An advisory firm sees the same reporting problem at institution after institution: templates rebuilt in spreadsheets, validation rules discovered weeks after submission, a quarter-end spent reconciling figures that were already correct somewhere else.
What does not change between clients belongs in a product, not a project. So Sigill is built on the rulebook itself — the Data Point Model, the official validation rules, the filing rules — not on one more set of hand-maintained templates.
Thomas NilssonFounder
Joined FCG — now Advisense — as its eighth employee and became one of the firm's first partners, as Head of Sales and a member of its executive committee and boards. Over nine years it grew from seven people to around 200 and into a leading Nordic advisory firm in risk, compliance and financial regulation, through two changes of ownership: first Bridgepoint, then IK.
He built the firm's commercial offering, advised C-level clients at banks, insurers and fund managers through their regulatory programmes — including Solvency II for several of the largest Nordic insurers — and went on to run FCG Fonder as CEO, a ManCo overseeing 30+ funds across 15 clients.
Most recently he spent five years as Commercial Director, COO and CFO of the payments fintech Surfboard Payments, taking it through regulatory licensing and commercial scale-up. Advising institutions on reporting, then owning the obligation from inside a payment institution, is a direct route to the conviction behind Sigill: this is a data problem wearing a compliance costume, and it belongs in a product.
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Reporting teams are not asking for another dashboard. They are asking for the quarter to close without a rejection, and for the figures to mean the same thing in every template that uses them. That is a narrow, unglamorous ambition, and it is the whole one: every datapoint validated, every submission sealed.
It also means we take the national returns as seriously as the EBA frameworks. An institution's year is not complete when the European half is done — and a product built from the advisory side knows exactly which half tends to get left to the spreadsheet.