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Compliance team spending most of their week pulling data from operational systems manually to assemble regulatory reports that are due on a fixed schedule every month?
Scaling into new regulated markets but your current compliance processes are entirely manual, making it impossible to demonstrate audit-ready controls to a regulator on short notice?
Custom compliance software for fintech companies, banks, and financial services firms -- regulatory reporting automation, AML transaction monitoring, GDPR data privacy, risk and control frameworks, and policy management built around your specific regulatory obligations.
Compliance in financial services is not a one-time project. It is an ongoing operational function with reporting deadlines, monitoring obligations, audit requirements, and a regulatory landscape that changes every year.
Automated regulatory report generation for FCA, PRA, DORA, FinCEN, OCC, SEC, and regional regulators
AML transaction monitoring with SAR/STR workflow and FATF Travel Rule compliance
GDPR data subject request automation, consent management, and breach notification workflow
Risk and control framework with three-lines-of-defence workflow and risk appetite breach alerts
RaftLabs builds custom fintech compliance software for banks, fintech companies, and financial services firms. Core components include regulatory reporting automation for FCA, PRA, DORA, FinCEN, OCC, SEC, and regional regulators, AML transaction monitoring with SAR and STR workflow, FATF Travel Rule compliance, GDPR and data privacy compliance with DSR automation, risk and control frameworks with three-lines-of-defence workflow, and compliance training with attestation tracking. Frameworks covered include FCA, PRA, DORA, FinCEN, FATF, and GDPR. Delivery takes 10 to 16 weeks at a fixed cost.
Financial services regulation is volume work. Reporting deadlines are fixed. AML monitoring is continuous. GDPR obligations apply to every customer record. Risk registers need updating as the business changes. When these processes run on spreadsheets and email threads, your compliance team spends most of their time on data gathering -- extracting numbers from operational systems, formatting reports, chasing sign-off -- rather than on the analysis and judgement that compliance actually requires. Manual processes also create audit risk: when a regulator asks for evidence, the evidence needs to exist and be retrievable in hours, not days.
Purpose-built compliance software changes the ratio. Recurring reports are generated automatically from your operational data sources, formatted to the regulator's schema, and queued for review rather than built from scratch each cycle. Audit-ready evidence is captured at the point of every decision -- not reconstructed after the fact. Compliance posture is visible in real time through dashboards that surface open issues, upcoming deadlines, and breach alerts, rather than being assessed quarterly when the next manual review cycle runs.
RaftLabs builds compliance software for fintech companies scaling into regulated markets, banks replacing manual compliance processes with purpose-built tooling, and financial services firms building compliance infrastructure alongside product growth.
Automated report generation pulls data from your operational systems -- core banking, payment platform, transaction ledger, customer database -- on a schedule aligned to your reporting obligations. Reports are formatted to the schema required by your regulator: FCA returns (GABRIEL/RegData), PRA regulatory reporting, DORA operational resilience reports, FinCEN Currency Transaction Reports and Suspicious Activity Reports, OCC reports, SEC filings, and regional regulator formats. Every report has a submission audit trail: who approved it, when it was submitted, and the version history so you can show a regulator exactly what was filed and when. Version control for regulatory report history means you can retrieve any past filing in its original form. Alerting fires when a report deadline is approaching and when source data extraction fails, so nothing is missed in a high-volume reporting calendar.
Ongoing monitoring runs your customer transaction activity against AML typologies on a continuous basis. Alert generation combines threshold-based rules -- transactions above specified amounts, cash-intensive activity, rapid account turnover -- with ML-based pattern detection that surfaces structuring, layering, and integration patterns that rule thresholds would miss. The Suspicious Activity Report workflow manages the full SAR lifecycle: alert triage, investigation notes, internal escalation, draft SAR generation pre-populated with the relevant transaction and customer data, and submission record keeping. Suspicious Transaction Report workflow covers STR obligations for jurisdictions that use the STR format. FATF Travel Rule compliance for crypto asset transfers and international wire transfers captures and transmits originator and beneficiary data above threshold amounts to counterparty institutions, with the messaging format configured for the counterparty's compliance system. Watchlist screening runs on transaction counterparties as well as account holders.
A compliance policy library holds every policy document in version-controlled storage, so the current version is always the one your team and auditors see, and the full version history is available for historical reference. Employee policy attestation workflows distribute new and updated policies to the relevant staff groups, track who has read and acknowledged each policy, send reminders to staff who have not completed attestation within the deadline, and produce completion reports for compliance officers and senior management. Gap analysis tools map your internal policies against the regulatory frameworks you operate under -- FCA Handbook, PRA Rulebook, DORA, GDPR -- and flag areas where your policy library does not cover a requirement. Periodic review reminders fire on the schedule your compliance calendar requires, keeping policies current rather than letting them drift out of date. All policy documentation is stored in audit-ready format with reviewer records.
Data subject request workflow automation handles the three most common GDPR requests: subject access requests (providing a copy of all personal data held), erasure requests (right to be forgotten, with the legal basis checks that determine whether erasure applies), and data portability requests (providing data in a machine-readable format). Each request type has a configurable workflow with deadline tracking, data retrieval from all connected systems, legal basis review, and response generation. Consent management tracks each consent record at the granular purpose level -- marketing, analytics, third-party sharing -- with timestamps and consent method, so you can demonstrate to a regulator exactly what was consented to and when. Data retention policy enforcement runs automated deletion jobs when records pass their retention period. Cross-border transfer controls document the legal mechanism for each transfer -- Standard Contractual Clauses, adequacy decision, Binding Corporate Rules -- and flag transfers that lack a documented basis. Breach notification workflow generates the regulator communication with the required data fields and tracks the 72-hour notification deadline.
The risk register records every identified risk with its likelihood, impact, inherent risk score, the controls in place, and the residual risk score after controls are applied. Control mapping links each control to the risks it mitigates and the regulatory requirements it addresses, so you can see at a glance whether a regulatory change leaves any risk without adequate coverage. Control testing workflows assign testing tasks to control owners on the required schedule, capture test results and evidence, and update control effectiveness ratings. Residual risk scoring recalculates automatically when controls are tested and their effectiveness ratings change. Risk appetite breach alerts fire when any residual risk score exceeds the thresholds your board has approved. The three-lines-of-defence workflow separates first-line control owner activity, second-line compliance team oversight, and third-line internal audit access, with appropriate data visibility for each role so audit independence is maintained.
Mandatory compliance training modules are delivered through the platform and tracked per employee: which modules are required for each role, who has completed each module, completion date, score where the module includes an assessment, and certificate generation for regulatory exam preparation. Real-time completion dashboards give compliance officers a live view of completion rates by team, department, and location -- not a monthly report. Escalation logic fires when completion rates fall below the threshold you set, routing alerts to the relevant manager and to the compliance team for follow-up. Regulatory exam preparation modules support staff working toward qualifications required by your regulator -- FCA-specific requirements, PRA Senior Managers and Certification Regime training obligations. All training records are stored with the evidence needed for a regulatory inspection.
Frequently asked questions
The frameworks we most commonly build for are FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) regulations for UK-regulated firms, PRA (Prudential Regulation Authority) requirements for UK banks and insurers, DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) for EU financial entities, FinCEN and OCC requirements for US money services businesses and banks, SEC reporting obligations for US registered investment advisers and broker-dealers, GDPR and the UK GDPR for data privacy obligations, FATF Recommendation 16 (the Travel Rule) for virtual asset service providers and cross-border wire transfers, and regional AML frameworks for firms operating across multiple jurisdictions. We do not cover every regulation in every jurisdiction out of the box -- we scope the specific frameworks relevant to your business during discovery and build the reporting and monitoring logic around those requirements. Regulatory interpretation is your qualified legal counsel's domain; we build the software that implements what your compliance programme requires.
Generic GRC platforms -- Archer, ServiceNow GRC, OneTrust -- are broad tools built to cover many industries and risk frameworks. They are configurable but rarely pre-built for the specific reporting schemas, data sources, and workflow requirements of financial services regulation. A financial services compliance software build is purpose-built around your specific regulator, your operational data sources, and your compliance team's workflow. The regulatory report templates are built to the exact schema your regulator expects. The AML monitoring logic is calibrated to your transaction data and customer mix. The risk framework reflects your internal three-lines-of-defence structure. The result is software that your compliance team can actually use without extensive platform configuration expertise, and that produces audit-ready outputs without manual reformatting.
Yes. Compliance software needs to read data from wherever it lives in your organisation -- core banking platform, payment ledger, customer database, HR system for training records, document management system. We build integrations via REST APIs, message queues, database connectors, or file-based data exchange depending on what your existing systems support. Most modern core banking platforms and payment systems have API layers that support data extraction for compliance purposes. Older systems with limited API coverage sometimes require a data extraction layer that handles scheduled pulls and data transformation. We scope the integration complexity during discovery, and the integration work is included in the fixed cost rather than priced separately as an unknown variable.
A focused build covering one or two compliance functions -- regulatory reporting automation for a specific set of reports, or AML monitoring with SAR workflow -- typically takes 10 to 12 weeks. A broader platform covering reporting, AML monitoring, GDPR DSR workflow, risk register, and policy management typically takes 14 to 16 weeks. The largest time variables are the number of regulatory report formats to build, the complexity of the AML monitoring logic, and the number of operational systems to integrate for data sourcing. We scope the timeline during discovery based on your specific requirements and commit to it as part of the fixed-cost engagement.
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Tell us which regulations apply to your business, where the manual work is, and what your compliance team spends most time on. We'll scope a system and give you a fixed cost.