We can provide end-to-end project implementation, through to specialist project resources and subject matter experts to support and deliver your data and EIM projects.

Today’s environment requires providers of credit to significantly enhance their ability to understand the risks associated with their portfolio. Management is increasingly being asked by stakeholders, regulators and accounting bodies to provide more sophisticated reporting on their exposure to credit risk. These requirements are not always possible with the firms existing infrastructure and technology.

Anchor Point has developed a proprietary model which will utilize our client’s existing counter-party data and rate it to industry-wide acknowledged benchmarks to deliver risk rating analysis for a portfolio of financial instruments and is capable of being generated across currencies and jurisdictions under multiple scenarios.

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Facilitating collaboration between your risk, finance and data teams.

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Enabling institutions to originate, measure and manage their clients’ entire risk profile in one environment.

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Finance team

Ensuring that your financial statements are compliant
with the latest IFRS accounting rules.

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Assisting you with acquiring, governing, managing and
utilizing the valuable resources of data and information.

We give you the same risk analysis of your credit exposure that large institutions have in-house without the burden of high development, and implementations costs.
Anchor Point’s suite of credit risk services are always in line with the constantly evolving accounting and regulatory requirements.

Meet our team

Our team

Anchor Point Risk has a diverse skill set within our management team, consisting of technology capabilities, in depth knowledge of the African banking landscape and proven skill in growing consulting businesses.

We have been at the coal face of large installations for the past 20 years and been building our model specifically to address changes in the credit risk analysis and financial reporting for the past 2 years.

Christopher Stride

Qualification
CA(SA), CPA

Christopher has spent over 20 years managing consulting organisations in the financial services sector.  Christopher grew a boutique consulting company in the Caribbean to over 20 staff specializing in the liquidation and management of large scale global liquidations.

Christopher was a recognised Liquidation practitioner in the Caribbean and recognised in the United States Bankruptcy courts.  During the course of his appointments Christopher managed a team of specialist in complex cross border bankruptcy matters and on numerous forensic and litigation support matters.

Henry Edwards

CA(SA)

Henry has been involved in the banking and financial services sector for the past 20 years.  

He has developed risk models as a consultant and as an in-house team leader.  

Two of the largest South African banking institutions utilise modelling tools and credit risk solutions developed by Henry to ensure consistent credit risk solutions, risk assessment and measurement.

Henry has stepped back from the corporate environment and has spent the last few years developing a proprietary risk model to assist small and medium sized banking institutions, pension funds, financial technology companies and corporates globally.

Henry Edwards

Director | Head of Credit
Chartered Accountant South Africa

Henry has twenty years’ experience in the banking sector and has extensive experience in credit risk and capital management.

He has head up various teams at two large South African banks, including Head of Basel Reporting, Wholesale Basel and Portfolio Risk Management Rest of Africa.

His experience includes development of corporate rating model (corporate , financial institutions and sovereigns), Basel II Credit Risk AIRB implementation, implementation of capital measurement and reporting (regulatory and internal), corporate credit LGD (Loss Given Default) model development,  development, performance and coordination of stress testing frameworks, IFRS 9 ECL modelling for corporate exposures and audit reviews, developing corporate pricing and valuation models, involvement in a bank’s Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment (ICAAP), developing workout and recovery calculators, developing integrated credit platforms, development of forward-looking PD term structures and developing specialised finance rating models (i.e. project finance, object finance etc.).

Greg Goeller

Director | Head of Global
Chartered Accountant (SA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Greg Goeller is CEO of Anchor Point Risk Solutions, global provider of credit risk solutions, and partnered with BDO.

Prior to this he spent nine years at Standard Bank in various executive positions, including Chief Risk Officer for Standard Bank Corporate & Investment Bank Africa, and in CIB Coverage and Wealth divisions.

He acted in the capacity of Special Advisor to the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa; Managing Partner of the KPMG Investment Advisory, Quantitative and Economic Modeling division for 6 years; Head of Banking and Financial Institution equity research at Cazenove and Societe Generale between 1997 and 2002, prior to which he completed his chartered accounting articles with KPMG.

Experience includes: CRO for Large bank in South Africa, which included; Africa Exco member responsible for Credit, Market, Operational Risks, as well as Compliance and Legal, responsible for 16 countries, and head office functions, Africa ALCO, Member of the Global Risk Exco, representing Africa, Managing partner large 4 accounting firm which included; Quantitative Financial Risk Management - developed and validated risk rating inputs for SA banks and development banks. He also was involved in a number of statistical model validation roles as well as Basel II implementation projects within South African, Middle East and other African banks.

Eric Jenkins

Director | Data and Information
Management
Bachelor of  Commerce (Honours) in Information Systems

Eric Jenkins is Director of Data and Information Management at Anchor Point Risk Solutions, global provider of credit risk solutions, and partnered with BDO.

He has 30 years’ experience in Data and Information Management of which 11 years at an executive level within financial industry, both in consulting and business positions, local and abroad. Specialist, subject matter expert and thought leader in Information Management and Data Management as critical enterprise assets to enabling information driven organisations.

His experience includes program management, credit market and regulatory compliance, providing trusted thought leadership, assurance, advice, guidance and support to business executives on the effective management of critical data and information assets, enabling their growth targets and strategies, creating market differentiation and ensuring regulatory compliance.

His business experience includes BCBS239 Programme Manager for FSR Group, Chief Data Officer for DirectAxis, Senior Data Director for TransUnion Credit Bureau and information specialist in the Actuarial Finance division at Old Mutual. His advisory experience includes, PwC, Ernst & Young and Accenture, specialising in the delivery of large data transformation projects and BI solutions. He served on the first DAMA board performing an integral role in inaugurating the DAMA South African chapter, a large global association dedicated to the education of best practice in Data and Information Management.

He also assisted the establishment of the first CDOA forum in South Africa for data management and analytics leaders.

Vince Pienaar

Associate Director | Data and Information Management
Bachelor of  Commerce (General), DipBA - Business Analysis, Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals certification

Vince is a career IT professional who leads by example and applies a granular and comprehensive understanding of business and data processes. He has more than 13 years’ experience in information technology and enterprise information management within the financial industry, of which the last 9 years have been in a management role. 

As an experienced Senior Business Analyst, Scrum Master and Enterprise Information Management Specialist, Vince supports internal and external clients in the planning, designing, development and implementation of a wide range of IT and data solutions through the use of various project methodologies and frameworks. Where he assumes the role of a Programme and Project Consultant, he manages and delivers FinTech programmes and data transformation projects in line with best-practice standards, frameworks and methodologies across multiple industries.

Devana Naidoo

Senior Manager | Enterprise Information Management
Bachelor of Commerce (Investment Finance, Corporate Finance and Business Science Masters of Business Administration

Thought leader and subject matter expert with 22 years’ experience in financial services within banking and insurance sectors having worked across functions including Risk, Regulatory and Compliance, Financial Systems Implementations. Devana is a Senior Manager - Information Management at Anchor Point Risk Services and is responsible for maturing the digital transformation journey of organisations.

David Symons

Head of Credit
BCom (Hons) Financial Management, CFA, Diploma in Advanced Banking

David has over 20 year of credit analysis and credit risk management experience in the banking and financial services sectors including large corporations, commercial lending, small and medium enterprises, financial institutions and emerging and developing countries.

His credit experience includes sovereign, economic sector and entity specific credit analysis and management, credit research, portfolio management, transaction structuring, analysing collateral backed and complex local, cross-border and off-shore structured transactions. Credit exposure and portfolio risk management experience includes measuring and managing credit exposures arising from fixed income, currency, commodity and derivative transactions.

He has held various senior positions including Head of Sovereign and Financial Institution Credit Risk at Rand Merchant Bank, Vice President: Credit at Bank of America and Head of Business Finance Credit at Sasfin and has been a member of various Credit Committees including the Structured Trade Finance, Financial Institutions and Medium Corporate Credit Committee at Rand Merchant Bank and the Management Credit Committee at Sasfin.He has developed, implemented and reviewed Credit Policies and Procedures taking account of the latest international accounting and risk management regulatory requirements including Basel II and IFRS 9.

Our team

Anchor Point Risk has a diverse skill set within our management team, consisting of technology capabilities, in depth knowledge of the African banking landscape and proven skill in growing consulting businesses.

We have been at the coal face of large installations for the past 20 years and been building our model specifically to address changes in the credit risk analysis and financial reporting for the past 2 years.

Imbani

Imbani Holdings (Pty) Ltd (“Imbani”) is a 51% shareholder in APRS and was founded by Briss Mathabathe over forty years ago. It is a diversified holding company with subsidiaries operating in various sectors incl.: financial services; telecommunications; transport and logistics; security services; turnkey infrastructure development; fuel commodities distribution; and hotels and tourism. Imbani has significant experience and longstanding relationships with commercial banks; development finance institutions; export credit bodies; contractors and financiers. Imbani currently has major projects and partnerships throughout Africa and Europe
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