SVCG is a specialist team with deep, technical specialist skills and proven practical experience in the areas of:

• Financial instrument fair valuations (including derivatives and the XVAs)
• Credit modelling (IFRS 9 ECL and unlisted credit fair valuation)
• Market and credit risk management (including IBOR transition advisory)
• Hedge accounting (IAS 39 and IFRS 9)
• Treasury function and process advisory services.

SVCG operates within BDO South Africa’s Financial Services business unit to provide consulting, audit support, assurance and internal audit co-sourcing services in these specialist areas.

SVCG is a team of over 30 people, including partners, managers and analysts. The team consists of quantitative analysts, Chartered Accountants, CFA Charter holders, actuaries and data scientists.

Our experience in local and international financial markets enables us to provide the highest quality of deep technical support to our clients, but with an understanding of the practical valuations, credit and risk management principles and challenges.

SVCG’s service offering

SVCG is unique in its service offering as we combine quantitative valuations and credit modelling skillsets, with years of financial services accounting and auditing experience, enhanced with data science and data governance expertise for the extraction and analysis of all valuations and credit data.

This ensures an enhanced and integrated specialist service delivery and offering to our clients, as well as other firms in the BDO global network.

SVCG is set up to offer outsourced fair valuations, credit modelling and financial risk management services to any BDO firm or corporate / institutional client, either as an audit or advisory specialist.

Our fair valuations services are digitally enabled by means of our BVAL fair valuations tool. BVAL enables our SVCG team to perform full portfolio fair valuations of our clients’ vanilla financial instruments, including unlisted debt, money market and derivative instruments.

SVCG’s credit modelling team showcases our digital transformation by means of our BDO Credit Risk Suite (CRS), enabling our team to provide an internally consistent risk-rating framework to produce independent probabilities of default (PDs) for risk management, capital management, stress testing and IFRS 9 expected credit loss (ECL) calculation purposes.

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