Glossary
A
- AI Act
- EU rules for AI systems, set by risk level and by the role of provider or deployer.
- Regulation
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- AI Brain
- Reltime's engine for turning a plain-language requirement into a configured workflow on an approved regulatory template. In build. Every generated workflow is reviewed and approved by people before it runs.
- Technology
- AMLR
- The EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation. One rulebook for due diligence and ongoing monitoring.
- Regulation
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- Anchoring
- Registering a fingerprint on the verification network, creating a fixed reference every later check is measured against.
- Evidence and Verification
- API
- The interface through which systems exchange data and trigger actions. Reltime connects API to API, inside the systems you already run.
- Technology
- Approval Gate
- A control point that holds a payment, release or change until the required approvals are anchored.
- Trust and Governance
- Audit Trail
- The ordered record of actions, changes and decisions, showing what happened and who was responsible.
- Evidence and Verification
C
- CCD2
- The Consumer Credit Directive. New rules for consumer lending, including buy now pay later.
- Regulation
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- Compliance
- Meeting the rules that apply to your organisation. Reltime supplies the controls and the evidence. Responsibility stays with you.
- Trust and Governance
- Continuous Trust
- Access and risk are re-evaluated the moment relevant information changes. A revoked credential triggers a new decision on the next request.
- Trust and Governance
- CRA
- The Cyber Resilience Act. Security requirements for products with digital elements sold in the EU.
- Regulation
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D
- Digital Fingerprint (Hash)
- A short value calculated from data. Change one character and the fingerprint changes. The document itself never leaves your systems.
- Evidence and Verification
- Digital Signature
- Cryptographic proof that data was signed with a specific key and has not changed since. Bound to a person or organisation through a trusted identity process.
- Evidence and Verification
- DORA
- EU rules for the digital operational resilience of financial entities and their ICT providers.
- Regulation
- See the rail →Dates in the calendar →Official source ↗
E
- eIDAS 2
- The EU framework for digital identity and trust services, including the EU Digital Identity Wallet.
- Regulation
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- Exception
- An event outside the normal rules or pattern. It is flagged, assigned and decided, with the decision on record.
- Trust and Governance
F
- Finality
- The point at which the network confirms a transaction for good. On Reltime this happens within two seconds.
- Technology
G
- Governed Verification Layer
- A layer connected to your existing systems that checks every critical action against identity, role and policy, and records evidence anyone authorised can verify. Governance defines who sets the rules, who approves exceptions and who answers for them.
- Trust and Governance
N
- NIS2
- EU cybersecurity rules for essential and important entities in 18 sectors.
- Regulation
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O
- Off-Chain
- Data that stays in your own systems. Only fingerprints and references are anchored on the network.
- Technology
P
- PLD
- The Product Liability Directive. Liability for defective products, now including software.
- Regulation
- See the rail →Dates in the calendar →Official source ↗
R
- Real-Time Alert
- A notification the moment a connected system detects a defined condition, sent to the team responsible.
- Evidence and Verification
- Regulatory Rail
- Reltime's configured workflow for one regulatory requirement, built from four elements. Events, proofs, actions and reports.
- Technology
- Rule Version
- The exact policy that applied when a decision was made, recorded with the decision.
- Evidence and Verification
T
- Timestamp
- The recorded time of an event, anchored so it cannot be moved afterwards.
- Evidence and Verification
V
- Verifiable Evidence
- A record whose origin, signature and integrity can be checked by an authorised third party, without access to your systems.
- Evidence and Verification
- Verification
- Checking a record or claim against its evidence and rules.
- Evidence and Verification
- Verification Receipt
- The record of one action with its evidence. Who acted, under which rule version, when, and the fingerprint that proves the record is unchanged.
- Evidence and Verification
Z
- Zero Trust
- Every request proves who is asking, in which role and with what authority, wherever it comes from. Being inside the network earns nothing.
- Trust and Governance