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Pushing New Boundaries...

Welcome to

the ground-breaking first edition of

Ké Concepts

- The key to your Credit Management and Lending Solutions -

Quarterly Newsletter


With the intent to enlighten, entertain and inform, Ké Concepts heartily welcomes you - our valued readers - to our quarterly newsletter.

And in keeping to the theme of all things ‘new’ for this launch edition - Ké Concepts have a brand new address. Having moved premises this past June, we can now be found at the Coachman’s Crossing Office Park in Bryanston, Sandton. (Please remember to visit our website for updated contact details) and speaking about our website… that’s new too!

Freshly branded (yes, also new), our updated site is a collection of innovative Ké Concepts knowledge and expertise coupled with pertinent industry info all seamlessly combined with effortless navigation and heightened ease of use.

What more could one ask for, I hear you say? Why, a spanking new version of CreditEase of course!

And in this, our first newsletter, we thought it fitting to bring all our readers ‘up to speed’ with the functionality and underlying technology inherent in the new version of our premier lending suite of software products - CreditEase V5.

In CreditEase V5, Ké Concepts has added a number of features that are specifically related to certain industries and we will proceed to elaborate on these tailored enhancements in the next few issues of our newsletter. For now though, the concentration will center around those developments in CreditEase V5 that apply across all sectors, so be sure to visit the Hints & Tips section for these details.

Yours in Loan Management Solutions

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Case Study

IZWE South AfricA

CreditEase Micro Finance partners with IZWE Loans to support and grow micro- finance in Africa.

As a registered micro-financier, IZWE plays an important role within the financing community. It provides much needed credit through electronic banking channels to salaried employees with stable monthly incomes, who would typically fit the South African Lifestyle Sector Measurements (LSM) of 5 to 10. These borrowers generally have monthly household incomes of less than ZAR 7 500 but can still significantly improve quality of life through access to non-mortgage home improvement and developmental loans.

IZWE opened its first branch in Pretoria in 2004,...

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Our African Footprint

KÉ CONCEPTS assists in unlocking potential in Africa

Africa is offering excellent opportunities for investment. Not just for overseas investors, but for local South African-based companies who are ideally positioned to leverage proximity and experience in the African landscape.

This expansion comes with a certain degree of risk. Companies may be reluctant to channel large amounts of capital to build infrastructures in untested markets.

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CreditEase Hints & Tips

CreditEase V5

As mentioned, CreditEase V5 is packed with industry specific features (ranging from simple micro-loan agreements to complex structure corporate deals) which will be expanded on and analyzed in upcoming newsletter editions. For now, the enhancements that effectively span all sectors of the financial industry will be examined and explored.

So, CreditEase V5, what's new?

The single biggest enhancement is the availability of an integrated, state-of-the-art, workflow engine. This, coupled with activity queues accessed through user inboxes, provides organizations with the ability to automate and streamline lending business processes. A comprehensive suite of the more common business processes have been built directly into the software providing medium sized organizations with an ‘out of the box’ offering. Large scaled business can use these ‘standard processes’ as a departing point from which they can modify the flow to address their exact business requirements.

Document management has been integrated across the entire software suite enabling the user to both attach and review required documents at the appropriate step of the business process. Support has also been extended to a range of the more common document formats. And new features include document versioning, user defined validity periods, archiving and batch based retrieval functionality.

Version 5 sees the introduction of a number of new modules. The front office suite caters for the origination and approval of deals while the debts management set focuses on the rehabilitation of delinquent debtors. With the advent of these modules, the CreditEase application now provides cradle-to-grave functionality across the entire lending life cycle.

The application has also undergone a technology refresh with the web and smart ‘rich’ client presentation layer being upgraded to .net4 which has doubled the overall performance. Token based security has now been integrated into the suite. The database and workflow engine has been upgraded to the latest offering from Microsoft, namely SQL2008R2 and WWF4. And management information now uses the latest Power Pivot to deliver slice and dice capabilities. The scalability and overall responsiveness is therefore dramatically improved when Power Pivot is coupled with the Microsoft Excel 2010 client.

Staff Profile

Featuring: Miles Hern, Ké Concepts Managing Director

Taking full advantage of our exciting new venture of the Ké Concepts quarterly newsletter, we thought it an inspired idea to serve up some light-hearted stats about key company members.

And here to start us off with a bang is Ké Concepts’ Managing Director, Miles Hern… in a nutshell

Where did you grow up?

I grew up in the southern suburbs of Johannesburg and went to school at Saint Martins. I did a BCom and BACC at Wits - passed my CA on the first attempt - and did my articles at Kessel Feinstein.

How many children do you have?

I have three children - Joshua is 22 years old, Nicholas is 16 and Michael is 12.

What is your favourite movie / book?

My favourite movie is ‘Pretty Woman’ and my most enjoyed books are The Harry Potter series.

What do you do in your free time?

I enjoy playing golf, mountain biking, watching series, reading books and spending time with the family.

If there is one thing you wish you invented what would it be?

A machine that transported people instantly thereby rendering the use of current transportation obsolete!

What is your favourite colour?

My favourite colour is orange.
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