FCA Annex IV · Built for AIFMs

Annex IV filings,
automated.

Upload your prime broker extract. Get a filing-ready AIF001 and AIF002 XML in minutes — not days. Built by the operators who actually file these every quarter.

~3 min
From upload to XML
AIF001 + AIF002
Both reports, one workflow
FCA RegData
Validator-ready output
AIF001_2026.xml · validated
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AIFMReportingInfo xmlns="urn:fsa-gov-uk:MER:AIF001:2">
  <AIFMRecordInfo>
    <FilingType>INIT</FilingType>
    <ReportingPeriodType>H2</>
    <AIFMName>Acme Capital LLP</>
    <PrincipalMarket rank="1">
      <MIC>XCME</>
      <AggregatedValueAmount>42,318,604</>
    </PrincipalMarket>
    <SubAssetType>DER_EQD_FINI</>
    <AUMAmountInEuro>87,400,000</>
  </AIFMRecordInfo>
</AIFMReportingInfo>
 
✓ validated — 0 errors · 0 warnings · ready to submit
Designed for filings to:
FCA RegData AIFMD Annex IV Small AIFM (24(1)) Full-Scope (24(2)) UK & EU Templates

A regulatory burden that hasn't kept up

Most AIFMs still file Annex IV by typing answers into a 200-field web form, copy-pasting from Excel pivots their CCO built five years ago. It's slow, error-prone, and expensive in time the team should be spending on alpha.

RegData · AIF002 manual entry · field 64 of 217
61. Principal Markets — Rank 1 MIC code Done
62. Principal Markets — Rank 2 aggregated value Done
63. Principal Instruments — sub-asset type Done
64. ⚠ Macro-asset type required when entry has SubAssetType Error
65. Principal Exposures — Rank 1 percentage To do
66. Investor concentration — top 5 cumulative % To do
67. Geographic focus — Africa allocation To do
68. Liquidity profile — % within 1 day To do

"Type it. Save. Hit validate. Read the cryptic error. Try again."

The current process punishes everyone who isn't filing 50 funds at scale. Errors only surface after submission — meaning a single bad SubAssetType code can cost a half-day round-trip.

And full-scope AIFMs? They get extra sections — leverage, liquidity buckets, risk measures, counterparty exposures — with conditional logic that's impossible to learn from the form alone.

8–14h
Typical CCO time per filing cycle
2–4×
Validation rejections before clean submit
£25k+
Per year for outsourced regulatory consultants
217
AIF002 fields under full-scope template

Four steps. No manual entry.

From the standard NAV admin / prime broker exports your team already pulls every quarter, straight to validator-ready XML.

1

Upload

Drop in your position appraisal and transaction history Excel files from NAV Consulting, Marex, or any major prime broker. We auto-detect format.

2

Map & review

The engine classifies each instrument by AIFMD sub-asset type, aggregates principal markets and exposures, and shows you every assumption it made — editable inline.

3

Generate

Both AIF001 and AIF002 XMLs are produced from a single workflow, schema-validated against the FCA template before they leave the page.

4

Iterate

Got a validation error from RegData? Paste it back in. The engine resolves it and regenerates — same loop we use internally on real filings.

Built for the way filings actually break

Both reports, one upload

AIF001 (manager-level) and AIF002 (fund-level) generated from the same dataset. No double entry, no reconciliation work between them.

Pre-validation built in

Catches the errors RegData would catch — percentages summing wrong, conditional fields, invalid sub-asset codes — before you submit. Saves the round-trip.

Error-paste loop

If the FCA validator does flag something, paste the error back in. The engine identifies the field, proposes the fix, and regenerates. Loop closes in seconds.

Instrument mapping you can edit

Pre-loaded with the full AIFMD sub-asset taxonomy. Every classification is shown — override per ticker if your fund's products are unusual, and we remember it next quarter.

Period over period diff

Compare this filing against the last one. Spot when AUM, geography, leverage, or counterparty exposure has shifted materially — useful for both compliance and CIO review.

Full audit trail

Every input file, every transformation, every override is preserved. If FCA queries a number 18 months later, the lineage is one click away.

Position data never leaves your tenant

Your portfolio is the most sensitive data your fund holds. Our default architecture keeps it out of any third-party LLM, full stop.

Deterministic engine, not an LLM

The XML generation is rules-based Python, not generative AI. No position data is ever sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, or any third-party model.

Single-tenant deployment available

For funds with strict data residency requirements, we offer a containerised deployment that runs entirely inside your own AWS, Azure, or GCP account.

Optional AI assist, fully redacted

For the validation-error fix-up loop, we send only the error message and the abstract structure of the offending field — never ISINs, amounts, or counterparty names.

Encrypted in transit and at rest

TLS 1.3 end-to-end. AES-256 at rest. Files auto-purge after 30 days unless your retention policy says otherwise. SOC 2 Type II in flight.

Your data, your perimeter

The decision to send positions to an LLM should never be the user's accidental click. We've built around that.

No model training UK data residency SOC 2 Type II in flight

Plans that scale with your filing cadence

Annual subscription. Cancel any time. Bring your own deployment if you need it.

Single AIFM

Starter

For small AIFMs filing AIF001 + AIF002 once or twice a year.

£ 4,800 /year
  • 1 AIFM, up to 2 funds
  • Unlimited filings per year
  • Pre-validation against FCA template
  • Error-paste fix loop
  • Email support
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Self-hosted

Enterprise

For funds requiring data residency or single-tenant deployment.

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  • Self-hosted in your VPC
  • SSO, role-based access, IP whitelist
  • Custom prime broker integrations
  • Dedicated implementation engineer
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Built by hedge fund operators

Frontier Reporting was incubated inside Frontier Road Limited — an FCA-authorised investment manager — by the team that runs filings on its own master fund.

We built this for ourselves first.

Every quarter, our compliance officer used to spend the better part of two days populating Annex IV by hand — copy-paste from NAV Consulting exports into RegData, validation rejections, second submission, and a third for good measure.

The core insight: 95% of the work is deterministic. Position file plus a mapping table plus a schema gives you the XML. The only judgment calls are at the edges, and those are the same edges every quarter.

"Once we automated our own filings, the obvious next thing was to let other small AIFMs use it. The pain is universal." — Baptiste Aubert, Frontier Road

We're FCA-authorised, we file these reports for real, and we know what an FCA validator error looks like when it lands in your inbox at 4pm on a deadline day.

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Frontier Road Limited
FCA-Authorised · London

An EM credit hedge fund. Full-scope AIFM. We file AIF001 and AIF002 every cycle on our own master fund, and we built the engine to make our own life easier first.

5+
Years filing Annex IV
FCA
Authorised AIFM
UK
Data residency

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