Duco launches agentic platform for post-trade automation

Duco has launched an agentic Operations platform aimed at automating post-trade workflows. The platform introduces a verified agent tool layer called the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and a pacesetters cohort; Duco reports 10 firms are already running agents in production and the platform is available now.

The platform builds on Duco’s existing processing engine, which handles about 20 billion transactions a month for more than 200 clients, including seven of the top 20 banks and ten of the top 20 asset managers. Duco says the new architecture combines the components firms use for post-trade operations with a controlled surface of tools designed for autonomous agents.

Duco has unbundled part of its core platform into an agent layer that exposes hundreds of discrete capabilities for post-trade tasks. The Model Context Protocol provides deterministic tools for reconciliation, data preparation, data access, audit trails, exception management and document creation. Duco states agents will use existing matching, rules and audit functions rather than replace them, and that deterministic tools are intended to support operational confidence in agent activity.

The company has formed a pacesetters cohort of post-trade operations teams to trial and shape the platform. Participants receive early access to new capabilities, direct input into product development, and operational guidance. Duco says applications for the next wave of pacesetters are open.

Early deployments reported by Duco show time savings on reconciliation and exception handling. The company cites a case where creating a new reconciliation process fell from about two days to roughly four hours, with approximately 20 minutes of agent runtime and the remainder spent on human review. Duco also reports auto-built workflows from raw inputs, ongoing optimization of processes and faster exception investigations in active use cases.

Christian Nentwich, Duco’s CEO and co-founder, characterized the platform as an operating system for post-trade in the agentic era and said clients expect agents to handle a meaningful share of post-trade operations within three years. Duco is offering demonstrations of the Agentic Workspace and directing interested firms to its website for information and pacesetters applications.