Risk Suite

Risk Operations

Operational tools that turn policy into practice.

Explore our models

Model

SME PD & LGD Model (South Africa & Emerging Markets)

Designed to unlock access for small and medium enterprises, including thin-file entities with limited history.

  • Produces Probability of Default (PD) and Loss Given Default (LGD) for SME exposures.
  • Calibrated to South African and wider emerging-market datasets.
  • Supports affordability checks and portfolio-level SME impairment forecasting.
  • Enables lenders and DFIs to extend credit where traditional scoring fails.
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Large Corporate PD & LGD Model (RiskCalc-aligned)

Built for multinationals and diversified corporates using financial statement ratios and global benchmarks.

  • Aligned to RiskCalc-style methodology and global benchmarks.
  • Produces PD & LGD suitable for IFRS 9 ECL and Basel capital calculations.
  • Handles complex group structures and multi-year comparative analysis.
  • Provides supportable ratings for internal approval and external investors.
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Global Bank PD/LGD Model

Tailored for regulated banks and deposit-taking institutions, covering PD, LGD, and Exposure at Default (EAD).

  • Covers PD, LGD, and Exposure at Default (EAD).
  • Aligned to external credit rating agency conventions, feeding directly into capital adequacy and RWA reporting.
  • Can be calibrated to local supervisory requirements while retaining global comparability.
  • Designed for governance-ready, explainable outputs.
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Global NBFI PD Model

For non-bank financial institutions (e.g., micro-lenders and specialty finance companies) producing PDs tailored to regulated but non-bank lenders.

  • Produces PDs tailored to regulated but non-bank lenders.
  • Benchmarked to global NBFI data and integrated with affordability rules.
  • Often paired with finance company / fintech workflows for rapid origination and approvals.
  • Governance-ready calibration and monitoring.
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Project Finance LGD Model

Purpose-built for infrastructure and renewable energy projects with long horizons, modelling LGD through cashflow waterfalls and stress overlays.

  • Models LGD through cashflow waterfalls, collateral stresses, and political overlays.
  • Sector-specific calibration curves for energy, transport, housing, and mining.
  • Aligns with DFI and blended-finance investor requirements.
  • Produces recovery distributions, not just default probabilities.
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Commercial Real Estate (CRE) PD & LGD Model

Developed for property portfolios and real estate exposures, assessing tenant quality, lease terms, collateral, and sector cycles.

  • Assesses tenant credit quality, lease terms (WALE), collateral, and sector cycles.
  • Produces PD and LGD for individual CRE exposures or whole portfolios.
  • Supports IFRS 13 fair value, impairment testing, and Basel CRE slotting approaches.
  • Built for portfolio monitoring and valuation governance.
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Hazard-Rate Consumer PD Model (IFRS 9)

A top-down, actuarial model for consumer/retail portfolios supporting IFRS 9 ECL compliance for large retail books.

  • Uses migration and development factor approaches to forecast PDs.
  • Supports IFRS 9 Expected Credit Loss (ECL) compliance for large retail books.
  • Designed for continuous monitoring and trend detection (moving-window hazard rate).
  • Built for governance-ready backtesting and sensitivity analysis.

Explore our credit risk suite

Origination

Origination tools that streamline operations, strengthen compliance, and prepare your data for smarter credit decisions.

Cyte’s origination modules automate the ingestion, standardisation, and validation of customer and compliance information and financial and bank-statement data - removing manual work, reducing errors, and accelerating time-to-assessment. Risk teams receive model-ready inputs for PD/LGD and affordability analysis, managers gain consistent datasets for portfolio reviews, and compliance teams benefit from a transparent, auditable data lineage. Origination becomes faster, cleaner, and fully aligned with downstream credit operations.

Assessment

Assessment tools that standardise decisions, enforce policy, and ensure every credit evaluation is accurate, consistent, and regulator-ready.

Cyte’s assessment modules combine financial modelling, affordability checks, and KYC/AML verification into a single, structured evaluation process. Risk teams receive accurate PD/LGD outputs calibrated for SMEs and corporates; analysts benefit from automated scoring and risk indicators; and compliance teams gain full traceability of overrides, decisions, and supporting data. With Assessment, every credit decision becomes consistent, defensible, and aligned with your organisation’s risk appetite - strengthening portfolio quality and ensuring downstream pricing, monitoring, and reporting are based on robust, validated inputs.

Pricing

Pricing tools that ensure fair value, strengthen capital efficiency, and align every facility with your risk appetite.

Cyte’s pricing modules calculate facility terms, margins, and return metrics using transparent, risk-adjusted methodologies. Risk teams gain objective pricing grounded in PD/LGD outputs and RAROC logic; managers can evaluate profitability and capital efficiency across clients, sectors, and products; and compliance officers benefit from auditable IFRS 13 valuation processes. With Pricing, lenders can set fair, defensible, and market-aligned terms - ensuring every facility supports portfolio resilience and sustainable returns.

Monitoring

Monitoring tools that track portfolio performance, predict risk shifts, and ensure proactive, compliant credit management across the lifecycle.

Cyte’s monitoring modules analyse PD/LGD migration, impairments, and behavioural indicators to give risk and operations teams continuous visibility into portfolio health. Managers gain early-warning signals and scenario-driven foresight, compliance officers receive IFRS-aligned audit trails and disclosures, and decision-makers can proactively adjust strategies before risks materialise. With Monitoring, credit teams maintain resilient portfolios grounded in real-time analytics and regulator-ready reporting.

Reporting & Compliance

Reporting and compliance tools that automate disclosure, strengthen governance, and ensure full regulatory alignment across IFRS and Basel frameworks.

Cyte’s reporting and compliance modules unify valuation, impairment, lease, and entity-level metrics into a consistent, audit-ready framework. Operations teams benefit from automated calculation engines that remove manual effort and reduce reporting risk; managers gain consolidated, portfolio-level insights for IFRS and Basel submissions; and compliance officers receive transparent, traceable outputs that meet regulatory disclosure standards. With Reporting & Compliance, organisations maintain accuracy, defensibility, and governance at scale - across every asset, exposure, and reporting cycle.

Integration

Integration tools that connect systems, automate data flows, and ensure seamless credit operations across your technology environment.

Cyte’s integration capabilities allow organisations to connect internal systems, external data providers, and downstream reporting tools through secure pipelines and automated workflows. Digital Pipelines manage structured data ingestion and transformation, while BootSure Pipelines orchestrate background processes and integrations across the Suite. Together, these tools ensure that credit data flows smoothly between systems, eliminating manual transfers and maintaining a consistent, auditable operational environment.

Seamless integration

Seamless integration

  • Powered by BootSure – automation engine orchestrating data ingestion and model execution across Cyte modules.
  • API-first architecture ensures low-friction deployment.
  • Enterprise connectors link to banking, insurance, finance systems.
  • Digital pipelines transform unstructured data into model-ready inputs.
  • White-labelling ensures each client instance carries their own brand.
Integrated AI

AI that evolves with your business.

  • Intelligent Capture: automates statement and lease extraction with high accuracy.
  • Smart Decisioning: affordability, pricing, and approvals guided by AI.
  • Predictive Insights: portfolio foresight on impairments and PD/LGD shifts.
  • Always Learning: models adapt as your data grows.
Enterprise-grade security

Enterprise-Grade Security

  • End-to-end encryption standards.
  • Compliance with POPIA (South Africa), GDPR (EU), and global protocols.
  • Continuous monitoring, logging, resilience testing.
Consultation

Master compliance, elevate portfolio performance, and transform credit operations – all in one platform.

  • Regulator-ready compliance
  • Portfolio intelligence
  • Operational excellence