Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and other markets across Asia, as a dedicated deployment with local currency, payments, regulation and language built into the implementation.
Asia · Loan origination system
Loan origination system for banks and lenders in Asia
One origination platform for SME, commercial, property and consumer loans, built for each institution with its own credit policy, its regulator's rules and its customers' languages, and integrated with the systems you run.
In brief
What a loan origination system does in Asia
A loan origination system (LOS) is the software between an application and a booked loan: intake, documents, checks, credit assessment, approval and the facility documents.
Covenant Desk is the AI lending system for mid-size and enterprise banks and for lenders with 50 or more staff across Asia, including a bank's local SME desk or a subsidiary finance company. An AI banking agent reads documents, builds client profiles, prepares credit memos and facility letters and raises early-warning flags; credit officers approve. Each market has its own supervisor, credit bureau, data protection law and language, so Covenant Desk is built to your operation and delivered as part of the implementation, with local rules carried as configuration rather than rebuilt.
Asia
What a bank or lender in Asia needs from an LOS
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Local regulation as configuration
Rate caps, disclosure, credit file rules and reports differ by market. They sit in policy tables your team can see, not in custom code.
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Documents read by AI
OCR and AI document extraction for financial statements, bank statements, certificates, ID and business registration documents, with every figure linked to its page and line.
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The languages your borrowers read
English and Traditional Chinese are in the product, and other languages are built into your deployment.
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Data that stays in market
A dedicated instance in the cloud region your regulator expects, or your own data centre.
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A credit file that survives an audit
Documents, spread, grade, approval and every change in an append-only, hash-chained log.
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Its own core, or yours
Covenant Desk includes its own core banking engine for lending and integrates with the core banking system you already run through APIs or file exchange.
Covenant Desk
How Covenant Desk covers it
All of this is available, built to your operation and delivered as part of the implementation.
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Intake
The borrower, directors, shareholders and guarantors in one case. Staff open cases or the borrower applies on your own online form; a secure upload link and a checklist collect the documents. Identity numbers are stored encrypted and shown masked.
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Document extraction
OCR and AI document extraction read financial statements, bank statements, certificates, ID and business registration documents, and the figures go to the right fields, each linked to its page and line.
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Assess
Financial spreading by period; DSCR, leverage and interest cover; bank-account analysis; a versioned 100-point scorecard in which missing evidence shows as unassessed.
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AI banking agent
The AI builds and edits client profiles, prepares the credit memo and facility letter from your templates, summarises the file, schedules client and committee meetings and drafts communications. Every action is logged, permissioned and reviewable.
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Decide
AI prepares the decision; your credit officers approve it, with approval limits by amount, escalation, four-eyes control on exceptions and a full audit trail.
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Core banking engine
Covenant Desk includes its own core banking engine for lending: loan accounts, ledger and postings, interest and fees, repayment and collections, and disbursement. It also integrates with the core banking systems you already run, through APIs or file exchange, so you can adopt it as the lending core or run it beside your existing core.
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Asia rules, currency and payments
Each market's rate and fee rules, currency, payment rail and document templates are built into your deployment as part of the implementation, and your team tests them on your own cases before go-live.
Evaluation
Questions to ask an LOS vendor in Asia
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Can it be built to our operation?
Products, approval matrix, documents and reports should follow how your institution lends.
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Where does our data sit?
Database, documents, backups and any AI calls.
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Can credit policy change without a release?
Thresholds and grade bands as a policy table with effective dates.
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How is the rollout phased?
And what does your team test before real data goes in?
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What does the AI do?
Look for an AI that reads, drafts, summarises and flags, with every action logged and permissioned, and approval left to your credit officers.
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How do we leave?
Full export and written confirmation of deletion.
FAQ
Questions banks and lenders ask
It is for mid-size and enterprise banks and for lending companies with 50 or more staff, including group-owned units such as a bank's local SME desk or a subsidiary finance company.
Your choice. Covenant Desk includes its own core banking engine for lending, so you can adopt it as the lending core, or run it beside your existing core and integrate through APIs or file exchange.
AI prepares the decision and your credit officers approve it, with four-eyes control, approval matrices and a full audit trail. Covenant Desk is software and does not lend.
Sources
Official sources, checked 29 October 2026
- Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: Principles for the Management of Credit Risk
- Monetary Authority of Singapore: Notice 612, Credit Files, Grading and Provisioning
- Bank Negara Malaysia
- Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Rules change; check the current text with the regulator and your adviser. This page is not legal advice. Covenant Desk is software: it does not provide loans or make lending decisions.
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