How AI is speeding up financial trading checks by 90%
Chatham Financial, a company that helps banks manage investments, is using AI to check trades in seconds instead of half an hour. Here's what that means for the finance world.
Financial firms have a problem: every trade needs to be checked carefully before it goes through. At Chatham Financial — a company that helps banks and investment firms manage their portfolios — this used to take about 30 minutes per trade. Now, with new AI technology from OpenAI, they've cut that time down to under 4 minutes.
Chatham is using two AI tools to do this: Codex (which helps computers understand and write instructions) and GPT-5.6 (an advanced language model — think of it as software that understands text the way humans do, but much faster). These tools help Chatham redesign how their teams work, automating the boring, repetitive parts of checking trades so humans can focus on the tricky problems that need real judgment.
Why does this matter? Faster trade checking means money can move more quickly through markets. It also frees up financial workers to do more valuable work instead of staring at screens for hours checking the same details over and over. For Chatham's clients — the big banks and investment firms — it means smoother operations and lower costs. It's a real-world example of how AI isn't about replacing people; it's about letting them work smarter.
Original source: OpenAI Blog