RAG-powered regulatory IQ for East African central bank directives cited answers, Chrome extension, FastAPI streaming backend
# RegIQ
**Regulatory intelligence for East African financial institutions.**
RegIQ turns central bank directives and circulars into precise, cited answers. Ask a compliance question and receive a response with the exact directive number, article, and page; the same level of precision a senior compliance counsel would provide, in seconds.
Built for compliance officers, bank legal teams, internal audit teams, and financial regulators across East and Central Africa.
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## What it does
> _"What's the penalty for late data submission?"_
**RegIQ responds:**
> Under Directive No. 2500/2018, Article 21 - banks face **500,000 FRW** for non-submission plus **50,000 FRW per day** of delay. MFIs, e-money issuers, insurance brokers, and other supervised institutions face 100,000 FRW base penalty plus 10,000 FRW/day.
Every answer is cited. Every citation is traceable to its source article and page.
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## Coverage
| Jurisdiction | Central Bank | Status |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------------- | --------------------- |
| Rwanda | National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) | Live - 19+ directives |
| Kenya | Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) | Coming soon |
| Uganda | Bank of Uganda (BOU) | Coming soon |
| Burundi | Banque de la République du Burundi (BRB) | Coming soon |
| DRC | Banque Centrale du Congo (BCC) | Coming soon |
| Somalia | Central Bank of Somalia (CBS) | Coming soon |
| South Sudan | Bank of South Sudan (BSS) | Coming soon |
| Tanzania | Bank of Tanzania (BOT) | Coming soon |
The architecture is jurisdiction-agnostic. Adding a new country requires only ingesting its directive corpus - the retrieval and generation pipeline is unchanged.
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## Architecture
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Central bank PDFs
→ OCR pipeline (scanned …