How Blockchain Proxy-Voting Will Improve Shareholder Engagement
By Dr Mark van Rijmenam on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE
We live in an increasingly globalized world. Although some world leaders believe that the future belongs to patriots rather than globalists, technology is making the world an ever more integrated and smaller place.
In fact, we can say that globalization has gone digital. In the 21st century, globalization is all about exchanging data. Thanks to the interconnected digital world that we live in, borders are disappearing, and national legislation is increasingly difficult to maintain. In today’s world, even a 1-person company can be a multi-national and thanks to blockchain and Security Token Offerings (STOs) organizations can raise funds from anywhere in the world.
Not only startups can benefit from these new distributed ledger technologies, but also existing public multi-national enterprises (MNEs) can use it to improve, for example, corporate governance. MNEs span multiple jurisdictions and territories, where variables such as technologies, infrastructure, markets, legislation and customer demands are different. In addition, shareholders can be…