Experienced financial market professionals on your payroll can be costly. We aim to improve clients’ profitability by providing them with access to our services, as needed, to help grow their business.

Introduce –We believe is getting to know our clients and their needs, before we get down to business. Really understanding the heart and mandate of a business will help us to be more solution-specific.

Analyse – With an auditor’s approach, we ask the right questions, accumulate all applicable data and do an in-depth analysis of the numbers.

Innovate – Staying ahead of the pack is critical in our game, therefore we use ‘the world’s most powerful information portal and analytics tool’; this gives us the processing power to create innovative structures and model their historical and future performance.

Implement – Global dealing experience and live market data feeds allow us to effectively execute and manage any structure or position.

Educate – We provide training courses, presentations and seminars to all our clients, ensuring that everyone involved understand the process. This educational approach we apply to all our assignments, aiming at empowering our clients.

Niel gained international exposure with Credit Suisse, initially in London and later New York and Singapore. He returned to South Africa in 2009 and joined ABSA Capital in Structured FX Sales, where he worked until March 2012.

In his role as Internal Auditor he was involved in analysing various functions across the Investment Banking and Asset Management divisions, including:

• Credit Derivatives Sales and Trading;
• Re-pricing of Structured Fixed Income products (CDO’s & CDS’s);
• OTC Derivatives Operations;
• Leveraged Finance;
• Fund Linked Products Middle Office;
• Cash Securities Operations;
• Model Development & Validation;
• Regulatory Reporting.

Moving across to a Front Office dealing role exposed him to a broad variety of clients ranging from Hedge Funds and Investment Managers looking for analysis and insight into macroeconomic factors and information flow, to Corporations seeking to hedge their currency exposure.

During the years specialising in Foreign Exchange he has developed an in-depth knowledge of identifying and managing market risks. This, combined with his insight into the operational aspects of financial institutions, puts him in a unique position to evaluate the appropriateness of various hedging instruments and internal protocols that are available to mitigate the risks facing local corporations.

Niel is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA) and CFA® Charterholder. He is also a registered Dealer in the Equity and Currency Derivatives Markets on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.