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.
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?"
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.
We sit with your business. We find the operational problem costing you the most. We build the system that fixes it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Source systems
4 feedingThe engine pulls from these systems on schedule. Inactive sources are skipped for this report.
- Loan Book pullingCore banking · 1.2M rows
- General Ledger pullingNetSuite · 412k entries
- Transactions pullingReal-time stream · 8.4M/day
- Customer Master pullingKYC store · 92k subjects
- Donor CRMSalesforce NPSP · 4.8k records
- M&E DatabaseProgramme outcomes · 28k records
Validations
3 pass · 1 failEach rule from the regulator's rule pack runs against the pulled data. Cite, status, evidence, all retained.
- Completeness · passAll 137 BA200 line items populatedBA200 §schedule-1
- Consistency · passTier 1 capital = paid-up + reserves + R/ESARB Directive D7/2024
- Threshold · passCapital adequacy ratio ≥ 8.0%Basel III §CAR
- Threshold · failLiquidity coverage ratio ≥ 100%Basel III §LCR
Observed 96.4% · below regulatory floor
Output preview
XBRL- 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.
30-day stressed outflow modelled R 142M higher than HQLA stock at quarter close.
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Book a discovery callOne engine. Any regulator. Every figure traceable.
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.
Explore AutomationEvery 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.
Explore Audit TrailsCompleteness, 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.
Explore Anomaly DetectionNot the primary focus for this system.
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.
Systems we often build alongside this one.
- Reconciliation EngineStop chasing the agreement between systems. The engine matches the ledgers in the background and only surfaces what needs a human.
- Data Routing PipelineThe systems you already own, piped into one clean output, board pack, donor report, regulator return. The pipeline does the assembly that four people used to do over three days of email.
- Master Data HubOne canonical record per customer, supplier, product. Edit it once; every system downstream agrees within two seconds.
- Notification & Alert OrchestrationOne rule engine deciding who hears about what, on which channel, at what hour. The noise stops; the signal lands on the right person's phone.
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