SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LENDER DIRECTED VOTING

摘要

Systems and methods for assigning a company's proxies associated with a company's shares from a financial intermediary to a lender are disclosed. In accordance with an aspect of the invention a system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a number of the company's shares for which the financial intermediary has not received proxy voting instructions and, for a plurality of lenders, the number of the company's shares loaned by the lender. The processor has access to the memory and determines a number of the company's proxies for which the financial intermediary has not received proxy voting instructions to assign to at least some of the plurality of lenders based on the number of company's shares for which the financial intermediary has not received voting instructions and based on the number of shares loaned by the lender.