rodgerswisdom/comply-africa

compliance engine for African banks and Fintechs # ComplyAfrica > Open-source compliance intelligence for African banks and fintechs. > Built in Nairobi by the guy behind Keverd. **Status:** Early. Regulatory corpus in progress. APIs coming. **Ask:** Contribute a regulation, roast the approach, or tell us what we're missing. --- ## Why This Exists I built Keverd to help African fintechs stop fraud. In every sales call, the same second problem came up: compliance is manual, expensive, and reactive. - A Kenyan MFB spends 3 days preparing CBK returns every month - A Nigerian fintech's compliance officer manually checks 4 websites for CBN circulars - A Ghanaian startup got fined because they missed a BOG threshold change announced on Twitter We need a shared, structured, machine-readable layer for African financial regulation. This is my attempt. Open source because compliance shouldn't be a monopoly. --- ## What's Here Now | Component | Status | Description | |-----------|--------|-------------| | `/regulations/kenya/cbk` | 🟡 In Progress | Prudential guidelines, AML rules, returns | | `/regulations/nigeria/cbn` | 🔴 Not started | Need contributors | | `/patterns/mobile-money` | 🟡 In Progress | AML patterns for agent networks | | `/reports/cbk-returns` | 🔴 Not started | Auto-generation templates | | `/api` | 🔴 Not started | FastAPI layer (see Roadmap) | --- ## The Goal **For compliance officers:** "Did any regulation change this week that affects my license?" → One query, one answer. **For developers:** `POST /screen` → Check a customer against sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media in 200ms. `POST /generate` → Auto-draft a CBK return from your transaction CSV. `GET /changes` → See what changed in your regulator's rules this week. **For regulators:** A standard format for publishing rules that machines can read. We will consume whatever you publish. --- ## Contributing We need three things: ### 1. Regulatory Documents Have a PDF, circular, or guideline from your central bank? Open an issue with `[R …