From 30 Days to 30 Minutes: How Automation is Revolutionising Financial Due Diligence

Ask any loan officer what takes up most of their day, and you’ll hear the same complaint: bank statement reviews. Think about it – if you’re spending 2-3 hours per application, that’s basically half your work week just on paperwork. No wonder loan officers are burning out.

Sure, this manual approach worked fine when processing dozens of applications monthly. But with India’s lending market set to hit $2.4 billion by 2030, it’s become a serious bottleneck.

And there’s no better solution making a measurable impact than automation in financial due diligence. What once took weeks can now be completed in under an hour with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud-based analysis platforms that expertly integrate multiple technologies to deliver instant, yet deeper insights and stronger compliance.

This is where Precisa, India’s leading bank statement analysis platform, makes the difference. Trusted by 300+ clients across 15+ countries and supporting 500+ banks, Precisa has helped DSAs reduce processing time from 2 hours to 30 minutes per application, and forensic auditors cut investigation time from 30-45 days to 25-30 minutes.

The Breaking Point: Why Manual Due Diligence Can’t Scale

While manual due diligence has served well in the past, it creates bottlenecks in meeting the demands of a digitally evolved credit environment and navigating the associated risks. Here’s a list of pain points:

Time-Consuming Processes

Bank statement verification essentials—sorting transactions, categorising expenses, and identifying income patterns—usually require 2-3 hours per application. This extends loan processing timelines by several weeks, often causing institutions to lose competitive deals to faster fintech competitors.

Inconsistency in Assessment

Human reviewers may interpret identical financial data differently, which increases variability in assessment and biased lending decisions. Categorising transactions inconsistently, miscalculating incomes and expenses, and overlooking or missing red flags due to fatigue are common challenges even expert reviewers face.

Limitation in Scalability

Incapacity to accommodate high loan application volume is a bigger challenge these days. Shortage of staff during peak season diminishes institutional growth potential and increases pre-application processing cost.

Insufficiency in Detecting Frauds

With cyber crimes and money mules skyrocketing, manual processes struggle to identify subtle signs of sophisticated fraud patterns without real-time detection capabilities. Identifying doctored statements, round-tripping of funds, and synthetic transactions within an hour exceeds human capacity.

Pressure from RBI & Others

Complying with evolving guidelines imposed by multiple regulatory bodies manually overwhelms even experienced lenders, which typically leads to audit gaps and high compliance costs.

In the context of growing borrower bases and demand for faster turnarounds, these drawbacks make manual processes highly unviable. 

How Precisa’s AI-Powered Platform Transforms Financial Due Diligence

Precisa’s artificial intelligence-led financial due diligence tools do not just replace manual labour but also improve quality, reliability, and compliance by reducing underwriting risks. Here’s how Precisa addresses each challenge:

OCR for Data Extraction

Precisa’s OCR technology and machine learning models  extract data from unstructured bank statements with the highest accuracy, whether uploaded as PDFs, scanned copies, or images, without any person operating the systems.

Automated Transaction Categorisation

Transactions like income, salaries, EMIs, credit cards, utility bills, vendor payments, investments, and more can be sorted into relevant categories in minutes, if not seconds.

Standardising this process significantly improves decision-making reliability and reduces subjective interpretation, regardless of how complex the applications are.

Cloud-Based Architecture

Users can access, back up, and retrieve financial data remotely in real-time through secured cloud-based platforms.

This flexibility allows investors and lenders to make faster and more accurate decisions without geographical constraints or infrastructural boundaries.

AI-Powered Scoring Model

Unlike human-biased credit scores, AI models analyse recent financial behaviour, including trends, patterns, and anomalies.

Tools with advanced algorithms generate repayment likelihood scores based on income consistency, average balances, spending habits, and transaction types. They flag risks instantly, giving teams early visibility into accurate financial assessments.

Counterparty Analysis

Advanced bank statement analysers now help investors analyse and visualise the relationships between borrowers and the parties they interact with, such as other financial institutions, venture capitalists (VC), digital wallets, and suppliers.

Grouping counterparties into unique categories and frequency analysis enables lenders to gain insights into borrowers’ dependencies and creditworthiness.

Compliance Management & Audit Trails

With all data trails recorded and time-stamped, lenders can maintain transparent audit logs for regulators and internal compliance teams.

Built-in security checks further help banks and investors meet industry security standards through streamlined processes.

Seamless Integration

With faultless API integration capabilities, lenders can connect automated analysis platforms with their core banking process, and loan origination and management systems to streamline workflows.

For instance, when a loan application is approved, a loan management system can automatically retrieve the applicant’s repayment behaviour and current spending patterns and raise alarms if it notices a potential delinquency.

Account Aggregator Integration

Precisa’s Account Aggregator integration enables real-time data fetching directly from banks with customer consent. This eliminates the risk of document tampering and provides verified, authentic financial data for analysis. The integration aligns with India’s regulatory framework while ensuring faster, more reliable due diligence processes.

These capabilities have delivered measurable results: DSAs using Precisa reduced processing time from 2 hours to 30 minutes per application, while forensic auditors cut investigation time from 30-45 days to 25-30 minutes.

The best part? Your team can integrate Precisa with different loan origination systems. You can combine both capabilities to automate initial checks, detect unusual patterns in real-time, and free up loan officers’ time so they can focus on exception cases. 

The Takeaway

Bottom line? The lending world is changing fast. Banks that jump on automation now will leave their competitors in the dust. 

Automation tools, like Precisa’s AI-powered bank statement analyser, henceforth, will play a major role in helping investors, VCs, and banks ramp up their due diligence operations.

The earlier the investment, the better the results in reducing incidences of bank fraud and developing a sustainable, profitable, and scalable business.Ready to see how Precisa can transform your due diligence timeline from days to minutes?

Book a free demo and discover why 300+ financial institutions trust Precisa for their bank statement analysis needs.