Each year, global finance spends £58 billion on corporate actions processing, with costs rising 10% annually and automation below 40%. Reliance on manual validation, fragmented systems and inconsistent data flows results in widespread inefficiency, high risk and unnecessary expense. Recent industry initiatives using blockchain and AI, similar to the Chainlink-led collaboration involving Swift, DTCC and S&P Global, demonstrate that a unified platform with verified, standardised data can dramatically reduce costs, operational risks and errors. The future lies in real-time, automated and cryptographically attested corporate actions across both traditional and tokenised asset markets.

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