"I am a coach and consultant with extensive experience in financial services, including EXCO and Board. I have worked with startups, SME's, and some of the biggest businesses in the world."

Athol Abrahams

Athol Abrahams, Senior Risk and Compliance
MBA PgDip B.Com FInstLM FACCPH MAC CNHC BaThH

Athol Abrahams

Senior Risk and Compliance professional

I am a skilled Senior Risk and Compliance professional and accredited Transformation Coach, with over 25 years experience in Financial Services. Key strengths include:

  • Risk management frameworks – design from scratch, build, implement, refine
  • Credit risk and portfolio management for commercial and consumer credit businesses
  • Specialist in Bank builds, start-ups and fintech high growth businesses
  • Advisory and audit for lenders, funders and investors
  • Strategic support for financial services lenders and funders
  • Compliance & AML frameworks – design from scratch and implement, FCA approved person
  • Compliance advisory, including FCA applications, assurance, projects, or interim
  • Coaching individuals and teams
  • Successfully deliver FCA applications, variations of permission and provide hands on support in dealing with FCA interventions, including audits, remediations and VREQ’s
  • Providing advisory, support and consultancy to corporate clients in:
    • Enterprise Risk
    • Credit Risk and Compliance
    •  Specialisms in SME lending, banking, acquisitions, consumer credit, asset finance, mortgages, bridging, funding facilities, retail deposits, payment services, peer to peer platforms and alternative investment funds 
    • FCA SMF16/17 responsibilities by arrangement
  • Providing audits for wholesale funders on lenders portfolios, including due diligence for portfolio acquisitions
  • Writing or remediating policies for lenders at the request of funders to ensure rigour in lending activities
  • Providing training, executive coaching and management coaching

Professional Qualifications & Associations

  • Triple Accredited Master of Business Administration (MBA); with Merit 
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Pg.DiP.BusAdmin)
  • Bachelors’ Degree in Commerce (B.Com)
  • Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management (FInstLM)
  • Fellow of the Association of Accredited Coaches (FACCPH)
  • Accredited Transformation Coach ( BaThH & CNHC )
  • Former Chair of the Finance and Leasing Association Risk and Fraud Committee

Previous Employers include

ING Bank

Singer and Friedlander Bank

Atradius

Lendinvest Group

Amicus Capital Limited

GH Bank