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BankScope

Where Finance Meets Public Insight.

Overview

BankScope is an open-source financial intelligence, regulatory oversight, and institutional monitoring platform designed to bring transparency and accountability to the financial system. Inspired by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, BankScope provides a centralized platform for tracking financial institutions, evaluating financial stability, monitoring regulatory compliance, and examining systemic risk.

The platform aggregates publicly available financial information, regulatory filings, enforcement records, institutional disclosures, and consumer protection data to make complex financial information accessible to researchers, journalists, policymakers, financial professionals, and the public.

BankScope is designed to provide a comprehensive view of the financial system by connecting institutional financial health, regulatory oversight, consumer protection, market exposure, corporate governance, and systemic risk intelligence.

The platform prioritizes transparent methodologies, verifiable information, historical comparisons, explainable analytics, and publicly accessible research.

Project Objectives

Make financial institution oversight more accessible and understandable.
Monitor financial stability and systemic risk across the banking industry.
Track institutional compliance with applicable financial regulations.
Increase transparency surrounding regulatory enforcement and institutional accountability.
Monitor consumer financial protection and lending practices.
Aggregate publicly available financial and regulatory information.
Identify emerging financial vulnerabilities through historical and comparative analysis.
Provide transparent financial intelligence and risk assessment tools.
Empower researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the public with accessible financial data.
Establish an extensible platform for community-developed financial intelligence capabilities.
Support independent research into the effectiveness of financial regulation.
Improve public understanding of the financial system and its interconnected risks.

Core Modules

Financial Institution Intelligence

Provides comprehensive institutional profiles and financial information for banks, bank holding companies, and other regulated financial institutions.

Features:

Financial institution identification and registration information.
Bank holding company and subsidiary relationship mapping.
Institutional ownership and organizational structure.
Total assets and balance sheet monitoring.
Deposits, loans, liabilities, and equity reporting.
Financial performance and profitability tracking.
Domestic and international banking operations.
Institutional mergers and acquisitions.
Historical institutional financial records.
Bank closures, failures, and receivership histories.
Institutional peer comparisons.
Financial institution search and filtering.
Institution-specific historical reporting.
Consolidated institutional financial profiles.

Systemic Risk Monitoring

Tracks financial vulnerabilities and interconnected risks that could threaten the stability of the broader financial system.

Features:

Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) designation tracking.
Systemically important financial institution identification.
Systemic risk indicator monitoring.
Institutional interconnectedness analysis.
Financial institution concentration analysis.
Counterparty exposure monitoring where publicly available.
Financial contagion risk indicators.
Cross-institution vulnerability comparisons.
Emerging financial instability indicators.
Historical systemic risk trend analysis.
Systemic risk event timelines.
Financial stability research integration.
Early-warning indicators based on available financial information.
Systemic risk visualization and reporting.

Capital Adequacy and Financial Health

Monitors institutional capital positions and evaluates financial resilience against applicable regulatory requirements.

Features:

Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital ratio tracking.
Tier 1 capital ratio monitoring.
Total capital adequacy ratio tracking.
Leverage ratio analysis.
Risk-weighted asset monitoring.
Capital conservation buffer reporting.
Countercyclical capital buffer tracking where applicable.
Regulatory capital requirement comparisons.
Historical capital adequacy trends.
Nonperforming loan monitoring.
Loan loss reserve analysis.
Asset quality indicators.
Financial health benchmarking.
Institutional capital deterioration alerts.
Peer institution capital comparisons.

Liquidity and Funding Intelligence

Evaluates institutional liquidity positions, funding structures, and potential vulnerabilities associated with short-term financial obligations.

Features:

Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) monitoring.
Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) monitoring.
High-quality liquid asset tracking.
Deposit concentration analysis.
Funding source diversification analysis.
Wholesale funding dependency monitoring.
Short-term funding exposure.
Deposit composition and historical trends.
Liquidity stress indicators.
Funding stability comparisons.
Institutional liquidity reporting.
Historical liquidity trend analysis.
Liquidity deterioration alerts.
Regulatory liquidity requirement comparisons.

Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis

Aggregates and analyzes publicly available institutional stress testing information to evaluate financial resilience under adverse economic conditions.

Features:

Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) tracking.
Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test (DFAST) reporting.
Federal Reserve stress test result aggregation.
Adverse economic scenario comparisons.
Severely adverse scenario analysis.
Capital depletion analysis.
Recession impact modeling.
Interest rate shock simulations.
Unemployment scenario modeling.
Credit deterioration scenarios.
Institutional stress test history.
Comparative stress resilience dashboards.
Historical stress test performance.
Stress scenario customization.
Financial vulnerability projections.

Resolution Planning and Too-Big-to-Fail Oversight

Monitors resolution planning requirements and regulatory assessments for financial institutions whose failure could threaten financial stability.

Features:

Living will submission tracking.
Resolution plan publication monitoring.
Federal Reserve and FDIC resolution plan assessment history.
Resolution plan deficiency tracking.
Institutional resolution strategy comparisons.
Orderly Liquidation Authority information.
FDIC receivership and resolution records.
Historical bank failure monitoring.
Systemically important institution resolution tracking.
Resolution readiness reporting.
Regulatory remediation requirements.
Institutional resolution timelines.
Historical resolution effectiveness research.

Derivatives and Market Exposure Intelligence

Monitors publicly available derivatives market information and regulatory disclosures to improve visibility into financial market exposures and interconnectedness.

Features:

Derivatives market activity monitoring.
Interest rate derivatives reporting.
Credit default swap activity tracking.
Foreign exchange derivatives monitoring.
Equity and commodity derivatives reporting.
Central counterparty clearing information.
Swap execution facility reporting.
Trade repository data aggregation.
Counterparty exposure analysis where available.
Derivatives market concentration analysis.
Historical derivatives exposure comparisons.
Clearing requirement monitoring.
Derivatives regulatory reporting.
Market exposure trend analysis.
Derivatives market transparency reporting.

Volcker Rule and Proprietary Trading Oversight

Tracks regulatory requirements and publicly available disclosures associated with proprietary trading restrictions and covered fund activities.

Features:

Volcker Rule regulatory requirement tracking.
Proprietary trading restriction monitoring.
Covered fund activity reporting.
Banking entity compliance disclosures.
Trading activity risk indicators.
Regulatory enforcement action tracking.
Institutional disclosure comparisons.
Regulatory amendment tracking.
Historical compliance reporting.
Volcker Rule research and documentation.

Consumer Financial Protection Intelligence

Monitors consumer financial protection activities, complaints, enforcement actions, and institutional conduct.

Features:

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) enforcement tracking.
Consumer complaint database integration.
Complaint categorization by financial product.
Mortgage lending complaint analysis.
Credit card complaint monitoring.
Consumer loan complaint tracking.
Debt collection complaint analysis.
Banking service complaint monitoring.
Complaint volume and trend comparisons.
Geographic complaint distribution.
Consumer harm and restitution reporting.
Regulatory penalties and settlement tracking.
Repeat enforcement history identification.
Unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) enforcement monitoring.
Consumer protection research reports.
Institutional complaint comparisons.
Historical consumer complaint trends.

Mortgage Lending and Housing Finance Oversight

Provides visibility into mortgage lending practices, housing finance activity, and fair lending enforcement.

Features:

Mortgage origination data monitoring.
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data integration.
Mortgage lending concentration analysis.
Mortgage delinquency reporting.
Foreclosure trend monitoring.
Loan denial and approval pattern analysis.
Mortgage servicing enforcement tracking.
Fair lending enforcement monitoring.
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance tracking.
Predatory lending enforcement records.
Geographic lending disparity analysis.
Mortgage market historical comparisons.
Institutional mortgage lending profiles.
Housing finance research tools.

Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance

Tracks institutional leadership, executive compensation disclosures, shareholder voting, and corporate governance practices.

Features:

Executive compensation disclosure tracking.
CEO and executive pay comparisons.
Incentive compensation reporting.
Risk-related compensation disclosures.
Shareholder say-on-pay voting results.
Board of directors composition.
Corporate governance structure monitoring.
Institutional ownership disclosures.
Shareholder proposals and voting records.
Executive departures and leadership changes.
Historical compensation trend analysis.
Governance research profiles.
Institutional governance comparisons.

Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement Intelligence

Centralizes publicly available regulatory enforcement information and monitors institutional compliance-related developments.

Features:

Federal Reserve enforcement action tracking.
FDIC enforcement action tracking.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) enforcement tracking.
CFPB enforcement action monitoring.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement tracking.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) enforcement tracking.
Department of Justice financial institution enforcement records.
Consent orders and settlement tracking.
Civil monetary penalties.
Regulatory remediation requirements.
Enforcement history by institution.
Repeat regulatory violation identification based on documented findings.
Regulatory deadline tracking.
Proposed regulatory changes.
Finalized regulatory rule tracking.
Historical regulatory action comparisons.
Institutional enforcement timelines.
Regulatory compliance dashboards.

Federal Regulatory Agency Intelligence

Aggregates information from federal financial oversight agencies and provides a centralized view of regulatory activity.

Features:

Financial Stability Oversight Council monitoring.
Office of Financial Research reporting.
Federal Reserve publications and regulatory announcements.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reporting.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency publications.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reporting.
Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission reporting.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority disclosures.
Federal regulatory rulemaking tracking.
Proposed and finalized regulatory changes.
Agency leadership and organizational changes.
Regulatory jurisdiction and responsibility mapping.
Agency publication timelines.
Regulatory research archives.
Cross-agency regulatory activity comparisons.

Financial Data Aggregation and Verification

Provides the foundation for collecting, validating, organizing, and preserving publicly available financial information.

Features:

Automated ingestion of publicly available financial datasets.
SEC EDGAR filing integration.
Federal Reserve data integration.
FDIC bank financial data integration.
CFPB consumer complaint data integration.
OCC financial reporting integration.
FSOC annual report aggregation.
Office of Financial Research data integration.
CFTC derivatives reporting integration.
Regulatory document ingestion.
Data normalization and reconciliation.
Historical dataset archiving.
Source attribution and publication dates.
Data quality validation.
Conflicting information identification.
Data freshness indicators.
Source document preservation.
Dataset version history.
Data provenance tracking.
Public API connectivity.

Financial Intelligence Dashboards

Provides interactive visualizations and customizable monitoring environments for financial institutions, regulatory activity, and systemic risk.

Features:

Individual financial institution dashboards.
Banking industry overview dashboard.
Systemic risk dashboard.
Capital adequacy dashboard.
Liquidity monitoring dashboard.
Derivatives market dashboard.
Consumer protection dashboard.
Mortgage lending dashboard.
Regulatory enforcement dashboard.
Executive compensation dashboard.
Financial institution comparison tools.
Historical trend visualizations.
Geographic financial activity maps.
Customizable dashboard layouts.
Institution watchlists.
Financial metric comparison charts.
Historical financial event timelines.
Exportable charts and reports.
Configurable dashboard filters.

Institutional Risk Scoring and Benchmarking

Provides transparent analytical frameworks for comparing institutional financial health and identifying potential vulnerabilities.

Features:

Configurable financial risk indicators.
Capital adequacy benchmarking.
Liquidity risk benchmarking.
Asset quality comparisons.
Leverage comparisons.
Funding concentration indicators.
Derivatives exposure indicators.
Enforcement history indicators.
Institutional risk trend comparisons.
Peer institution benchmarking.
Historical risk score comparisons.
User-defined risk thresholds.
Explainable risk calculations.
Risk factor contribution analysis.
Institutional financial health comparisons.
Custom scoring methodologies.
Documented scoring assumptions.
Confidence and data completeness indicators.

Risk assessments must distinguish independently calculated indicators from official regulatory determinations. BankScope risk scores must never be presented as official regulatory ratings or guarantees of institutional safety.

Regulatory Alerts and Public Notifications

Provides configurable notifications when significant financial, regulatory, or institutional developments occur.

Features:

New regulatory enforcement action alerts.
Published stress test result notifications.
Capital ratio reporting alerts.
Liquidity deterioration indicators.
Living will assessment notifications.
Regulatory rulemaking alerts.
CFPB complaint trend alerts.
Significant derivatives market activity alerts.
Institutional merger and acquisition alerts.
Bank failure and receivership notifications.
Executive leadership change alerts.
Compensation disclosure alerts.
Custom institution watchlists.
Customizable notification thresholds.
Daily financial intelligence summaries.
Weekly regulatory summaries.
Monthly institutional monitoring reports.
Historical alert archives.

Research, Reporting, and Public Access

Provides tools for investigating financial institutions, examining regulatory activity, and producing accessible research.

Features:

Public financial institution research profiles.
Downloadable financial reports.
Institutional comparison reports.
Historical regulatory research.
Financial stability research tools.
Searchable regulatory document library.
Advanced filtering and search.
Source-linked analytical findings.
Custom report generation.
CSV, JSON, and PDF exports.
Public research collections.
Reproducible analytical reports.
Research citation tools.
Publicly accessible datasets.
Financial institution research timelines.
Custom research workspaces.
Historical financial event analysis.
Public-interest research sharing.

Open API and Developer Intelligence

Provides programmatic access to BankScope financial intelligence and enables third-party applications to integrate public financial oversight information.

Features:

Public REST API.
Financial institution lookup endpoints.
Regulatory enforcement data endpoints.
Financial reporting endpoints.
Systemic risk indicator endpoints.
Consumer complaint data endpoints.
Historical financial data endpoints.
Search and filtering endpoints.
Data export endpoints.
API documentation.
API authentication and access controls.
Rate limiting and usage monitoring.
Developer integration examples.
Third-party application integration.
Community-developed data connectors.
API usage analytics.
Versioned API endpoints.
Data access permissions.

Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytics

Uses artificial intelligence to assist with financial research, document analysis, anomaly identification, and predictive modeling.

Features:

AI-assisted financial report analysis.
Regulatory filing summarization.
Automated identification of significant financial changes.
Anomaly detection in historical financial reporting.
Financial trend identification.
Institutional risk pattern analysis.
Cross-institution comparison assistance.
Regulatory document classification.
Enforcement history summarization.
Natural language financial research.
Conversational financial intelligence assistant.
Predictive systemic risk modeling.
Scenario-based financial projections.
AI-generated research summaries with source citations.
Explainable analytical outputs.
Financial event correlation.
Historical crisis pattern analysis.
Model performance monitoring.
Model uncertainty and confidence reporting.
Human verification of consequential findings.

AI-generated analysis must remain distinguishable from verified source information. Predictive models must disclose their assumptions, limitations, underlying data, and confidence measures. AI must not independently declare an institution insolvent, noncompliant, or unsafe without verifiable supporting evidence.

Data Integrity, Privacy, and Platform Security

Protects the integrity of financial information, analytical results, user accounts, and platform operations.

Features:

Secure data ingestion and processing.
Encryption in transit and at rest.
Role-based access controls.
Administrative permission management.
API security controls.
Audit logging.
Data provenance tracking.
Source document integrity verification.
Dataset version history.
Reproducible calculations.
Model transparency and documentation.
Secure plugin permissions.
Protection against unauthorized data modification.
Backup and recovery capabilities.
Secure user authentication.
Administrative activity monitoring.
Data retention controls.
Security event reporting.

Optional Plugin Modules

International Financial Oversight

Extends BankScope beyond United States financial institutions to provide international financial regulatory monitoring.

Features:

International banking institution monitoring.
Basel Committee regulatory framework tracking.
Basel III capital and liquidity comparisons.
Financial Stability Board publications.
International derivatives market reporting.
Cross-border banking exposure analysis.
Country-level systemic risk indicators.
International regulatory enforcement tracking.
Global banking institution comparisons.
Cross-border financial stability research.

Insurance and Nonbank Financial Institutions

Expands institutional monitoring to insurance companies and financial organizations outside traditional banking.

Features:

Insurance company financial monitoring.
Private credit market intelligence.
Hedge fund reporting analysis.
Asset management institution monitoring.
Money market fund monitoring.
Nonbank financial intermediary oversight.
Financial institution interconnectedness.
Insurance capital adequacy analysis.
Nonbank liquidity monitoring.
Shadow banking risk indicators.

Investment and Securities Market Oversight

Adds monitoring capabilities for securities markets, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and publicly traded financial organizations.

Features:

Public company financial disclosure monitoring.
Securities market enforcement tracking.
Broker-dealer regulatory oversight.
Investment adviser disclosure monitoring.
Short selling disclosure analysis where available.
Market concentration indicators.
Securities lending intelligence.
Institutional investment activity reporting.
Regulatory filing comparisons.
Historical securities enforcement records.

Community Banking Intelligence

Provides specialized monitoring and research tools for community banks and smaller financial institutions.

Features:

Community bank financial health monitoring.
Small bank capital and liquidity comparisons.
Rural banking access analysis.
Community lending indicators.
Deposit concentration monitoring.
Community Reinvestment Act research.
Regional banking vulnerability analysis.
Community bank failure history.
Small institution peer comparisons.
Local financial stability reporting.

Public Accountability and Investigative Research

Provides specialized research capabilities for journalists, academics, consumer advocates, and public-interest organizations.

Features:

Financial institution investigative research workspace.
Regulatory document comparison.
Historical enforcement timelines.
Institutional relationship visualization.
Research collaboration tools.
Public-interest investigation collections.
Journalist and academic research exports.
Source documentation management.
Evidence-linked research findings.
Institutional accountability reports.
Historical regulatory investigation archives.

Advanced Financial Modeling

Extends financial analysis capabilities through customizable modeling and simulation tools.

Features:

User-defined stress scenarios.
Custom systemic risk models.
Historical financial crisis comparisons.
Interest rate sensitivity modeling.
Credit loss projections.
Liquidity shock simulations.
Institutional interdependency simulations.
Custom risk indicator development.
Financial contagion scenario modeling.
Multi-institution stress comparisons.
Scenario result visualization.
Model documentation and reproducibility.

Specification Branding License (SBL)

Standard

Fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant system
Copyleft enforced for network deployments
Required attribution:
- Roxanne Ardary
- https://www.roxanneardary.com/

Optional

Specification Branding License (SBL)
- Attribution-free commercial deployment
- Pricing based on scale, usage, and deployment scope
- https://roxanneardary.com/bankscope/

License & Notice Requirements

BankScope is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
By contributing to any Open Arsenal project, you agree that your contributions will also be released under this license.

Please note the following:

All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ terms.
Under Section 7 of the license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works must preserve attribution to:
Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
BankScope specifications are free to use with attribution. A Specification Branding License can be negotiated upon request.
The project’s notice.md file tracks attribution requirements and contributor acknowledgments.
Any update that adds new contributors or modifies attribution should also update notice.md.
When submitting a pull request, ensure that any new files maintain the attribution headers where applicable.
Network-deployed versions of this software must also remain fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant, including exposure of source code modifications when applicable under the license.

For full legal details, please refer to the AGPL-3.0+ license and the project’s notice.md file.

Notice – BankScope

Attribution Requirement: Under Section 7 of the AGPL 3.0+ license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works, including network-deployed versions of this project, must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.

Contributors

This file tracks contributors and their specific contributions to the project.

Roxanne Ardary, roxanneardary.com – November 9, 2026
Created the repository for BankScope. Developed the project concept, platform architecture, modular feature specifications, and financial intelligence framework for monitoring financial institutions, systemic risk, regulatory compliance, consumer protection, and financial transparency.
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License – BankScope

This repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).

Key Points:

You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.
All redistributions, forks, and derivative works or network-deployed versions must also be licensed under AGPL-3.0+ and provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com as required under Section 7 of the license.
The software is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind.

For the full license text, see GNU AGPL-3.0 License.