The Ministry of Trade and Industry brought in Genesis to conduct an independent and substantive evidence-based assessment of the financial and business models of the competing applicants.

The South African National Payments System is the backbone of the South African economy. Genesis was asked by the Association of System Operators (ASO) to address a number of key competition issues in terms of the reconsideration of conditions imposed by the Competition Commission in two mergers in the South African National Payment System. 

Genesis was commissioned by a large African bank to perform a Global Investment Portfolio Standards (GIPS) assessment and implementation for the bank’s private clients. Phase 1 focused on providing guidance on GIPS requirements and performing a gap analysis. Phase 2 focused on the Implementation of solutions to become GIPS compliant.

Genesis developed an indicative cost of regulation model for the South African banking sector to demonstrate how the bank regulations created a regulatory cost across specific products for the Banking Association South Africa (BASA).

Genesis was commissioned by a tier-2 South African bank to review its current risk management processes and perform a gap analysis against best practices. The review covered ALM/Market risk, liquidity and credit risk.

The Financial Services Board (FSB) appointed Genesis Analytics, working in conjunction with Bourse Consult, to validate its assessment of the Safex Clearing Company (Pty) Ltd (SAFCOM, now JSE Clear). This was conducted in terms of the CPSS-IOSCO Principles for Financial Markets Infrastructures (PFMIs).

Genesis was commissioned by DFID and the Ugandan financial services inclusion programme to conduct a review of the progress made within the microfinance industry in Uganda, consider the emerging trends in the sector as well as to provide a look into the future and recommend new strategies for increasing the level of financial inclusion. 

Genesis was commissioned by a large cash-in-transit company to conduct an end-to-end analysis of the ATM industry and the factors shaping it, with the view to quantify the consolidation opportunity and industry cost savings. 

For this project we conducted extensive research in the Gert Sibande District in Mpumalanga, which showed that many young women engaged in commercial sex work and transactional sex. This is as a result of very high unemployment levels among women in the area. It is also probably the reason why HIV infection levels in this area are among the highest in the country.