Skip to main content
Bankflow

Risk review: A risk report that shows its working.

Select a set of parsed statements and run a risk review across them. Seven rule families examine the evidence, the balance, the income, the commitments, the failed payments, laundering patterns, and behaviour. Every finding carries the transactions it came from, and nothing on the page tells you what to decide.

50 free page credits · No card · Cancel anytime

  • Runs only when asked
  • Evidence first
  • Findings linked to rows

Risk review

4 statements · Checking ••4521

Jan 2 to Apr 30 · all 4 verified

Worth reading
38

Sorting aid, not a decision

Findings that matter

  • Month-end balance far exceeds the month's average in 2 months

    Liquidity
  • Existing commitments take 41% of income

    Obligations
  • Overdrawn on 6 of 118 days

    Liquidity

Evidence

Nothing flagged

Liquidity

2 findings

Inflow

Nothing flagged

Obligations

1 finding

Distress

Nothing flagged

Laundering

Nothing flagged

Behaviour

Nothing flagged

Every finding opens onto its transactions. Illustrative data.

A number at the top of a page is a decision, whatever it is called.

Most statement risk tools lead with a score, and a reader acts on the score long before reaching the reasons under it. That makes the tool the decision-maker without anyone deciding it should be, and it hides the question that matters most: whether the statements could be relied on in the first place. A review worth trusting has to lead with what was examined and whether it held together, show the findings in the order they should be read, and keep any score small enough to stay a sorting aid.

How it works

How a review reads

  1. 1

    A masthead that names the subject

    The report opens on what was audited: which statements, which account, what period, and whether they verified. The band beside it says how urgently to read on, as an instruction about reading order, never an outcome.

  2. 2

    The findings that matter, worst first

    Findings are lifted out of their families and ordered by severity, so the returned payment or the stopped income is the first thing read, not the fortieth.

  3. 3

    Evidence integrity in full

    Verification against printed balances, missing days between statements, overlaps, duplicates, periods that do not meet, and currency. It qualifies every figure below it, so it is shown before them.

  4. 4

    Six more families at a glance

    Liquidity, inflow, obligations, distress, laundering, and behaviour, laid out so a family with nothing to report takes a line rather than a section.

  5. 5

    A written summary, after the fact

    A narrative is written once the report is complete and cannot change any finding or the score. It explains; it does not decide.

Principles the review is built on

On request only

A review runs when someone selects statements and asks for one, on exactly those statements. Never on import, never in the background.

Evidence before findings

Whether the statements verify, join up, and belong to one account is assessed first, because every other figure depends on it.

Every finding is checkable

Each finding opens onto the transactions it was drawn from, with the figure that triggered it.

Unassessable means left out

A family without enough data to judge is removed from the score's denominator rather than counted against the account.

No invented exchange rates

When statements span several currencies, money figures are withheld rather than converted at a rate the tool picked. Ratios and counts are still reported.

Reproducible

The audit is a function of the rows it was given and nothing else, so a report can be re-derived from its statements long after it was run.

Examples of what gets flagged

Finding titles as the report writes them, with figures filled in from the statements reviewed.

FamilyExample finding
EvidenceN days missing between statements
LiquidityMonth-end balance far exceeds the month's average in N months
InflowThe main income stream appears in only N of M months
ObligationsExisting commitments take N% of income
DistressN recurring commitments stopped being paid
LaunderingN% of inflow left again within N days
BehaviourN% of spending leaves as cash

FAQ

Common questions

Who is the risk review for?

Anyone who reads other people's bank statements to make a judgement: lenders, underwriters, brokers, and landlords, and accountants doing due diligence. It is built to shorten the reading, not to replace the reader.

Does it produce a credit score or a decision?

It produces a score, deliberately presented small and captioned as a sorting aid, and a band describing how urgently to read on. There is no approve, refer, or decline anywhere in the feature.

How are recurring payments found?

Structurally, from the same counterparty, a steady amount, and a regular day, rather than from keywords. That finds salary and loan repayments on banks whose narrations never name them.

Can it detect fraudulent statements?

It checks whether statements reconcile and join up, which catches many problems, but it cannot prove a document genuine. A PDF's own metadata is reported only as low-weight context, never as a finding on its own.

Are country-specific rules or thresholds applied?

No. The rules are jurisdiction-agnostic, because statements can be in any currency and a limit copied from one country's rules would be wrong everywhere else.

What do I need to run one?

Parsed statements in your account. Select them on the Statements page and choose to run a risk analysis. The free tier includes 50 page credits for parsing.

Read a file in the order it should be read.

Parse a set of statements you know well, run a review, and check whether it surfaces what you would have looked for.