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Practical guides

Working-day notes from the regulatory front line.

Six guides — from DORA gap analysis to the EU AI Act and beyond — written from real Sia engagements with GSIBs, insurers, hyperscalers, and pharma. No fluff, no vendor speak. The workflow we'd hand to a compliance lead taking the project on Monday.

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Featured · 11 min Point of view · Engineering

Thick wrapper vs thin wrapper — why regulatory AI needs a purpose-built system.

Why ChatGPT, Claude, and horizontal AI tools like Harvey can't replace a purpose-built regulatory system. The thick-wrapper case, the five-question test we'd run on any vendor, and what "trained on tens of thousands of SME annotations" actually means.

April 26, 2026 By Sia Read the POV
Engineering · Defensibility

Citation Graphs for Compliance — Why Every AI Output Needs Receipts.

The mechanic that turns AI output from "memo" into "audit-ready artifact." The five-property checklist for any vendor that claims defensibility.

9 min Read
Banking · DORA

Automating DORA Gap Analysis: A Practical Guide.

Six phases — scope, obligation extraction, applicability triage, gap analysis, control drafting, evidence pack — from real GSIB engagements.

10 min Read
Banking · AI

EU AI Act for Banks — Obligations, Decoded.

Where banks land in the four risk tiers. What Annex IV documentation actually needs. The August 2026 timeline you can't miss.

9 min Read
Banking · APAC

MAS Notice 626 vs HKMA SPM — Side-by-Side.

70% of obligations map cleanly. The remaining 30% — PEP scope, BO thresholds, STR timing — is where multi-jurisdictional banks burn budget.

8 min Read
Banking · OCC

OCC Heightened Standards: Mapping 12 CFR §30 with AI.

For state-chartered banks moving to OCC supervision, or any large bank under heightened-standards scrutiny. The clause-level mapping playbook from a recent charter conversion.

9 min Read
Insurance · Solvency II / IFRS 17

Solvency II + IFRS 17: Two Frameworks, One Compliance Workflow.

Insurers run Solvency II for capital and IFRS 17 for accounting — and both touch the same products, contracts, and data. How to map them once and serve both.

10 min Read
Tech · NIST AI RMF

NIST AI RMF for Tech: From Govern to Measure in 30 Days.

The four functions (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage), what each one actually demands of an AI-first company, and the pragmatic 30-day onboarding plan we run with hyperscalers.

9 min Read

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