Advisory and technology for banks · Tashkent
Advice and technology for banks, from people who have run them.
AvanFin Partners helps banks and financial institutions in Uzbekistan and Central Asia manage risk, run the balance sheet, raise funding and modernise their technology. Our team has held senior risk, finance, technology and board roles in banks, at the Ministry of Finance and on international programmes, and we stay through implementation.
Our partners' combined record
50+ years
Of combined experience in banking, finance and advisory across our three partners
$700M+
Raised by Uzbek banks from Eurobond investors and international financial institutions, in deals our partners led
$36B
Sovereign foreign-currency debt covered by our partners' risk and hedging advice to the Ministry of Finance of Uzbekistan
15
Countries where our partners have worked, across Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the United States
Four domains, one standard
Each domain is led by people who have done the work at senior level: in a bank, at a ministry, on an international programme or at a leading advisory firm. We design for Uzbek regulation and Central Bank of Uzbekistan (CBU) requirements first, then add international practice where it pays for itself.
Risk & Compliance
Risk frameworks, credit risk and IFRS 9, and financial crime controls that regulators, auditors and correspondent banks accept.
- Risk management
- Credit risk & IFRS 9
- Financial crime compliance
For the CRO and Head of Compliance
Finance & Capital
The balance sheet, the budget and the IFRS accounts, and the international funding that depends on them.
- Treasury & ALM
- Finance & performance
- IFRS reporting
- Capital markets & funding
For the CFO and Treasurer
Technology & Data
From IT strategy and digital banking to data platforms, regulatory reporting and AI that run in production.
- IT strategy & architecture
- Digital banking
- Data & regulatory reporting
- AI & analytics
For the CIO, CTO and CDO
Strategy & Transformation
Strategy and governance, the programmes that deliver them, and restructuring when the balance sheet needs repair.
- Strategy & governance
- Transformation delivery
- Restructuring & recovery
For the Chair, Supervisory Board and CEO
Senior people from every side of the table
For each engagement we put together a team from a bench of senior practitioners. Between us, we have held roles including:
- First Deputy CEO and Deputy Chairman of Uzbek banks
- Chief Risk Officer and head of retail credit risk
- Chief Information, Chief Technology and Chief Digital Officer
- Head of IFRS reporting
- Vice President, financial crime compliance
- Chief executive of a national credit bureau
- Head of global financial markets at the Ministry of Finance of Uzbekistan
- Supervisory board and committee member
- Senior roles at Big Four and global restructuring firms
- Data engineer, statistician and fintech founder
Credentials on the team include CFA, FCCA, CAMS, CIA and Chartered Accountant, and a doctorate in economics. We have worked in Uzbekistan and across Central Asia, Europe, the Gulf, Asia and the United States.
We have sat in your chair
Operators, not observers.
We have run risk, finance, technology and compliance functions inside banks, and we know what breaks when a framework meets a real balance sheet.
International standards, local reality.
Experience at global banks, Big Four firms and on international programmes, applied to CBU rules, Uzbek accounting and the systems banks here actually run.
Senior people do the work.
The person you meet is the person who does the analysis and writes the recommendations. No junior team behind a partner.
From advice to working systems.
We can carry a recommendation through to a working policy, model, report, data platform or AI tool, and hand it over with documentation and training.
How an engagement runs
Diagnose
Two to four weeks. We review your current set-up against CBU requirements and good practice, and hand you a written point of view with priorities.
Design
Policies, methodologies, models, processes and system architecture, built with your team rather than for it.
Implement
We work alongside your people through go-live. Where systems are needed, we can build them with our delivery team, or help you choose a vendor on merit.
Hand over
Documentation, training and a defined point where your team runs it without us.
What is on your agenda for the next 18 months?
A new CBU requirement, an IFRS 9 review, a correspondent bank asking about your sanctions controls, a Eurobond or a credit line from an international lender, a core banking replacement, a data warehouse that never delivered. We start with a 60-minute conversation and a short written view on where to begin. No obligation.
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