The Agentic Bank

Settlement Instruction Agent

⬡ Dispatch Builds, validates, and releases settlement instructions to CSDs and custodians.
◆ Autonomous Worker

Takes the affirmed trade, attaches the right SSIs, formats the instruction for the relevant market (DTC, Euroclear, the lot), pre-matches it, and releases it into the settlement cycle. Catches the bad SSI before it becomes tomorrow's fail.

Memory

Working The trade, the resolved SSI, the market-specific format.
Episodic Recent failed instructions to the same market/account.
Semantic Market settlement conventions, cut-off times, SSI directory.
Store SSI directory + instruction ledger

Orchestration

pipeline MCP

Harness · Managed Agents … high-throughput session; computer-use for legacy custodian green-screen portals without APIs.

Tools

{ } SWIFT messaging (MT54x) API Custodian / CSD portals Computer use { } SSI directory API { } Pre-matching service API

Evals & guardrails

  • SSI validation + market-format check before any release; bad instructions quarantined.
  • Cut-off-time guardrail: instructions at risk of missing the cycle escalate.
  • Reconciliation of released-vs-acknowledged against the custodian.

Frontier edge

  • World-model simulation: replays the instruction through a model of each market's matching logic to catch the would-be fail before release.
  • On-device / edge inference: the format-and-validate hop runs on a low-latency local model so it never adds drag to the real-time settlement path.
  • Proactive: races the cut-off clock per market and reorders the release queue to protect at-risk instructions ahead of time.

A sample run

Trigger Affirmed bond trade settling at Euroclear on value date.
  1. 1Resolve the counterparty SSI; validate against the directory.
  2. 2Format the MT543 for the market; pre-match with the counterparty.
  3. 3Release ahead of the cut-off; confirm acknowledgement.
Output A matched, acknowledged instruction in the settlement queue with a clean audit trail.

In numbers

320,000
Instructions released / day
97.1%
Pre-match rate

Handoffs

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