Duco, a London-headquartered financial services automation firm serving more than 200 clients across 30 countries, has launched what it describes as the first agentic Operations platform built specifically for the financial services industry.
The platform, which runs on infrastructure already handling 20 billion transactions each month, consolidates the tools firms require to manage post-trade operations alongside autonomous agents.
Among Duco’s existing client base are seven of the top 20 banks and ten of the top 20 asset managers. The launch also introduces the Pacesetters cohort, a group of leading post-trade operations firms given early access to new capabilities as they become available, direct input into product development, and a head start on future operating models. Ten firms are already running Duco agents in live production environments, with a further wave of Pacesetters applications now open.
Central to the platform is a new agent layer that reconfigures Duco’s existing infrastructure into hundreds of discrete, post-trade-specific capabilities. Using Model Context Protocol (MCP), the toolset covers reconciliation, data preparation, data access, audit trails, exception management and document creation. The company says this gives agents a verified and deterministic foundation, one where agents work alongside existing matching, rules and audit functions rather than replacing them.
The platform addresses three converging pressures in post-trade operations: tightening settlement windows, rising transaction volumes and a generational shift in workforce and working practices. Duco argues that manual processing is increasingly difficult to justify at scale, and that legacy systems are incompatible with effective AI deployment.
Early results from Pacesetters deployments point to significant efficiency gains. Building a new reconciliation process on the platform has reportedly been reduced from two days to four hours, with around 20 minutes of agent runtime and the remainder dedicated to human review. Auto-built workflows, continuous process optimisation and faster exception investigation have all moved from planned features to live operational use.
Duco’s platform enables financial services firms to automate manual operations work and reposition staff from task execution to decision-making. It combines proprietary techniques, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and deep operational expertise to deliver end-to-end reconciliation, data trust and automation regardless of data source, format or structure.
Duco CEO and co-founder Christian Nentwich said, “For more than a decade, our clients have trusted Duco to reconcile the most complex data in capital markets. They are now telling us that agents will run a meaningful share of post-trade Operations within three years. Duco is assembling the most powerful set of tools and context ever built for Operations to enable this.
“What we are launching today is not another AI feature. It is the operating system for post-trade in the agentic era. The Pacesetters are defining what good looks like for everyone else and we will share what they learn so the whole industry can move faster.”
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