← All insights
Regulatory reporting2 min read

Regulatory reporting is a process, not a template

Behind every submitted number sits a chain of definitions, rules, code, spreadsheets and people. That chain is where the evidence lives.

Regulatory reporting is often discussed as if the template were the problem. The template is only the endpoint. Behind each submitted number sits a process: source systems, definitions, mappings, transformation rules in code, validation checks, manual adjustments, ownership and approvals.

That process is documented in one place and run in another. The documentation says how the figure should be produced. The code and the spreadsheets say how it is produced. When the two differ, nobody sees it until a supervisor asks.

The question behind the question

A regulator or auditor does not stop at the template. They ask where the number came from, which rule shaped it, who changed it and why. Answering today means reconstructing the process by hand, every time, for every mandate.

Reporting from process context

xflow connects each reported figure to the process that produces it: the objective it answers to, the steps it passes through, the code and spreadsheets that carry those steps, and the people who own them. Real data can then be run through that process and the result checked against the reported figure.

The reporting question becomes a lookup rather than a project, and the same context carries forward to the next mandate, the next review and the next change.

Request a demo

Which number matters most to you?

Tell us the number and we will expose the process context on which it is built: the objective it serves, and the code, data, spreadsheets and people that produce it.

Request a demo