Banking and financial services
Core banking, regulatory and risk programmes, digital channels and central banking. Standard Bank, Nedbank, Absa, FNB, Investec and the South African Reserve Bank.
Experience / Since 2001
Where our consultants have delivered value
Banking, insurance, legal, data and product programmes, delivered remotely and onsite across Africa, Europe, the Gulf and the USA.
Proof / Delivered by our consultants since 2001
110+
projects delivered
35+
clients across four industries
9
banks, insurers and the central bank
85
engineers in the largest team led
01 / Industries
Four industries, in this order
Insurance and legal
Agile at scale in insurance and global finance systems for a law firm. Hollard, Santam, Bryte Insurance and Dentons.
Data, MDM and product data
Master and product data on Informatica Product 360, from ERP to eCommerce. Komatsu, Curaleaf and Trulieve.
Tech start-ups and product
Discovery, product ownership and delivery for start-ups in San Francisco, Dubai and beyond, including Scoutible and Preimo.
02 / Case studies
Recent engagements
South African Reserve Bank
120
people in agile teams
Standing up agile delivery for financial surveillance
A landmark programme to overhaul financial surveillance across the South African banking sector, with a new function to stand up.
Asad PatelMar 2023 – Dec 2024Absa
9
markets the platform is built for
Digital banking across African markets
Replace legacy web, mobile and USSD channels with one digital banking platform for retail and business clients across Absa's African markets.
Asad PatelJun 2025 – Oct 2026Absa
2
teams, estates and trusts
Estates and trust modernisation
Two teams: estates applications used by every Absa branch, and trust services moving off the mainframe onto a new fiduciary platform.
Nasar PatelJun – Oct 2026Dentons
6
regions, one finance system
Global finance implementation, six regions
A finance system implementation for a global law firm across six regions: UKIME, the USA, Canada, Latin America, Singapore and Europe.
Asad PatelMar 2023 – May 2025Komatsu, Trulieve, Curaleaf
1.3M+
master-data records
Master data at scale on Informatica Product 360
Product and material master-data programmes on Informatica Product 360, fed from ERP (including SAP) and feeding eCommerce and downstream systems.
Nasar Patel and Asad Patel2023 – Apr 2026Hollard Insurance
150+
people in one agile model
Agile at scale for 150+ people
Hollard's first implementation of agile at scale using SAFe in its IT department.
Asad Patel and Nasar PatelAug 2023 – Nov 202503 / Logo wall
Organisations our consultants have worked with
Directly, or through consultancies such as Accenture, EOH and Paradigm Technology.
04 / Inside the work
From the workshop wall
05 / Earlier
Earlier career highlights
- Standard BankThe bank's first agile proof of concept (Shariah investments, 20 engineers), via EOH.Asad Patel
- Standard BankCore banking transformation: led about 85 engineers in a 200-person programme, via Accenture.Asad Patel
- NedbankDiscovery lead across about 20 regulatory, risk, legal and cyber initiatives, via EOH.Asad Patel
- Scoutible, San FranciscoPM, Scrum Master and Product Owner for an AI-based hiring platform.Asad Patel
- Tartan St. Cloud Cold Storage, MinnesotaTechnical design, EDI integration and project management.Asad Patel
- Preimo, DubaiProduct, testing and pricing-model delivery for a luxury mobility app.Asad Patel