Duco processes 20 billion transactions every month across more than 200 clients — seven of the top 20 banks and ten of the top 20 asset managers among them. That scale gives the London-based company an unusual vantage point on post-trade operations, which sit where three compounding pressures meet: settlement windows that have been shrinking for years, transaction volumes that keep growing, and a workforce transition that is making purely manual handling harder to justify.
The platform uses Model Context Protocol (MCP) to unbundle Duco's existing capabilities into discrete, agent-callable tools. Reconciliation, data preparation, audit trails, exception management, and document creation are all reachable by autonomous agents, with the underlying rules and matching engine still running to provide what the company calls provable accuracy. Agents do not replace the existing infrastructure; they use it.
Early numbers from the Pacesetters cohort — the group of financial services firms with first access to the new layer — suggest the reduction in process-build time is meaningful. Deploying a new reconciliation process that previously took two days now takes four hours: roughly twenty minutes of agent runtime followed by human review.
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
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.
Auto-built workflows from raw inputs, continuous optimisation of existing processes, and accelerated exception investigation are described as moving from roadmap to daily operating reality in the initial deployments. A second Pacesetters wave is now open to qualifying firms. Duco is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Wroclaw, Antwerp, and Singapore; clients include CIBC Mellon, ING, and Man Group.
