Corporate Actions Monitor

Corporate action announcements arrive as ISO 15022/20022 messages, vendor feeds, exchange PDFs, and custodian emails — and they routinely disagree with each other. Analysts burn hours cross-referencing sources to establish the truth while election deadlines on voluntary events tick down.

One validated record per event

This solution ingests every channel, normalizes each announcement into a common event structure, and compares sources field by field. Where sources agree, the validated master record — the golden copy — builds itself. Where they conflict, the discrepancy is isolated and routed to a senior analyst with every version presented side by side. Standard mandatory events process touchless; analyst time goes only to the events that genuinely need judgment, and every one of those calls is human-approved before it moves downstream.

Complex events are where manual processing hurts most. A misread ratio on a rights issue, a missed deadline on a Dutch auction or spin-off — each is a direct financial liability. The platform validates dates, checks ratios, and reads the narrative text of announcements against prospectus terms, flagging anything that deviates from the historical pattern for that event type.

Lineage down to the field

Every field in the master record carries lineage to the source document that supplied it, so an auditor — or a doubtful trader — can trace any date or ratio back to the original announcement in seconds. The same validated record feeds trading desks, risk teams, and client reporting at the same time, replacing the copy-paste chains that let versions drift. Seasonal spikes in dividend and proxy season are absorbed by the platform rather than by temporary staff, and the audit trail is a by-product of normal operation, ready the moment anyone asks.