Banking

Document AI for banks. Audit-ready by default.

Loan applications, KYC packages, bank and credit-card statements, mortgage closing files, and court orders pile up in every banking workflow. Cogneris structures every document the moment it arrives — with SOC 2 Type II controls (audit in progress), GLBA-aligned PII handling, zero-retention LLM access, and an audit trail your examiners and internal audit can defend.

The challenge

Banking documents are PII-heavy, regulator-scrutinized, and arrive in every imaginable format.

Loan/credit document chaos

Income docs, statements, ID, and employment verification arrive in different formats from every applicant. Manual review delays decisions and breeds inconsistency across underwriting teams.

KYC/AML at regulator-defensible scale

BSA, CIP, and CDD/EDD obligations require documented, auditable verification on every customer. Manual review caps throughput and creates audit gaps that surface in the next examination.

Underwriting cycle time

Days, not minutes, from application to decision. Every hour of latency is a deal lost to a faster lender — and every manual hand-off adds another point where the file can stall or get re-keyed.

How Cogneris helps

Banking documents, structured. Compliance, built in.

Cogneris extracts loan applications, KYC packages, bank statements, and court orders — with SOC 2 Type II controls (audit in progress), GLBA-aligned PII handling, and zero-retention LLM access on the critical path.

  • Loan application bundle parsing — pay stubs, W-2s, 1099s, bank statements, and ID parsed from a single drop-in submission with field-level confidence scoring on income, employment, and assets.
  • KYC/AML document verification — government ID, proof of address, and beneficial ownership extracted and cross-validated with sanctions and PEP screening; full CIP/CDD audit record preserved per regulator request.
  • Bank statement transaction parsing — sub-3-second extraction of transactions, balances, and recurring-deposit patterns from US and Canadian bank/credit-card statements for cash-flow underwriting.
  • SOC 2 Type II controls + GLBA-aligned audit trail — every extraction captures model version, prompt hash, response, and reviewer decisions, exportable for OCC/FDIC examinations and internal audit.
Loan application bundle — extraction result
applicant_idA-LN-204771 (PII redacted in log)
ssn_match✓ verified
monthly_income_grossUS$ 8,420.00
employer_verification✓ via The Work Number
bank_statements3 months, 247 transactions
recurring_deposits✓ matches stated income
kyc_status✓ CIP/CDD complete
decision_payloadready for LOS
Extracted in 4.1s · zero-retention LLM path
99.4%
Field-level extraction accuracy on income docs
<3s
Per-page extraction time on bank statements
SOC 2
Type II audit in progress
GLBA
Privacy & Safeguards-aligned controls
Banking specifics

Built for the documents that drive lending and compliance.

Banking documents arrive in every imaginable format — uploaded loan packages, faxed court orders, scanned IDs, multi-month statement PDFs from a thousand institutions, and beneficial ownership certifications captured at the branch. Cogneris's banking configuration handles the full bundle: every document parsed, every field cross-validated, every PII element tracked through the audit trail.

Income verification

W-2, 1099, and pay stubs parsed to line-item granularity. YTD reconciliation with stated income, with confidence flags for human review on low-confidence fields.

AML transaction screening

Bank statement transactions matched against sanctions, PEP, and structured-deposit patterns flagged for SAR review. Outputs feed your existing AML case-management tooling.

Mortgage document indexing

TRID-required disclosures, appraisals, title commitments, and homeowners insurance extracted as a closing package with cross-document field reconciliation.

Court order processing

Levies, garnishments, and subpoenas parsed with key dates and obligated-account identifiers surfaced for legal review and timely response.

LOS, core & fintech integrations

Lives where your lending and core systems already run.

Cogneris integrates with the loan origination, core banking, and decisioning platforms that already run your bank — so extracted document data flows directly into the LOS and customer record without an intermediate data-entry step.

  • nCino & Encompass — loan origination data flows directly into LOS workflows with full document provenance preserved.
  • Salesforce Financial Services Cloud — extracted applicant data lands as structured records on Person Account and Financial Account objects.
  • Plaid & MX — bank statement extraction complements (and reconciles against) ACH-feed data when statements arrive as PDFs.
  • Jack Henry, Fiserv & FIS cores — account opening packages and beneficial ownership certifications routed to the core via existing fintech connectors.
  • Mambu, Q2 & Alloy — extracted data integrates with the modern loan-origination and decisioning stack.
Documents we extract

The document types behind lending and KYC.

Every loan, account opening, and beneficial-ownership review pulls from the same handful of document types. Cogneris extracts each as a structured object — fields, confidence scores, full audit trail.

For category context, see the IDP buyer's guide, the 2026 State of Document AI report, or estimate ROI at your volume.

  • Bank statement extraction — cash-flow underwriting from US and Canadian statements, with transactions, balances, and recurring-deposit detection in under 3 seconds per page.
  • Check OCR API — payer, payee, amount, date, MICR context, remittance data, and validation evidence for payment workflows.
  • KYC document extraction — government IDs, proof of address, and beneficial-ownership certifications cross-validated against sanctions and PEP screening, with full CIP/CDD audit record.
  • Payroll extraction — pay stubs, W-2s, and 1099s with gross, deductions, and YTD reconciliation against stated income for loan underwriting.
  • Tax return extraction — 1040s, schedules, and K-1s with AGI, deductions, and refund/owed amounts pulled to support credit decisioning.
FAQ

Common questions.

What is Cogneris's SOC 2 status?
Our SOC 2 Type II audit is currently underway. Target report date, audit progress, and our current Type I report are available under NDA — email security@cogneris.ai. Our control environment is aligned with the NIST 800-53 Moderate baseline. We map SOC 2 controls to FFIEC IT examination handbook expectations so vendor risk teams at banks and credit unions can complete OCC bulletin 2013-29 third-party reviews without bespoke evidence collection.
How does Cogneris handle PII and customer data under GLBA?
Cogneris's controls are aligned with the GLBA Privacy Rule and Safeguards Rule. Customer non-public personal information (NPI) is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256-GCM with GCP KMS), access is gated by role-based authorization with audit logging, and all LLM API calls run with zero-retention configured — no training, no logging beyond operational requirements. Sub-processors are listed on our data-protection page, and a written information security program (WISP) is provided to Enterprise customers on request.
What document types are supported out of the box for banking?
Loan applications, pay stubs, W-2s, 1099s, tax returns, employment verification letters, bank and credit-card statements, KYC packages (government ID + proof of address), beneficial ownership certifications, business formation documents (Articles of Incorporation, EIN letters), mortgage TRID disclosures, appraisals, title commitments, trust documents, FinCEN/CTR/SAR filings, and court orders (levies, garnishments, subpoenas). Custom document types are available on Enterprise with few-shot configuration — typically 1 business day from sample documents to a working extractor.
Can Cogneris run inside our VPC?
Yes. VPC-deployed processing is available on the Enterprise plan, with a customer-managed control plane in your AWS, GCP, or Azure tenant. The data plane never leaves your network boundary, and you bring your own KMS keys (BYOK) for envelope encryption. We also support PrivateLink/Private Service Connect for the managed-tenant deployment so traffic stays off the public internet.
How long is customer document data retained?
Default retention is 90 days for raw documents; structured extractions are retained per customer-configured retention policy (typical: 7 years to align with FFIEC and BSA/AML record-retention guidance). Audit logs are retained for 7 years to support OCC/FDIC examinations and internal audit. Retention windows are configurable per workflow on Enterprise — some customers retain raw documents longer for litigation-hold or extended regulatory-examination purposes.
Does Cogneris integrate with our LOS/core banking platform?
Yes — nCino, Encompass, Mambu, Alloy, and Q2 are supported for loan origination and decisioning. Salesforce Financial Services Cloud lands extracted applicant data on Person Account and Financial Account objects. Jack Henry, Fiserv, and FIS cores are supported via existing fintech connectors for account opening packages and beneficial ownership certifications. Plaid and MX bank-feed data is reconciled against statement-PDF extractions when both are present. Custom integrations are available on Enterprise.
Banking evaluation

Send us a sample bundle. We'll show you what comes out.

Send us 50–100 sample documents (de-identified or under NDA). We'll run them through Cogneris and return a structured-extraction report with field-level accuracy, processing time, and compliance posture. No commitment.

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