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The Reconciliation Radar
One issue a month from Marc: what we are seeing in the reconciliation market, what we are hearing from vendors and practitioners, and what is worth your attention. Read each issue online.
Issue 05: The T+1 countdown
The control layer is the bottleneck. ESMA completes the EU T+1 framework, DTCC's tokenisation service goes live for $114 trillion of custody and Gresham launches an AI-built control studio.
Read onlineIssue 02: The future showed up early
DTCC trades tokenised assets in live production, Swift's shared ledger opens, agentic AI reconciliation goes GA and AutoRek buys Grath. Plus the EU T+1 date for the whiteboard: 7 December 2026.
Read onlineIssue 01: Agentic AI arrives in reconciliation
SmartStream, Duco, Xceptor, Trintech and BlackLine all ship autonomous agents on top of deterministic matching. Underneath, DTCC, Clearstream and Euronext push tokenisation and ESMA opens two consultations ahead of EU T+1.
Read onlineIn Practice
Working papers from live engagements: platform design and migration, collateral, confirmations, SBL, ETD clearing, regulatory reporting and more. What was built, why, and what it took.
Reconciliation Platform Design
Domain architecture specification for a reconciliation technology vendor: matching, exceptions, data, controls and the decisions that shape all four.
Download PDFFront-to-Back Platform Migration: The Reconciliation Workstream
A point of view for asset managers. What the reconciliation workstream has to prove before, during and after a platform migration.
Download PDFCash Collateral Reconciliation Architecture
Counterparty balance reconciliation across a multi-bank, multi-currency collateral estate.
Download PDFConfirmations Reconciliation
Intraday SWIFT confirmation matching across FX, money market and precious metals.
Download PDFStock Borrowing and Lending Reconciliation
Three-stream reconciliation across the full SBL product universe.
Download PDFETD Clearing Broker Reconciliation
A dual Tier 1 clearing broker implementation, UK-focused and multi-jurisdictional.
Download PDFMiFID II and EMIR Regulatory Reporting Reconciliation
Transaction reporting completeness, ARM accuracy and delegated position reporting.
Download PDFDemerger and Post-Merger Reconciliation Separation
Data architecture and test discipline for Tier 1 bank separation events.
Download PDFWealth Management Reconciliation Consolidation
A multi-platform estate consolidated onto a single cloud-native platform across ten domains.
Download PDFThe Reconciliation Desk
Short, sharp pieces on what is changing right now: CASS 15 and 16, REP027 safeguarding, the proof layer, fraud and the controls that catch it.
Issue 13: One of the three records never closes
CASS 16 and CASS 17. What the cryptoasset regime means for the daily reconciliation: which records have to agree, what breaks them and how to build a daily check that stands up.
Download PDFIssue 10: REP027 is monthly now. The return is the easy part
REP027 safeguarding. The FCA asked payment firms for a monthly safeguarding return. What it really asked for is a reconciliation most of them do not yet have.
Download PDFIssue 09: Fraud shows up in the reconciliation first
Fraud and the proof layer. The break ageing profile is the earliest fraud signal most banks hold, and almost none of them read it.
Download PDFIssue 05: The visibility is not the proof
The proof layer. Why every governance, accountability and AI framework needs the reconciliation underneath.
Download PDFIssue 04: The AI question your auditor will ask
CASS 15. When the first SUP 3 audit reads model-driven activity against the new regime, the operational evidence will need to come from somewhere.
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ReadCASS 15 six months on: what changed on the rec
The rules landed. The reconciliations moved. A plain-language note for the people running them.
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