical Guide To The Digitisation Task Force Recommendations

At the EQ Conference 2025, our panel provided a practical guide to the digitisation task force recommendations, with each of them embodying a role which explained dematerialisation to our audience.

Speakers: Thera Prins, Anthony Hall, Angela Bridges, Kit Atkinson

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Introducing EQ Boost

Driving Digital Share Ownership. Supercharging Dividends.

By offering an incentive of increased-value dividends, EQ Boost encourages shareholders to ‘be more digital’ with their shareholdings. We're catalysing change to reduce cheques and paper-led processes, saving organisations money and resources.

EQ Boost

Growing Shareholder Digitisation

Watch our recent webinar to discover EQ’s new services, developments in technology and strategies to boost shareholder engagement through online presence and electronic communication sign-ups. Also discussed is how to cater for the digitally excluded and vulnerable investors whilst navigating the evolving landscape.

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The Annual General Meeting Planning Cycle Never Stops

As industry leaders in shareholder meeting services, we know that in order to achieve your preferred outcome, we must plan, prepare, deliver, and use AGM insights.

Build out your meeting strategy today, and explore our hub for AGM insights, applications, inspiration, and support.

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