Built for the realities of emerging markets.

Cyte was established in response to a structural shift in financial services. Institutions are no longer asked simply to extend credit - they are expected to explain it, quantify it, defend it and report on it with precision.

Stakeholders, regulators and accounting bodies increasingly require transparent insight into portfolio risk, model assumptions and capital resilience. These expectations often exceed the capabilities of legacy systems and fragmented internal processes.

Cyte exists to close that gap.

Built in South Africa, Cyte supports credit providers from SMEs through to large corporates and banks - enabling clearer, more defensible credit decisions in growth markets.

Decisions that are growth-enabling
and regulator-ready.

Structured across the credit lifecycle.

The objective is not functional separation, but structural alignment - where operations, oversight and compliance operate as a single integrated system.

Risk Operations

Supporting structured origination, assessment, pricing, monitoring and collections - ensuring that credit decisions are measurable and defensible at the point of execution.

Management

Providing portfolio-level oversight, analytics, stress testing and structured reporting - enabling institutions to understand performance, exposure and capital implications in real time.

Compliance

Ensuring outputs remain aligned with evolving IFRS standards, Basel frameworks and regulatory disclosure requirements - with audit-ready transparency embedded by design.

Institutional depth without institutional overhead.

Large financial institutions often maintain internal modelling and analytical capacity at significant cost. Cyte provides equivalent structural depth without the burden of internal development cycles, prolonged implementation programmes or fragmented technology environments.

Our methodologies are continuously maintained in line with evolving regulatory, accounting and supervisory standards. Institutional requirements are not retrofitted - they are foundational.

Designed for regulated environments

  • Defensible, benchmark-aligned methodologies
  • Scenario and stress-based views
  • Audit-ready transparency
  • Continuously maintained standards alignment

Leadership & Strategic Partnership.

Henry Edwards

Henry Edwards

Chief Executive Officer

Henry has over two decades of experience in banking and financial services, specialising in credit risk modelling and portfolio analytics. He has developed proprietary methodologies adopted by major institutions and leads Cyte’s strategic and technical direction.

Paulinah Teffu

Paulinah Teffu

Commercial & Technology Officer

Paulinah oversees Cyte’s commercial strategy and leads the technology implementation function across the platform. She ensures that client engagement, institutional requirements and technical execution remain aligned - bridging strategy, delivery and long-term platform development.

Greg Goeller

Greg Goeller

APRS Consultant Partner

Through Cyte’s collaboration with Anchor Point Risk Solutions, Greg supports institutional clients in translating regulatory, accounting and portfolio requirements into structured operational frameworks.