calseda

Regulatory data

Every number can show where it came from.

When a supervisor or an auditor asks how a figure was produced, most teams rebuild the answer by hand. With Calseda each figure shows the exact values of the inputs it was calculated from, each with its source and its freshness. Posted changes are logged with who posted them.

What you can't see today

The path from a source system to a reported number.

Which inputs

A figure passes through extracts and spreadsheets. Its exact inputs are no longer written down anywhere.

How old they were

Nobody can say whether a price or a balance behind a figure was from this morning or from last week.

Who changed what

A manual adjustment in a spreadsheet changes a reported figure, and nobody remembers who made it.

Fast answers under pressure

In a stressed week, a new question from a supervisor becomes a project when an answer is needed the same day.

What you'd see instead

A figure looks wrong. Risk asks why it is what it is.

Today

  1. Day 1

    The question arrives. A team starts tracing the figure back through spreadsheets and batch logs.

  2. Day 5

    They have found a manual adjustment that nobody remembers making. An answer goes back, with caveats about what could not be traced.

With Calseda

  1. Step 1

    Open the figure. See the exact values of the inputs it was calculated from, and the calculation or source system each one came from.

  2. Step 2

    Each input shows when its data is from and when it arrived, and is flagged if it was older than its source should allow.

  3. Step 3

    A manual override is one of those inputs, with its source. The log says who posted it, and when.

  4. Step 4

    Risk has its answer while the figure still stands, without rebuilding it from spreadsheets and batch logs.

An example. The days are illustrative.

Themes you will recognise

Evidence for the questions risk data principles raise.

The Basel Committee's principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting (BCBS 239) ask, among other things, for accurate and timely risk data. They also ask for clear governance and for the ability to answer new questions quickly.

ThemeWhat Calseda shows
Accuracy and integrity Each figure's exact input values and their sources, captured as the figure is calculated, not reconstructed later.
Timeliness Figures recalculated when their data changes, and flagged when an input is older than its source should allow.
Adaptability New questions asked as private "what if?" calculations on the live data, without a new project.
Governance and control Roles that decide who may do what, and a log of who posted each change.

Calseda does not make an organisation compliant with any regulation, and holds no certification against any standard. It gives your teams evidence for the questions these principles raise.

See it in a demo

Open a figure and see what it was made of.

In a demo, every row on a bank's limit board opens to the inputs behind it, each with the system it came from and its age. Another page shows how data flows through the whole server, from each source to each result.

A demo's limit board with one row opened to its inputs, sources and ages A demo's limit board with one row opened to its inputs, sources and ages
From a demo running on public data: one figure opened to its inputs, each with its source and age. Everything about the bank is simulated, and exchange rates move around the ECB's real daily rates.
A demo's data flow map from sources through calculations to results A demo's data flow map from sources through calculations to results
From a demo running on public data: the server's data flow, from each source to each result, as it runs now.

What changes for your team

Less time rebuilding, more time on the answer.

No archaeology

Nobody spends days working out which inputs a figure was calculated from. The figure shows them.

Adjustments in the open

Overrides made in Excel go back through checks, and the log says who posted each one and when.

What your regulator or auditor gets

A figure that answers for itself.

  • For each figure as it stands, the exact input values it was calculated from, and the calculation or source system each came from.
  • How fresh each input was, and a flag where it was older than its source should allow.
  • How long a change in the source data took to reach the figure.
  • A log of who posted what and when, signed in through your own identity provider.

How it starts

With one figure that is hard to explain today.

  1. Pick one figure

    Choose one that took too long to explain the last time someone asked.

  2. Connect the data you already have

    Read from the systems that already produce it. Nothing is replaced.

  3. Write the calculation

    Your developers, or ours, write it once. Calseda shows the exact inputs behind each result.

  4. Ask it the hard questions

    Run it alongside today's process, and put to it the questions your auditors asked last time.

Make one figure answer for itself

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