AI and Corporate Actions Processing: The Benefits and Challenges

Corporate actions processing continues to be one of the most complex and error-prone functions across the back office, with large numbers of capital markets firms still overly reliant on manual processing and workarounds, and multiple fragmented systems and complications stemming from the variety of data sources and formats they consume.

Findings from a recent survey undertaken by WatersTechnology and SIX highlight a number of perennial challenges facing market participants, including high exception rates, reconciliation breaks and delays in event processing, all of which increase operational risk and cost.

Firms are also under growing pressure to improve the accuracy, scalability and levels of straight-through processing (STP) of their corporate actions functions as volumes and complexity continue to rise. However, artificial intelligence has emerged as a catalyst for change, with firms benefiting from the significant improvements around data ingestion, validation, exception management and workflow automation processes.

This webinar will examine how firms can leverage AI to modernize their corporate actions processing functions, while simultaneously reducing the need for manual intervention and developing more automated operating models.

Discussion points include:

Capital markets firms’ key operational pain points when processing corporate actions, and areas in which improved levels of automation can deliver the greatest impact
AI-driven use-cases, including data normalization, validation, exception management and workflow optimization
The barriers to AI adoption firms need to address, including data quality, integration and governance issues
The measures of success around corporate actions processing, including improved accuracy, increased STP rates and reduced operational risk and cost