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Call Compliance Monitoring

Call compliance monitoring that reviews every bank call and chat, pins each finding to the second it was said, and leaves every decision to a QA analyst

Every call and chat reviewed, not a sample, and each finding confirmed within a day.

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demo100%of calls and chats reviewed in September, 2,104,380 calls and 381,920 chats, against a former 1.5% sample by hand
demo21,880flagsof 30,926 removed by the verifier with a written reason before any person saw them
demo486notices of errormissed by bankers in September, each confirmed and opened as a Reg E claim dated the day of the call
target< 1dayfrom the call to a decided finding
In short

What is Call Compliance Monitoring?

Call compliance monitoring is how a bank checks what its bankers say on calls and chats for complaints, Regulation E notices of error, missed disclosures and UDAAP risk. Call Compliance Monitoring reviews every call and chat instead of a sample: agents transcribe, redact, check the rules for each call type and verify every flag, and a QA analyst confirms or dismisses each finding.

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The problem

Why call compliance monitoring by sample misses the calls that matter

Call compliance monitoring is how a bank checks what its bankers say on calls and chats: whether a complaint was logged, whether a Regulation E notice of error was taken, whether a fee, a hold or a protection was stated accurately, and whether the statements each call type requires were made. Most banks still do it by sampling one or two percent of calls by hand. At Corvane National Bank, the demo bank, QA listened to 8 calls per banker a month, about 1.5% of what was said, and a dispute said on the other 98.5% starts a 10-business-day clock nobody sees.

Bankers log only the complaints customers name as complaints, while the bank's policy counts any expression of dissatisfaction. One wrong knowledge article can put the same misleading advice on dozens of calls before a sample finds it. Keyword tools flag thousands of harmless phrases, so reviewers skim. Call Compliance Monitoring puts seven agents in front of every call and chat, with a verifier that removes false positives, so a QA analyst spends the day deciding, not listening.

typical1–2%of calls commonly checked by hand at banks that sample
typical10business daysto investigate a notice of error, oral or written, counted from the day the customer gave it
demo37callsin three weeks where customers were told to call the merchant first, all from one wrong knowledge article
Where the days go between a call and its caseestimated
By hand36 days
With the solution1.9 days
  • Waiting to be drawn into a sample and heard10 → 0.5 d
  • Listening, scoring and checking the rule1 → 0.2 d
  • Telling the supervisor and Compliance3 → 0.1 d
  • Entering the Reg E claim or complaint by hand2 → 0.1 d
  • Finding the same words on other calls20 → 1 d

Estimated, for one finding on one call: the 'before' column follows the monthly sample, the email to the supervisor, the case entered by hand and the monthly pattern report described in the working solution's design; the 'after' column is the overnight review, a decision the next day and the nightly pattern search. Our arithmetic, kept modest.

How it works

How a call is reviewed

Seven agents review every call and chat and a verifier re-reads each flag; a QA analyst confirms and the manager checks.

What comes in
Calls and chats in2.5 million a month · recordings, chats, accounts, cards, complaints
Agents at work
Listening agenttranscribe and redact
Then
Complaint agentdissatisfaction, logged?
Rules agentrules by call type
Then
Verifier agentre-reads the whole call
Then
Case agentclaim, complaint, coaching
Pattern agentcause and lookback
A person decides
QA analystconfirms or dismisses; manager checks
What comes out
Reg E claim on the call date
Complaint logged
Kept for examiners
One case, step by step

One call, through call compliance monitoring to a Reg E claim dated the day she called

Denise H. called Corvane National Bank's Consumer Card Services on Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 14:06: call 26-1020-58813, 7 minutes 48 seconds, with banker Tyler Brandt of Team 14 in Columbus. Here is what happened to it, screen by screen, in the working solution.

  1. 01Overnight

    Every call and chat reviewed before the team starts

    Seven agents

    On October 20 the agents reviewed 98,412 calls and 17,606 chats. The Listening agent transcribed and redacted them, the Complaint and Rules agents raised 1,426 flags, and the Verifier agent removed 1,008 of them, so 418 reached the QA team.

    27 findings on 22 calls and chats, 3 to act on today.

  2. 02Wednesday morning

    Denise H. first, from the calls with a running clock

    Alana Brooks · QA Analyst

    Alana's queue opens on Act on today, and Denise H. is first. The whole call is one waveform, colored by who is speaking, with pins labeled by rule at 1:58, 3:12, 4:26 and 6:40, a hollow pin at 5:22, and green ticks where the recording notice, authentication and closing were made.

  3. 033:12 into the call

    A notice of error, and the banker sends her to the merchant

    Rules agent

    At 3:12 Denise says she never made a $412.60 charge at Brightline Electronics, and the banker answers that she needs to call the merchant first. The rule in plain words sits beside the excerpt, the Rules agent at 98% and the Verifier at 99%, and citation 1 opens 12 CFR 1005.11(b)(1) with the words that matter highlighted.

    A banker never tells a customer to contact the merchant first, visit a branch, sign an affidavit or file a police report before the bank investigates.

  4. 045:22 into the call

    A false positive removed, and still on the waveform

    Verifier agent

    The Rules agent flagged "I can send you a new card, there's no fee for that" as a fee statement. The verifier read the consumer fee schedule, where a replacement debit card with standard delivery is $0, and removed it. The hollow pin stays visible with the reason, and Alana can restore it as a finding.

    Rules agent 72%, verifier 31%.

  5. 059:44

    Confirming starts the Regulation E clock on the call date

    Alana Brooks · QA Analyst

    Alana confirms the notice of error missed at 3:12. The notice date is Tuesday, October 20, the day of the call, not today: investigate by Tuesday, November 3 (10 business days, 9 left), or, if credited provisionally, by Monday, January 18, 2027, the 90-day limit for a point-of-sale debit card. Changing the notice date needs a reason and the Card Disputes lead.

  6. 06Seconds later

    Each case opened, step by step, for its owner

    Case agent

    The Case agent opens Reg E claim DSP-26-118204 for Card Disputes with October 20 as the notice date, remediation REM-26-0431 for the claim acknowledgment letter, which a second person approves, and coaching COA-26-7742 for Jordan Pike, the Team 14 supervisor. The 3:12 pin on the waveform turns to a check.

    No case opens before a person confirms.

  7. 07In Card Disputes

    The claim waits for Card Disputes to accept it

    Victor Salas · Card Disputes Specialist

    On the cases screen the new claim waits for Card Disputes, due November 3. Victor accepts it, checking the notice date against the call excerpt in the case drawer, beside the other open cases from confirmed findings: a complaint, a UDAAP issue with a lookback proposed, an elder referral and an SCRA referral.

  8. 0810:15

    From one finding to its cause, and a lookback she approves

    Rosalind Mercer · Compliance Monitoring Manager

    The Pattern agent found the same advice on 37 calls since October 1, by 11 bankers at 3 sites, all after knowledge article KB-CARD-118, written for credit card disputes, was linked to debit card questions on September 28. The lookback preview finds 214 calls, 163 customers with no claim, $41,870 disputed and 51 past 90 days; it opens nothing until Rosalind approves, and the Chief Compliance Officer is told of a possible self-identified issue.

  9. 091:1 on Thursday

    Coaching from the bank's own words, sent by the supervisor

    Jordan Pike · Contact Center Supervisor

    Jordan sees only confirmed findings for his team: Tyler's excerpt at 3:12 and a note drafted from card dispute procedure CARD-DSP-02, which says the knowledge article was wrong for debit cards and gives the words that work. He edits it, sends it and books a 1:1 for Thursday at 10:30.

    Agents never rate, discipline or report a banker.

  10. 10Exam-ready

    Every decision on the audit trail, and a pack for examiners

    Gregory Hale · Chief Compliance Officer

    The confirmation, the claim the Case agent opened, the source Alana read and the lookback preview are on an audit trail kept five years. The export pack for an OCC examination, July 1 – September 30, 2026, holds 19,240 findings with decisions and excerpts and 1,402 Reg E claims, with customer names and account numbers redacted, and goes out only when Gregory releases it.

Who it’s for

Built for everyone who answers for what is said on a call.

The same call, seen by the people who decide, check, coach and own the case: what their day looked like, and what it looks like now.

AB
Alana BrooksQA Analyst · decides about 30 calls and chats with findings a day
QA Analyst, Compliance Monitoring
Before
Listened to eight calls per banker a month and filled a scorecard by hand, knowing the rest went unheard.
Now
Decides what the agents found on every call, reading the excerpt, the rule and the verifier's re-read, and confirms or dismisses with a reason.
RM
Rosalind MercerCompliance Monitoring Manager · checks the team's decisions, owns UDAAP issues
Compliance Monitoring Manager
Before
Re-sampled a few hundred calls a quarter and found patterns in a monthly report, if at all.
Now
Checks 10% of confirmations and every High dismissal with a pre-check beside each, and approves lookbacks traced to a cause.
JP
Jordan PikeContact Center Supervisor · coaches 12 bankers on Team 14 in Columbus
Contact Center Supervisor
Before
Heard about a bad call by email, days later, without the words the banker should have used.
Now
Gets the 20 seconds that matter and a note drafted from the bank's own procedure, and sees no coaching proposed when the cause was a system.
VS
Victor SalasCard Disputes Specialist · accepts Reg E claims
Card Disputes Specialist
Before
Received disputes found on calls weeks late, dated the day someone noticed them.
Now
Accepts each claim with the call excerpt and the clock beside it, the notice date already the day the customer spoke.
Built on the engine

7 agents. Each with one job, and hard limits.

Seven agents review every call and chat and a verifier re-reads each flag; a QA analyst confirms and the manager checks.

Listening agent

Transcribes every call and reads every chat, separates the speakers, records the call type and whether the recording notice played, and redacts card numbers, security codes and SSNs.

  • Never alters the original recording
  • Never stores unredacted card data
Complaint agent

Finds every expression of dissatisfaction the bank's Complaint Policy CP-3 counts as a complaint, whether or not the customer uses the word, and checks the complaint management system for a log.

  • Never logs a complaint before a person confirms
Rules agent

Checks each call against the rules for its call type, comparing what was said with the fee schedule, hold notices, account records and procedures: notices of error, required statements, fees, holds, threats, referrals and card data.

  • Read-only on every system
  • Flags only; never decides
Verifier agent

Re-reads every flag against the whole call and its sources, on a second model family, and keeps it, removes it with a written reason, or disagrees and proposes a dismissal code.

  • Must keep a finding before a person sees it
  • 2% of its removals are sampled for QA
Case agent

On confirmation, opens the right case for the right owner: a Reg E claim or complaint dated the day of the call, a coaching note, a referral, a remediation or a technology case.

  • Opens nothing before a person confirms
  • Letters wait for a second approval
Pattern agent

Finds the same finding across calls, bankers and sites, traces it to a knowledge article, an IVR change or a virtual-assistant answer version, and proposes fixes and lookbacks.

  • Proposes; a manager approves any lookback
  • Proposes no coaching when the cause is a system
Sampling agent

Draws the Compliance Monitoring Manager's check sample and pre-checks each decision against the evidence.

  • Pre-checks only; never agrees or sends back
  • Never samples a manager's own decisions
QA Analyst

Confirms or dismisses with a reason. The agents propose; a named person decides.

Ask in plain words

Ask about any call, rule or pattern

The assistant answers about the calls and chats in the queue, the rules, the cases they opened and the patterns behind them, with every source cited, and then opens the screen.

What needs me before 5 pm today?

Three, all in Act on today: Denise H., a notice of error on a $412.60 charge, told to call the merchant first; Daniel F., a $600 ATM notice of error in chat, told to visit a branch and sign an affidavit; and Gloria P., 81, a $9,000 bail wire she was told to keep secret, which has not gone out yet.

Why did the verifier remove the pin at 5:22?

Because the banker was right. Tyler Brandt said a new debit card has no fee; the verifier read the consumer fee schedule, where a replacement debit card with standard delivery is $0, so it never reached the queue as a finding.

Which other calls told a customer to call the merchant first?

37 calls since October 1, by 11 bankers at all three sites, 9 of them on Team 14. They share one cause: knowledge article KB-CARD-118, written for credit card disputes, has also been linked to debit card questions since September 28. The pattern agent proposes a 90-day lookback and a fix to the article.

Draft the coaching note for Tyler Brandt

Drafted for Jordan Pike, his supervisor, from the confirmed findings only, with the words that work from the card dispute procedure. The note says the cause was partly the knowledge article, so it reads as coaching, not blame. Jordan edits and sends it; the assistant never sends coaching itself.

Every screen

The working solution, as it ships.

13 screens from the working solution, on its sample data. Pick one to see it large.

One call, one waveform, a pin at every second that mattersCall 26-1020-58813 with Denise H., Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 14:06, 7 min 48 s. Pins mark Complaint not logged at 1:58, Notice of error missed at 3:12, Misleading statement at 4:26 and Missing disclosure at 6:40, with a hollow pin at 5:22 removed by the verifier; green ticks mark the recording notice, authentication and closing. The 3:12 pin is open: the excerpt, the Regulation E rule in plain words, the proposed finding with four citations, the verifier's re-read at 98% and 99%, and one decision, Confirm finding.
The QA analyst's queue, sorted by regulatory clockAlana Brooks on Wednesday, October 21, 2026: 27 findings on 22 calls and chats, 3 to act on today. First the calls where a clock is running or a customer is at risk, then the one the verifier disagrees with, then seven ready for a decision, each row with a small waveform. Filters by what the agents found, by channel and by clock; customers show as first name and initial.
Every statement cites its sourceCitation 1 on the finding opens the passage the agent relied on: 12 CFR 1005.11(b)(1), the Regulation E notice of error, an oral or written notice that lets the bank identify the customer's name and account and says why she believes there is an error. Opening a source is logged.
A second agent removes false positives, and shows themThe hollow pin at 5:22: the Rules agent flagged "I can send you a new card, there's no fee for that" as a fee statement, and the verifier removed it, citing the consumer fee schedule, where a replacement debit card with standard delivery is $0. A QA analyst can restore it as a finding, counted as an override for model risk.
Confirming starts the Regulation E clock on the call dateConfirm: notice of error missed at 3:12. Notice date Tuesday, October 20, 2026, the date of the call; investigate by Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (10 business days, 9 left); if credited provisionally, Monday, January 18, 2027 (90 days, point-of-sale debit card). The dialog lists the Reg E claim, the acknowledgment letter Card Disputes approves, and the excerpt for the supervisor.
The case agent opens each case, step by stepConfirmed by Alana Brooks. The Case agent opened Reg E claim DSP-26-118204 for Card Disputes with October 20 as the notice date, remediation REM-26-0431 for the customer letter, which a second person approves, and coaching COA-26-7742 for Jordan Pike, Team 14.
Every confirmed finding becomes a case with an owner and a clock11 open cases from confirmed findings, filterable by Reg E claims, complaints, coaching, remediation and UDAAP issues. New today: the coaching, the remediation and Reg E claim DSP-26-118204, waiting for Card Disputes to accept. Clocks run from the date the customer spoke.
Coaching from the bank's own words, sent by the supervisorJordan Pike, supervisor of Team 14 in Columbus: Tyler Brandt's confirmed excerpt at 3:12 and a coaching note drafted from card dispute procedure CARD-DSP-02. A card for another call reads No coaching, because the cause was an IVR change, not the banker.
From one finding to its cause, and a lookbackTold to call the merchant first: 37 calls since October 1, 11 bankers, 3 sites, one cause, knowledge article KB-CARD-118. The 90-day lookback preview finds 214 calls, 163 customers with no claim, $41,870 disputed and 51 past 90 days. The preview opens nothing; Rosalind Mercer approves it.
Nine findings, one cause, one decisionNo recording notice on 9 calls transferred from branch lines, from callers in all-party consent states, traced to IVR change CHG-26-4471. One finding for nine calls, attached to a technology case, with no coaching. Any call can be taken out, and bulk decisions are limited to Low findings with the same rule, cause and evidence, at most 50 at a time.
The manager checks a sample, with a pre-checkRosalind Mercer's sample for October 20: 31 of 309 confirmations (10%) and all 9 High dismissals. On one dismissal, the sampling agent's pre-check reads that the hold notice says Tuesday, October 27, not Monday, so the reason contradicts the evidence. She agrees, corrects a reason code, or sends a decision back.
Every call reviewed, and what people confirmedSeptember 2026: 100% reviewed, 2,104,380 calls and 381,920 chats; 9,046 findings reached a person after the verifier removed 21,880 of 30,926 flags; 6,412 confirmed (70.9%); 19 hours median from call to decision, 97.8% inside the review deadline. At-risk work can be moved between QA pods in bulk.
An audit trail and an export pack for examinersWho did what, when, why and on which evidence, people and agents alike, kept five years. The pack for an OCC examination, July 1 – September 30, 2026: 19,240 findings with decisions and excerpts, 1,402 Reg E claims with notice dates, rule and agent versions with 2,113 overrides, customer names and account numbers redacted, released only by the Chief Compliance Officer.
Governance

Call compliance monitoring that stays cited, decided by a person and checked by another.

Ten roles, separated by dutyA QA analyst decides findings; the Compliance Monitoring Manager checks a sample; a supervisor sees only confirmed findings for their own team; Complaint Management and Card Disputes own their cases; the Chief Compliance Officer approves rules, agent versions, settings and export packs. Nobody checks their own work.
A second person on every letter, closing and lookbackEvery customer letter, remediation, complaint acknowledgment and complaint closing needs a second person; every High dismissal is checked by the manager; a lookback needs the manager's approval; and no one approves their own change.
Clocks start the day the customer spokeA confirmed notice of error opens a Reg E claim with the call date as the notice date, and a complaint is logged with the call date as its received date, so a regulatory clock is never restarted by the review.
Card data redacted, names masked, referrals confidentialCard numbers, security codes and SSNs are redacted from transcripts and the audio copy reviewers hear; QA and supervisors see first names and initials; confidential referrals to the Financial Intelligence Unit never appear on a supervisor, banker or customer view; and every opening of a call, excerpt or case is logged.
Versioned agents, validated before they go livePrompts, models and thresholds are versioned, and every override carries a reason code. A model risk validator runs a new version on a 1,500-interaction golden set, and the Chief Compliance Officer approves it before it goes live. No agent rates, disciplines or reports a banker.
A full audit trail, and an export pack for examinersWho did what, when, why and on which evidence, people and agents alike, kept five years. Export packs for an OCC examination, CFPB supervision, internal audit or the compliance committee are built step by step, redacted and released by a second person.
Configuration

Your monitoring policy, not ours

The thresholds, deadlines and protections every call is held to are settings. Each change is proposed by one person and approved by the Chief Compliance Officer, and the agents use it from the next call.

SettingDefaultChoose from
Verifier minimum confidence to show a finding80%Stepped; a change to 82% is waiting for approval
Removed by the verifier, sampled for QA2%Stepped; changes need the Chief Compliance Officer
Manager check10% of confirmations, 100% of High dismissalsStepped; nobody checks their own decisions
Review deadlinesReg E notices and customers at risk the same business day; High 1, Medium 3, Low 5 business daysEscalates to the manager at 75%
Bulk decisionsUp to 50Low findings with one rule, cause and evidence only
Required statementsSix call types, 6 to 14 rules eachAll-party consent states checked for the recording notice
RetentionFindings and evidence five years; recordings seven yearsReg E records at least two years (12 CFR 1005.13); recordings under records schedule RS-14
RedactionCard numbers, security codes and SSNsIn transcripts and the audio copy reviewers hear (PCI DSS 4.0); locked on
Connections

Works with the systems a contact center and Compliance already run on

Contact center platformcalls, chats, routing, banker and team
Call recording and transcriptionaudio and speaker turns
Complaint management systemreads complaints, and logs one only on confirmation
Case managementReg E claims, referrals and remediation, written only on confirmation
Core banking system and card processoraccounts, holds, opt-in status and card transactions, read-only
Policies and procedures libraryprocedures, the fee schedule and scripts, read-only
What it changes

The difference, in numbers.

Every figure is labelled: a target the solution is built to, an estimate, a typical published result, or a proven one.

target
100%
of calls and chats reviewed, instead of a sample of about 1.5% checked by hand
By hand1.5%
With agents100%
typical
10business days
to investigate a notice of error, counted from the day the customer spoke on the call
target
< 1day
from the call to a decided finding, so a missed dispute becomes a claim the next morning
Next day
9 of 10 days left

Sources: 12 CFR 1005.11 (Regulation E error resolution: 10 business days, or 45 or 90 days with provisional credit) and 12 CFR 1005.13 (records) · Federal Reserve, Consumer Compliance Outlook, third issue 2025 (conditions on starting an investigation that examiners cite) · PCI DSS 4.0, requirement 3.3.1 · one to two percent of calls sampled by hand: commonly reported in industry and vendor reports · "demo" = seen in the working solution, on its sample data · "target" = design goal, measured in the live solution · "typical" = published figures and rules · "estimated" = our arithmetic, kept modest. Corvane National Bank, Brightline Electronics and the people, calls, cases and numbers named on this page are fictional: characters and sample data in the working solution.

Questions

What compliance and contact center leaders ask about call compliance monitoring.

What is call compliance monitoring?

Call compliance monitoring is how a bank checks what its bankers say on calls and chats for complaints, Regulation E notices of error, missed disclosures and UDAAP risk. Call Compliance Monitoring reviews every call and chat instead of a sample: agents transcribe, redact, check the rules for each call type and verify every flag, and a QA analyst confirms or dismisses each finding.

Can call monitoring compliance cover every call, not a sample?

Yes. In the working solution's sample month the agents reviewed 2,104,380 calls and 381,920 chats. A separate Verifier agent re-read every flag against the whole call and removed 21,880 of 30,926 with a written reason, so 9,046 reached a person; removed pins stay visible, and 2% of removals are sampled for QA.

What counts as a Regulation E notice of error on a call?

Under 12 CFR 1005.11, an oral or written notice that lets the bank identify the customer and the account and says why the customer believes there is an error, such as an unrecognized debit card charge. It starts the investigation clock; requiring the customer to contact the merchant, visit a branch or sign an affidavit first is a condition examiners cite. When a QA analyst confirms a missed notice, the Reg E claim opens with the call date as the notice date.

How does it catch complaints customers make on calls?

The Complaint agent applies the bank's complaint policy, which counts any expression of dissatisfaction whether or not the customer says the word complaint, and checks the complaint management system for a log. A confirmed complaint is logged with the call date as its received date, and its acknowledgment letter and closing each need a second officer.

How is card data redacted from call recordings and transcripts?

The Listening agent redacts card numbers, security codes and SSNs from the transcript and the audio copy reviewers hear, and that setting is locked on. It never alters the original recording, so a code caught there stays only until a purge request is approved. PCI DSS 4.0 requirement 3.3.1 says the code is not kept after authorization, and asking for it on a recorded line is itself a rule the agents check.

Does an agent change a record or discipline a banker on its own?

No. Agents flag and propose; no case, claim or complaint opens before a person confirms, and every letter waits for a second approval. No agent rates, disciplines or reports a banker: supervisors see only confirmed findings for their own team, and bankers see only their own coaching.

Do people stay in control of the decisions?

Yes. A QA analyst decides every finding, with a reason code to dismiss or change one; the Compliance Monitoring Manager checks 10% of confirmations and every High dismissal; and rules, agent versions, settings and export packs need the Chief Compliance Officer. Nobody checks or approves their own work.

How long does it take to go live?

The Agentic Solution Engine builds and deploys it from your requirements and documents, such as your rule library, procedures, fee schedule and complaint policy, with a sample of your recorded calls and chats, and it goes live once every quality gate has passed. We will walk you through it on your own calls first.

See it on
your own calls.

We'll run Call Compliance Monitoring on a sample of your own recorded calls and chats.