A method and system for centralized automated reconciliation of investment
manager and related custody accounts makes use of computer hardware and
software in a service bureau environment to receive information and
records electronically from fund managers and custodian banks in
different formats, to reformat the files for inputting to the system, and
to perform the reconciliation process in a uniform manner. The system
also allows one or both of fund managers and custodians to establish
matching rules, to view the results of the matching process, to track the
investigation process for unmatched records, and to manually match
unmatched records.