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Compliance & Regulatory Reporting Engine

The submissions regulators, auditors, donors, and boards expect, assembled from the data you already generate, no quarter-end scramble.

Industry
Banks, NGOs, regulated operators, finance teams
Best for
Teams whose quarter-end is a fortnight of spreadsheets, late nights, and "where did this number come from?"
In short

What is regulatory reporting automation?

Regulatory reporting automation assembles the submissions regulators, auditors, donors, and boards expect directly from the systems that already hold the data, validating each figure live against the rule pack and tracing it back to its source row. It replaces a quarter-end scramble across spreadsheets with a controlled, evidenced process auditors can follow in seconds.

How we work

We sit with your business. We find the operational problem costing you the most. We build the system that fixes it.

The Problem

Every quarter the same scramble. Numbers pulled by hand from the loan book, the GL, the CRM. A finance lead reconciling six spreadsheets at 11pm, signing off on figures they don't fully trust. The auditor asks where a number came from and nobody can answer for ninety minutes. The cost of one wrong submission isn't paperwork. It's a SARB penalty, a R10M POPIA fine, or a donor walking back next year's grant.

What We Built

A reporting engine that knows which systems each submission draws from and pulls the data itself. Validations run live against the regulator's rule pack. Exceptions surface with a one-line cause and a human action. The same engine produces a banking return, an NGO donor report, a POPIA filing, or a tax submission. Every figure traces back to its source row.

What Changed

Quarter-end stopped being a fortnight of late nights. The same engine, repointed at different sources and rule packs, now produces four kinds of submission. Auditors ask where a figure came from. They get an answer in seconds, the system already knew.

What does a compliance and regulatory reporting engine do?

Under South Africa’s POPIA, a wrong or late submission can carry penalties of up to R10 million or 10 years’ imprisonment.

Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, ss. 107 & 109
More on audit trails
Example deployment

One example, a South African bank, NGO and finance team in scope. Yours would point at the submissions your team actually files, with the rule packs your regulators publish.

Compliance & Regulatory Reporting

One engine. Four submissions. Every figure traceable.

Pick a report. Watch the engine pull from the source systems, validate against the regulator's rule pack, and assemble the submission. Then change the quarter and watch it run again.

Quarter

Source systems

4 feeding

The engine pulls from these systems on schedule. Inactive sources are skipped for this report.

  • Loan Book pulling
    Core banking · 1.2M rows
  • General Ledger pulling
    NetSuite · 412k entries
  • Transactions pulling
    Real-time stream · 8.4M/day
  • Customer Master pulling
    KYC store · 92k subjects
  • Donor CRM
    Salesforce NPSP · 4.8k records
  • M&E Database
    Programme outcomes · 28k records
Last run Q1 · 2.3s wall-clock

Validations

3 pass · 1 fail

Each rule from the regulator's rule pack runs against the pulled data. Cite, status, evidence, all retained.

  • Completeness · pass
    All 137 BA200 line items populated
    BA200 §schedule-1
  • Consistency · pass
    Tier 1 capital = paid-up + reserves + R/E
    SARB Directive D7/2024
  • Threshold · pass
    Capital adequacy ratio ≥ 8.0%
    Basel III §CAR
  • Threshold · fail
    Liquidity coverage ratio ≥ 100%
    Basel III §LCR

    Observed 96.4% · below regulatory floor

Output preview

XBRL
Banking regulatory submission
BA200 quarterly return · SARB · Q1 2026
  • Capital adequacy ratio14.2%
  • Tier 1 capitalR 2.84B
  • Risk-weighted assetsR 20.00B
  • Liquidity coverage ratio96.4%
  • Non-performing loans3.1%

Click any figure to unroll its lineage, source system, source rows, applicable rule and the exact calculation.

Exceptions for human review · 1 open
LCR below regulatory floor

30-day stressed outflow modelled R 142M higher than HQLA stock at quarter close.

Owner · Treasury, N. Mokoena

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How it fits the three pillars

One engine. Any regulator. Every figure traceable.

Automation

The engine pulls from every source system on a schedule. It applies the rule pack for the chosen report and assembles the final submission. XBRL, PDF, or Excel, without anyone keying a number.

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Audit Trails

Every figure carries its lineage: which source system, which row, which rule applied. Click any cell of the output and the audit trail unrolls. Submissions stand up to a regulator months later.

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Anomaly Detection

Completeness, consistency, threshold, and reporting checks run as data lands. Variances surface before submission, not after. The finance team sees what the regulator will see, and acts on it first.

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Analytics

Not the primary focus for this system.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can POPIA and regulatory reporting be automated?
Yes. A reporting engine knows which systems each submission draws from, pulls the data itself, and validates it against the regulator’s rule pack. The same engine can produce a SARB banking return, a POPIA filing, an NGO donor report, or a tax submission, each figure traced to the source row that produced it.
How does automated reporting reduce compliance risk?
It removes the hand-keyed spreadsheet step where wrong numbers creep in. Validations run live, exceptions surface with a one-line cause and a human action, and every figure traces to its source. A wrong submission’s cost, a SARB penalty, a POPIA fine, a donor walking, is met with an evidenced, repeatable process.
What reports can the engine produce?
Banking regulatory returns, POPIA filings, tax submissions, and donor reports, any recurring submission assembled from operational data. The same engine, repointed at different sources and rule packs, produces several kinds of report, so each new return reuses the validated pipeline rather than starting from scratch.
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