Tech Compass Blog

Practical writing on AU compliance data, AASB S2, sanctions screening, and the infrastructure behind regulatory workflows.

Five sanctions lists. One screen call. Why multi-jurisdiction screening matters.

OFAC screening and global sanctions compliance are not the same thing. A counterparty can be absent from the SDN list and still be designated under EU, UK, UN, or Australian DFAT sanctions. Here is what consolidated screening looks like.

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OFAC screening: what it covers, what it misses, and why it needs an audit trail

OFAC screening is not optional for financial institutions with US dollar exposure. But building a production-grade process around the SDN list is harder than downloading the file. This post covers the name matching problem and what a structured audit trail requires.

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How to check if a US financial adviser or broker has a disciplinary history

FINRA BrokerCheck contains disciplinary disclosures, permanent bars, regulatory actions, and customer complaints for US-registered brokers and advisers. A manual search is not a compliance process. Here is what structured access looks like.

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ABN versus ACN: what Australian entity verification actually requires

ABN Lookup and ASIC Connect are not a production KYC workflow. A complete entity check requires both registries, a consistent schema, and an audit trail. This post explains why and what it takes to build it properly.

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Why compliance teams cannot use raw SEC EDGAR data in production

SEC EDGAR and Federal Reserve FRED are free and public. But free public access is not production-ready data infrastructure. No SLA, no schema versioning, no vendor relationship, no audit trail. Here is what regulated firms actually need.

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AASB S2: How to find out who has to report and when

ASIC has published Group 1 and Group 2 cohort lists but they are PDFs with no API. This post explains the thresholds, the boundary cases, and why knowing who is in scope matters beyond your own reporting.

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NGA Factors and AASB S2: Why the emission factor question is harder than it looks

AASB S2 assurance requires more than a carbon number. It requires version history, access timestamps, and a reproducible process for sourcing NGA Factors. Here is what that looks like.

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