Agentic Operations transforms how post-trade functions run. Instead of teams wrangling data, rekeying PDFs, and clearing exceptions, AI agents handle that work under human oversight — freeing your people for decisions that require real judgment.

Three forces make now the right moment:

• Settlement windows are compressing (T+1 is live in the US, T+0 is the direction of travel)
• Transaction volumes keep growing, creating backlogs
• A generational shift in operational talent is reshaping expectations and capabilities

• Scale post-trade processing without adding headcount. Volume spikes and new business no longer create backlogs or trigger emergency hiring.
• Faster process deployment. New reconciliations go from days to hours, with most of that time on human review.
• Smarter exception management. Agents surface only breaks requiring human attention. Your team tackles root causes, not noise.
• Lower operational risk. No manual rekeying means fewer errors; every agent action is fully logged.
• Workforce elevation. Staff shift from task work to decision-making. Better for retention, better for the business.

Three things matter most for post-trade:

• Trusted data infrastructure. Agents are only as good as the data they work with. Duco’s data preparation capabilities address this, but audit your current data quality first.
• Clear human-in-the-loop rules. Agree which decisions require human validation before go-live. This is a governance exercise, not a technical one.
• An operating model for the transition. Your team will shift from task execution to oversight and decision-making. Change management is as important as the technology deployment.
• The right partners. Building a new agentic operating model requires vendor partners with the technical capability, data security and industry experience to keep agents controlled, auditable, and your data protected.

Agentic workspace provides access to Duco’s tool surface – the hundreds of tools that make up Duco’s key capabilities of data extraction, preparation, reconciliation, exception management and reporting. Agentic workspace allows users to access and guide tools with simple prompts, either via an agentic workspace window or a headless model, where Duco agents communicate with your agents via MCP.

Agentic workspace can help with processes across middle- and back-office teams, from private markets deal term extraction and OTC confirms to trade and position reconciliations. Agentic workspace automation use cases include:

• New process build
• EUC replacement
• Match rate optimisation
• Root cause analysis
• Audit and evidence generation

Yes – these are the tasks that agentic workspace was built for! You prompt the agents and they figure out how to achieve your intended results within the parameters of the Duco platform.