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Trade Exception Routing Agent

Automatically analyzes, prioritizes, summarizes, and routes flagged trades, ensuring efficient and auditable exception management.

Exception handling within trade management processes is often manual, resource-intensive, and prone to inconsistency. High-risk or ambiguous trades may go unnoticed or experience delayed resolution, which creates process delays and can expose organizations to compliance risks. Relying on fragmented reviews and manual triage consumes team bandwidth, reducing overall operational productivity.

The Trade Exception Routing Agent fully automates exception management for trade requests by leveraging a broad array of structured and unstructured data sources. It identifies and flags high-risk or ambiguous trades by analyzing trade request data, internal risk assessments, policy compliance, audit logs, and supporting documentation, as well as external regulatory references and compliance guidance. The agent then quantitatively scores exceptions, generates concise contextual summaries with supporting evidence, recommends actions based on historical decisions and compliance guidance, and routes each case to the most appropriate reviewer or team. As part of this workflow, it also captures and records all underlying rationale, recommendations, and routing decisions as robust auditable metadata, ensuring full regulatory transparency.

With this agent, organizations markedly decrease the manual effort required for exception triage, reduce process bottlenecks, and improve exception transparency. Automated triage, summarization, and routing enhance employee productivity and process accuracy while delivering tangible cost savings. By maintaining a comprehensive audit trail, the workflow fully aligns with policy and regulatory requirements, resulting in a more agile and accountable trade management function.

Accuracy
TBD

Speed
TBD

Input Data Set

Sample of data set required for Trade Exception Routing Agent:

INTERNAL TRADE EXCEPTION REQUEST


Trade ID: 77491-QDSA
Date: 2023-10-26
Portfolio Manager: Jane Doe
Client Account: InnovateCorp Pension Fund (Acct: 98765-43)
Status: FLAGGED - REQUIRES MANUAL REVIEW




Trade Details:


    

  • Security: Quantum Dynamics SA
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  • Ticker: QDSA
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  • Market: Bovespa (Brazil)
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  • Side: BUY
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  • Order Type: Limit
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  • Quantity: 2,500,000 shares
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  • Limit Price: R$ 18.50
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  • Total Consideration (Est.): R$ 46,250,000
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Initial Pre-Trade Compliance Flags:


    

  • Flag 1: Liquidity Violation - Proposed quantity exceeds 25% of the 30-day Average Daily Volume (ADV).
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  • Flag 2: Concentration Breach - Post-trade position would represent 7.2% of the total portfolio value, exceeding the 5.0% single-issuer limit per client Investment Policy Statement (IPS).
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  • Flag 3: Jurisdiction Risk - Brazil is currently on the firm's 'Elevated Volatility Watchlist'.
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Portfolio Manager's Justification:
"Quantum Dynamics represents a significant long-term growth opportunity in the renewable energy components sector. The recent price dip offers a strategic entry point. The client representative, John Smith at InnovateCorp, is aware of our high-conviction stance and has expressed verbal interest in capitalizing on this opportunity despite the IPS concentration limit. We believe the market impact from the liquidity issue will be minimal if the order is worked over 2-3 days. We request an exception to proceed."




Attached Correspondence Snippet (Email from J. Smith, InnovateCorp):
Subject: Re: Quantum Dynamics SA
Date: 2023-10-25


"Hi Jane, Thanks for the update. We trust your judgment on QDSA. Let's be aggressive here as discussed. We are comfortable being overweight in this name for the quarter."

Deliverable Example

Sample output delivered by the Trade Exception Routing Agent:

Trade Exception Analysis Report


Trade ID: 77491-QDSA
Status: Exception Identified - Review Required
Priority: High
Risk Score: 88/100




1. Executive Summary


A BUY order for 2,500,000 shares of Quantum Dynamics SA (QDSA) for client InnovateCorp Pension Fund has been flagged for three critical policy breaches. The primary risks are significant portfolio over-concentration, violation of market liquidity parameters, and exposure to elevated jurisdictional risk. The portfolio manager's justification cites a strategic opportunity and references client correspondence, but the attached email does not constitute a formal waiver of the Investment Policy Statement (IPS). Immediate review by the Senior Compliance desk is required before execution.




2. Identified Exceptions and Risk Analysis






Policy ID
Policy Name
Breach Description
Severity
Supporting Evidence






POL-4.1.2
Client IPS - Concentration
Post-trade position of 7.2% exceeds the 5.0% single-issuer limit.
High
Client Account 98765-43 IPS Document, Section 3.1.




POL-7.3.1
Best Execution - Liquidity
Trade size is 28.4% of the security's 30-day ADV (25% limit).
High
Market Data Feed (ADV for QDSA: 8,800,000 shares).




RISK-11.2
Jurisdictional Monitoring
Security's domicile (Brazil) is on the 'Elevated Volatility Watchlist'.
Medium
Internal Risk Bulletin Q3-2023.








3. Contextual Analysis from Unstructured Data


    

  • Portfolio Manager Justification: The PM's note acknowledges the breaches but justifies the trade based on a strategic "high-conviction" assessment. This indicates deliberate, non-accidental breach intent.
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  • Client Correspondence: The snippet from John Smith (InnovateCorp) shows informal agreement ("trust your judgment," "be aggressive"). However, it lacks the specific acknowledgment of the 7.2% concentration breach or formal IPS waiver language required by policy POL-4.9.5 (Client Directives).
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4. Recommended Action & Routing


    

  • Recommendation: Modify and Approve.
      

    • Action 1: Reduce order quantity to 1,250,000 shares. This brings the concentration to ~5.5% (minor breach) and reduces the liquidity impact to ~14.2% of ADV (within policy).
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    • Action 2: Obtain explicit, written (email sufficient) sign-off from the client acknowledging and approving the revised ~5.5% concentration level, referencing their IPS.
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  • Rationale: The proposed modification balances the strategic goals of the PM with the firm's risk and compliance obligations. It solves the most critical liquidity breach and reduces the concentration breach to a more manageable level, contingent on documented client consent.
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  • Route To: Senior Compliance Desk (Americas)
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  • Assigned Reviewer: Johnathan Chen (Next Available Tier 2 Reviewer)
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Opportunity to impact key functional area KPIs

Risk Reduction
Employee Productivity
Process Cycle Time
Regulatory Compliance

By systematically analyzing all trade data against risk and compliance rules, the agent proactively isolates high-risk exceptions before they create financial or regulatory exposure.

Proactively Identify High-Risk Trades
  • Analyzes trade requests against internal policies and external regulations.
  • Scores exceptions quantitatively based on a broad array of data sources.
  • Flags ambiguous or non-compliant trade requests in real-time.
Strengthen Decision Governance
  • Recommends specific actions based on historical resolutions and compliance guidance.
  • Routes complex cases directly to senior reviewers or specialized teams.
  • Provides evidence-backed summaries to support informed reviewer decisions.

By eliminating manual triage and summarizing complex data, the agent frees up operations teams to focus on high-value analysis and strategic resolution tasks.

Automate Manual Triage and Review
  • Ingests and processes structured and unstructured trade documentation.
  • Categorizes and prioritizes exceptions automatically without human intervention.
  • Reduces time spent on initial review and information gathering.
Empower Teams with Contextual Insights
  • Generates concise summaries explaining the root cause of each exception.
  • Consolidates relevant data from risk assessments, audit logs, and policies.
  • Equips reviewers with all necessary information in a single interface.

Through intelligent automation of exception detection, scoring, and routing, the agent significantly reduces resolution times and eliminates costly process bottlenecks from trade operations.

Accelerate Exception Resolution
  • Instantly routes flagged trades to the most appropriate team for action.
  • Minimizes delays caused by incorrect assignments or manual handoffs.
  • Provides clear, actionable recommendations to speed up the decision process.
Eliminate Processing Bottlenecks
  • Prevents backlogs by continuously processing incoming trade exception queues.
  • Handles high volumes of exceptions without scaling manual headcount.
  • Ensures a consistent flow of work through the exception management pipeline.

By creating a fully documented and auditable record of every decision, the agent ensures that all exception handling aligns perfectly with internal policies and external regulations.

Enforce Consistent Policy Application
  • Applies standardized risk models and compliance rules to every transaction.
  • Eliminates the variability and bias inherent in manual reviews.
  • References the latest regulatory guidance to ensure up-to-date compliance checks.
Maintain a Comprehensive Audit Trail
  • Captures and records all underlying rationale for routing decisions.
  • Logs all recommendations, actions taken, and final resolutions.
  • Creates robust, auditable metadata for full regulatory transparency.

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