Market orchestration for financial and physical assets

High-stakes markets can’t run on “probably right.”

Agora is deterministic infrastructure for environments where being wrong means regulatory fines, counterparty losses, and lost institutional credibility.

what we do

One platform. Three ways it works for you.

Agora digitises assets, reasons across data, and orchestrates the workflows that move them. Whether your assets are physical, financial, or both.

Digital twins

A machine-readable representation of every asset — its provenance, custody, condition, and obligations — built from the systems and records that already attest to it.

Intelligence layer

Reasoning across the data your existing systems hold but cannot connect. Domain rules encoded, relationships understood, answers defensible.

Workflow orchestration

Multi-party processes that run exactly as agreed. Every condition checked, every action governed, every outcome on the record.

capabilities

Our intelligent layer works alongside your existing stack.

Interoperability

Works seamlessly across your existing systems. No rebuilds, no disruption, just immediate integration.

FCA Regulated

Built within a regulated framework, giving you confidence in compliance, security, and trust.

Multimodality

Transforms complex data — documents, files, and formats — into structured, usable intelligence.

DLT independent

Built to work with any distributed ledger (blockchain) — or none. Your infrastructure choices, not ours.

sectors

We help prove trust across financial and physical markets.

Agora turns physical provenance into structured, machine-readable truth — making assets, ownership, and obligations verifiable across systems, counterparties, and regulatory environments.

Originated & Governed

The document is not the deal. It is every counterparty's starting point for interpreting it differently.

From closing through every amendment, covenant test, and lifecycle event, a complex instrument exists simultaneously across parties who each hold a version of it.

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Originated & Governed

The document is not the deal. It is every counterparty's starting point for interpreting it differently.

From closing through every amendment, covenant test, and lifecycle event, a complex instrument exists simultaneously across parties who each hold a version of it.

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Extracted & Transformed

The asset has a record. It does not have an answer.
The infrastructure to capture provenance data exists. What doesn't exist is the intelligence layer that reasons across it.

Agora is the reasoning layer that turns provenance records into operational intelligence.

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Extracted & Transformed

The asset has a record. It does not have an answer.
The infrastructure to capture provenance data exists. What doesn't exist is the intelligence layer that reasons across it.

Agora is the reasoning layer that turns provenance records into operational intelligence.

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Owned & Exchanged

Everyone knows who holds the asset. Nobody can prove who owns it.

In any custody structure of real scale, the distance between physical possession and provable legal title grows with every pledge, every repo, every allocation. When a stress event arrives, the question is not where the asset is. It is whether someone else already has a claim your systems do not reflect.

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Owned & Exchanged

Everyone knows who holds the asset. Nobody can prove who owns it.

In any custody structure of real scale, the distance between physical possession and provable legal title grows with every pledge, every repo, every allocation. When a stress event arrives, the question is not where the asset is. It is whether someone else already has a claim your systems do not reflect.

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Verified & Trusted

The certificate is not the proof. It is a snapshot of a moment that has already passed.

Certification regimes were built for periodic inspection in a world where scrutiny was infrequent. That world is ending. EUDR, conflict mineral due diligence, institutional ESG mandates.

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Verified & Trusted

The certificate is not the proof. It is a snapshot of a moment that has already passed.

Certification regimes were built for periodic inspection in a world where scrutiny was infrequent. That world is ending. EUDR, conflict mineral due diligence, institutional ESG mandates.

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how it works

Bring any asset to market by describing it — not rebuilding the software.

Banks and issuers bring many different kinds of bond to market — from straightforward government debt to complex, tailored products. The rules differ between countries and regulators, and every party to an issuance has its own requirements.

The usual way is brittle

The usual approach is one large piece of software with a special case built in for every exception. It is slow to change, and when something new arrives that it was not built for, the work starts again.

Describe each asset once

Agora works differently. Each kind of bond is described once — what it is, who is involved, and the steps it goes through.

Layer requirements, don’t duplicate

Each party’s own requirements are added on top of that shared description, rather than built as a separate copy to maintain.

Change a description, not the code

Bringing a new product to market, tailoring it for the parties involved, or changing something already running means editing a description — not writing new software.

Fast by default

A new kind of asset can be defined and brought to market in a fraction of the time a from-scratch build would take, because the common parts are already there and only the differences need describing.

Any asset, digital or physical

The same engine handles a purely digital instrument such as a bond, or a digital twin — a live record of a physical thing such as a bar of gold. A new market becomes a modelling task, not a rebuild.

WHY AGORA

Not another vendor.
A structural advantage.

What separates Agora from platforms, consultancies, and build-it-yourself approaches.

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about us

Built for institutions. Led by practitioners.

Founded in London by a team with decades inside the institutions we now serve — investment banks, supranational issuers, and regulated intermediaries. We built and proved our platform in debt capital markets, where every transaction is audited and every failure carries consequence.

Our Leaders.

Former Co-head of Credit Markets at Citi and Chairman of Capital Markets at Barclays.

Previously Salomon Brothers and Citi.

Charles Berman

CEO, Co-Founder

Former CTO and Managing Director at Ipreo — Fixed Income, EMEA and Asia.

Tony Cleverley

CPTO, Co-Founder

Former Partner at Slaughter and May (20+ years).

Dermot Rice

General Counsel, Director, Head of Risk

get in touch

Ready to request a 30-minute briefing? Let's talk.

We will map your workflow before the call, walk you through the reasoning gaps your current systems cannot close, and show you where deterministic intelligence changes the economics.

Send an email

inq@agoradcm.com

get in touch

Ready to request a 30-minute briefing? Let's talk.

We will map your workflow before the call, walk you through the reasoning gaps your current systems cannot close, and show you where deterministic intelligence changes the economics.

Send an email

inq@agoradcm.com

get in touch

Ready to request a 30-minute briefing? Let's talk.

We will map your workflow before the call, walk you through the reasoning gaps your current systems cannot close, and show you where deterministic intelligence changes the economics.

Send an email

inq@agoradcm.com

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