CUSTOMER CASE STUDY · MAS REGULATORY REPORTING

The Monetary Authority of Singapore introduced Quarterly Data Collection (QDC) as a new mandatory return for licensed fund management companies. It spans multiple sections drawing on data from custodians, brokers, and accounting systems that rarely speak the same language.

Standing up a new regulatory return on a fixed deadline is the kind of problem that exposes how scalable a firm’s data infrastructure really is. Where the underlying data layer can be extended cleanly, a new return is a few weeks of incremental work. Where it cannot, firms either rebuild parts of their stack or fall back to spreadsheets — estimated at two to four weeks of manual effort each quarter according to industry survey, with the corresponding error and audit risk.

Avanda Investment Management, a Singapore-based asset manager, already used Optimai’s Investment Data Warehouse as the foundation for its day-to-day data and reporting. The question for the new MAS return was not how to build it from scratch — it was how quickly the existing platform could be extended to handle it, in time for the 4Q 2025 submission window.

THE RESULTS

Avanda submitted its first MAS QDC return for 4Q 2025 on schedule, filed against a controlled, auditable data set rather than a manually assembled one. The same Investment Data Warehouse foundation that supports day-to-day data and reporting now also carries the new regulatory return — without parallel pipelines or duplicated logic.

MAS QDC questionnaire is populated end-to-end from Investment Data Warehouse data.

Delivered as a RAAE-driven extension — no rebuild of the underlying platform was required.

Full audit trail — every figure traceable to its source system — sits behind every submission.

Validation catches missing classifications and data gaps before they reach MAS; once an operator resolves an issue, the fix is captured and re-applied automatically every quarter after — and stays editable when the right answer changes.

WHY THIS MATTERS FOR MAS-REGULATED FIRMS

The firms that absorb a new return cleanly are the ones whose data foundation can be extended — not the ones that have to rebuild around each new requirement.

Avanda’s 4Q 2025 QDC submission landed on the same Investment Data Warehouse that already powers its day-to-day reporting, with RAAE doing the heavy lifting on the new application layer. The next return — and the one after that — starts from the same place, not from scratch.