Described is a method and system for automating financial regulatory compliance. The described subject generates a jurisdictional definition file based on a plurality of financial regulatory requirement for a plurality of countries. Responsive to receiving a transaction request, the method and system further generate a configurable transaction array for the transaction request that is a subset of the jurisdictional definition file based on a sender information and a receiver information. The jurisdiction logic system and method described above further maps the sender information and the receiver information into the configurable transaction array. Lastly, the jurisdiction logic system determines whether the transaction request will succeed or fail by using a decision tree that is populated by the configurable transaction array.