RegAhead

Regulator-First Intelligence Platform

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RegAhead is the regulator-first risk intelligence platform for banks, insurers, NBFCs, and fintechs — converting global regulatory mandates into continuously monitored controls, powered by sovereign AI and built for audit-grade accountability.

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One obligation, traced end to end. Hover any stage of the chain.

70%
Reduction in compliance opex spend

Across BFSI implementation benchmarks

65%
Faster third-party due diligence

Automated KYP & AI-led review vs. manual baseline

200+
Regulatory controls mapped per jurisdiction

RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, ECB, EBA, FCA, FED; ISO 27001, GDPR, DPDP, SOC 2

99.9%
SLA-backed platform availability

Multi-region cloud with disaster recovery

The Regulatory Reality

Regulatory complexity is compounding. Static compliance cannot keep up.

In the past 24 months the global regulatory environment for financial institutions has shifted structurally — and most institutions are still tracking it in spreadsheets.

  • DORAEnforced 17 Jan 2025
  • RBIRevised IT Outsourcing
  • DPDPAct 2023
  • ISO 42001:2023 AI MS

Regulatory Velocity

RBI, DORA, DPDP, MAS, and ISO 42001 all issued or revised major outsourcing and AI governance obligations inside the same 18-month window. Manual process cannot track, interpret, and operationalise change at that speed.

five frameworks · one 18-month window

Third-Party Concentration Risk

The average BFSI institution manages 200+ active technology vendors and outsourced providers. Concentration risk, fourth-party dependencies, and supply-chain exposure do not surface in a periodic questionnaire.

200+ vendors · risk on a critical few

Audit & Supervisory Expectations

Regulators increasingly expect live evidence of control effectiveness, not point-in-time snapshots. The gap between what a compliance team can demonstrate and what an examiner expects widens with every supervisory cycle.

live proof · not snapshots

The compliance function does not need a more sophisticated checklist. It needs an operational intelligence layer — one that converts regulatory obligations into continuously monitored controls, alerts teams to live risk events, and produces audit-ready evidence without a manual reporting cycle.

Built On

Three uncompromising principles.

Not a generic risk platform with a compliance module bolted on. Every layer of RegAhead is built around these three commitments.

Pillar IRegulator-First

Every control, workflow, assessment, and report starts with a specific regulatory obligation not a generic risk framework imported from elsewhere.

  • The Global Compliance Control Knowledge Graph maps regulators → frameworks → clauses → controls → test evidence, jurisdiction by jurisdiction
  • RBI IT Outsourcing Directions, DORA, MAS TRM, IRDAI, HKMA, SAMA — natively mapped, not retrofitted
  • Audit evidence traces directly to the regulatory clause it satisfies — defensible in supervisory examinations
  • Regulatory change triggers automatic control gap analysis, not a manual review cycle
Pillar IIReal-Time Risk Intelligence

The static compliance checklist is replaced with continuous, always-on surveillance across your third-party ecosystem, group entities, and regulatory horizon.

  • 24/7 automated monitoring of partner risk signals — financial health, cyber posture, regulatory status, operational incidents
  • Predictive risk alerts surface emerging threats before they become material events
  • KRI dashboards and compliance posture views — real-time, not end-of-quarter
  • Board and regulator-ready reports generated on demand, not after a four-week manual cycle
Pillar IIISovereign AI

In BFSI, AI must be explainable, auditable, and sovereign. Inference runs on private expert Small Language Models no data leaves your perimeter for processing by public AI systems.

  • Private expert SLMs — domain-trained, not generic LLMs repurposed for compliance
  • BYOK encryption with HSM-secured key management
  • On-premise and private cloud deployment — full data residency compliance
  • Every AI output is traceable, explainable, and carries a human-in-the-loop validation step

The Knowledge Graph

  1. L1 · Country / JurisdictionThe sovereign jurisdiction whose law applies.
  2. L2 · RegulatorThe supervisory authority within that jurisdiction.
  3. L3 · Regulatory FrameworkThe specific direction, regulation, or standard.
  4. L4 · Regulatory ClauseThe specific Article, Section, or Paragraph of the regulation.
  5. L5 · Control RequirementThe compliance obligation that clause imposes.
  6. L6 · Test EvidenceWhat satisfies the control.
  7. L7 · Control Testing ChecklistThe audit steps an examiner would take to verify that evidence.
  8. L8 · InterconnectionsCross-framework links between equivalent clauses.

Cross-framework links

  • DORA Art. 30 ↔ RBI IT Outsourcing §5
  • ISO 27001 A.15.1 ↔ MAS TRM §5
  • one control, four frameworks satisfied
  • evidence tested once, mapped everywhere

One Platform

Five dimensions of risk intelligence, one shared spine.

Not a module stack. Every application below reads and writes the same compliance knowledge graph, the same sovereign AI layer, and the same audit evidence store.

Third-Party Risk Management

The regulator-first TPRM platform for BFSI. Automates the full vendor lifecycle — from Know Your Partner to continuous risk monitoring — with 200+ regulatory controls mapped per jurisdiction.

  • AI-led due diligence: document validation, legal anomaly detection, financial health scoring
  • RBI IT/ITeS Outsourcing Directions — natively mapped, not retrofitted
  • DORA ICT third-party risk — Article 28–44 obligations built into the workflow
  • 65% faster onboarding. 70% reduction in compliance operational cost.
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  • Live monitored
  • Audit-linked
  • Sovereign AI
  1. TPRM · PartnerHubVendor lifecycle from KYP through continuous monitoring.
  2. Group · ReGroupConsolidated posture across subsidiaries and holding entities.
  3. Change · RegWatchCircular tracking with automated gap analysis against live controls.
  4. Query · RegIQNatural-language answers across all three data surfaces.
  5. ESG · ResurgentBRSR, TCFD, and SASB reporting on the same control spine.

Cross-framework links

  • RegIQ answers from PartnerHub control data
  • Resurgent rolls up through ReGroup's entity tree
  • RegWatch gaps land as PartnerHub control changes
  • one evidence store · every module cites it

AI you can defend in front of a regulator

Sovereign AI, designed for the regulatory demands of BFSI.

Most AI platforms process compliance data through shared public cloud infrastructure and general-purpose models. For a BFSI institution that is not an acceptable risk. Every inference here runs inside your environment. Your keys, your models, your data.

INSTITUTION PERIMETER · IN-COUNTRY DEPLOYMENTZERO EGRESS · NO PUBLIC LLMPRIVATE SLMINFERENCEHSM · BYOKKEYS NEVER LEAVEHUMAN-IN-LOOPEXPERT VALIDATIONAUDIT LEDGEREVERY INFERENCE LOGGED

Every component of the inference path, inside your boundary. Hover any node.

Nothing leaves the perimeter. Not the data, not the keys, not the question.

The boundary is architectural, not contractual. Inference runs on a private model inside your deployment, keys stay in your HSM, and every call is written to an audit ledger you own — which is what makes the output defensible when an examiner asks how a rating was reached.

Private Expert SLMs

Domain-trained on BFSI regulatory and risk frameworks — not general-purpose LLMs repurposed for compliance. Outputs are specific, defensible, explainable.

BYOK Encryption

Bring Your Own Key encryption with HSM-secured key management. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit under keys that never leave your HSM boundary.

Zero Public Cloud Processing

No regulatory data, assessment result, or audit evidence is processed by public AI systems. Inference happens entirely within your deployment boundary.

On-Premise Deployment

Available on-premise and as private cloud for institutions with strict residency requirements — India localisation, EU data boundary, MAS cloud guidance.

Human-in-the-Loop Governance

Every AI recommendation, risk rating, and control assessment carries a human validation step. Regulatory defensibility requires that AI assists expert judgment rather than replacing it.

Explainable & Auditable

Every output includes a reasoning chain aligned to the clause, control requirement, and evidence source it drew upon. Audit logs capture every inference event.

Coverage

50+ frameworks, mapped clause by clause.

Not a control library with a jurisdiction filter. Each framework is mapped to the specific clauses it imposes, and the Knowledge Graph is updated as those clauses are revised.

  • RBIIndia

    IT & ITeS Outsourcing Directions, 2023

  • DORAEU

    ICT third-party risk, Articles 28–44

  • MASSingapore

    Technology Risk Management

  • IRDAIIndia

    Insurer outsourcing guidelines

  • HKMAHong Kong

    Supervisory policy manual

  • SAMASaudi Arabia

    Cyber security framework

  • DPDPIndia

    Digital Personal Data Protection Act

  • ISO 42001Global

    AI management systems, 2023

  • ISO 27001Global

    Information security controls

  • SEBIIndia

    BRSR Core & listed-entity disclosure

  • GDPREU

    Processing & transfer obligations

  • SOXUS

    Sections 302 and 404

Built For

Every regulated corner of BFSI.

Banks & Financial Services

Scheduled commercial banks, small finance banks, payments banks, co-operative banks, and DFIs managing IT outsourcing, third-party risk, and group-wide obligations under RBI, SEBI, and DORA.

Insurance Companies

Life, general, and health insurers managing vendor risk across policyholder data custodians, claims processors, and distribution technology partners under IRDAI and DPDP.

NBFCs & Lending

NBFC layers, MFIs, housing finance companies, and credit information companies with obligations around digital lending partners, co-lending arrangements, and outsourced credit functions.

Fintechs & Payment Processors

Payment aggregators, wallets, lending platforms, and infrastructure fintechs navigating PPI guidelines, PA-PG regulations, and an expanding RBI regulatory perimeter.

ROI & business case

Returns measured on three axes, with payback under twelve months.

70%Cost
Reduction in compliance operational cost through automation of due diligence, assessment, monitoring, and reporting.
65%Speed
Faster third-party onboarding, without loosening compliance rigour.
<12moPayback
Typical payback period for enterprise deployment. Continuous monitoring replaces annual assessment, cutting the probability of material regulatory findings.
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A standard TPRM deployment with RBI IT Outsourcing control mapping, partner onboarding workflows, and risk monitoring is operational in 4 weeks. Full platform deployment typically completes within 12–16 weeks.

Questions

Frequently asked.

What is RegAhead?

A regulator-first risk intelligence platform for banks, insurers, NBFCs, and fintechs. It converts global regulatory mandates — RBI IT Outsourcing Directions, DORA, MAS TRM, IRDAI, DPDP and more — into continuously monitored controls, automated assessments, and audit-ready evidence. It is built around regulatory obligations from the ground up rather than adapted from a generic control library.

How is this different from MetricStream or ServiceNow GRC?

Those are horizontal enterprise GRC platforms adapted for financial services. RegAhead's Knowledge Graph natively maps obligations regulator by regulator to specific controls and evidence requirements, and its sovereign AI architecture means regulatory data never leaves your environment for processing by public AI systems.

Which regulatory frameworks are covered?

50+ frameworks including RBI IT and ITeS Outsourcing Directions, DORA, MAS TRM, HKMA, SAMA, IRDAI outsourcing guidelines, DPDP, GDPR, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SEBI guidelines, SOX 302 and 404, and COSO ERM. The graph is updated as regulations are revised.

What is sovereign AI, and why does it matter here?

Inference runs entirely within your control perimeter on private, domain-trained Small Language Models rather than public AI APIs. Regulatory data, third-party assessment results, and audit evidence never leave your environment — a non-negotiable requirement under RBI, MAS, DORA, and DPDP residency and processing obligations.

How quickly can a BFSI institution deploy?

A standard TPRM deployment with RBI IT Outsourcing control mapping, partner onboarding workflows, and basic risk monitoring can be operational in 4 weeks. Full platform deployment including custom control frameworks, integration configuration, and data migration typically completes within 12–16 weeks.

Can it integrate with existing GRC, ERP, or security systems?

Yes — API integration with GRC platforms (ServiceNow, MetricStream, Archer), ERP systems, security tooling (SIEM, vulnerability scanners), identity verification providers (MCA, GST, NSDL, credit bureaus in India), and enterprise communication platforms. The platform augments existing infrastructure rather than replacing it during transition.

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Email
info@regahead.com
Phone
+91 99725 85333
Office
WeWork BKC, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai 400051
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