Stonewake editorial policy for bank desk content
Editorial policy on Stonewake sets how public pages are researched, sourced, labelled, and kept independent of sales pressure for bank export finance, project finance, and commercial real estate desks. Content explains institutions and definitions. It does not teach register-mining or deal-signal workflows that belong in the product.
What this editorial policy covers
This editorial policy applies to glossary entries, hubs, institutions pages, methodology notes, guides, research explainers, compare pages, calculators copy, country datasheets, solutions overviews, public monitoring briefs, and trust pages. Authenticated product UI follows the same evidence discipline in citations methodology, with tenant contractual controls added.
Product evidence detail lives in citations and evidence. Public pages are written for credit-risk, origination, and financial-crime professionals who already know desk vocabulary. The register is peer-to-peer and declarative. Marketing adjectives, invented metrics, and unnamed customer logos are excluded from factory content.
Sourcing rules under the editorial policy
Authoritative public institutions come first under this editorial policy. Preferred sources include OECD, official export credit agency sites, EUR-Lex, gov.uk and UKEF, EXIM and peer ECA publications, Berne Union materials, ICC texts, GLEIF, ESMA, EBA, BIS, FATF, IMF, World Bank, and primary regulators for numbers, dates, thresholds, or mandate statements.
Secondary trade press may appear only when it quotes or links a primary document the page can cite. Every load-bearing institutional fact maps to a frontmatter source that was opened and checked. Missing data stays missing. Absence of a source is never scored as safety on country or screening surfaces.
That posture matches the product evidence rule published on stonewake.ai: customer-visible claims need a stable public URL and a verbatim quote, or they are labelled honestly as Reported rather than Verified. Definitional pages in the glossary cite institutional primers. Where a term such as customer due diligence, adverse media screening, or sanctions screening intersects product capability, the page stays definitional and links methodology rather than disclosing internals.
Independence from sales and sponsorship
Stonewake is sales-led B2B software for banks. Public editorial surfaces are not an affiliate marketplace, sponsored ranking list, or pay-for-placement catalogue of counterparties. Commercial solutions pages may describe high-level product capabilities and invite a demo without inventing performance statistics or naming customer banks.
Editorial selection of glossary terms, hubs, and research topics follows desk utility and institutional coverage, not advertiser briefs. When a page mentions Stonewake product surfaces, it does so at capability level: Deal Book with explainable scores and citations, country composites with source attribution, organisation and country adverse-media screening with analyst confirmation, monitoring briefs, and Excel export of cited sheets. Provider inventories, model vendors, and crawling architecture stay off the public page.
AI use and human review
Some product outputs are AI-drafted and labelled as such, including origination memo drafts inside Deal Book, as stated on the public product overview. Scores and screening verdicts remain drafts for analyst confirmation. Public monitoring briefs verify facts against cited records before publication.
Writing may smooth prose but must not add, remove, or alter a fact, per the public monitoring methodology. Factory explainers follow the honesty norm summarised by ICMJE recommendations: factual claims need support, and honest error is corrected rather than defended. Public trust pages do not claim that AI replaces credit judgment, sanctions list matching, or PEP determination. LEI and identity anchors appear only when public registers publish them and citations support the statement.
Desk audience and out-of-scope topics
The audience is bank EF, PF, and CRE desks and adjacent risk and compliance readers. Pages assume familiarity with export credit agency cover, project finance structures, and country risk review. Consumer personal-finance framing is out of scope for these surfaces.
Pages may link export credit agency, project finance, and country risk definitions. Out of scope for public editorial content:
- Tutorials on mining company registers or filings for origination advantage
- Instructions for monitoring counterparties via undisclosed scraping workflows
- Named customer banks or person-level profiles
- Provider, model-vendor, or infrastructure inventories
- Fake review stars, invented traffic claims, or unsourced league tables
YMYL-adjacent topics stay definitional and cited. They link methodology pages for product evidence rules and keep human review in view.
Corrections, updates, and version posture
Factual errors are corrected under the corrections policy. Source pages that change after publication may require an update with a visible date change. Debates about evolving institutional methods are handled by publishing a revised explainer or linked research note, not by silent rewrite.
See the full corrections policy. Internal linking prefers glossary definitions, methodology standards, and institutional primers so a desk can reconstruct the trail. Related trust pages describe how we cite sources, about our content, and the business model.