Risk, Compliance & Data Management

The answer is already inside your data.

Stats & Data Management Solutions is a boutique consultancy helping people, companies and public services uncover the information hidden in their data — so leaders can act with greater clarity, control and confidence. We build the models, pipelines and regulatory reporting that turn what your organisation already collects into decisions you can defend — to your board, your auditor and your regulator.

20+ YearsIndustry Experience

Namibia BasedServing SADC & Beyond

Trusted AdvisorProven Track Record

Solutions built for organisations across multiple industries

Financial Services

Consulting

Manufacturing

Service Providers

Mining

Public Sector

Why work with Stats & Data

Better questions. Better data. Better decisions.

We bridge strategy, data and operational reality — without losing sight of the people who must use the information.

Decision-ready insight

Translate raw, disconnected data into useful intelligence, management information and evidence for action.

End-to-end data thinking

Connect business questions to architecture, data engineering, warehouses, analytics and sustainable processes.

Control & compliance

Strengthen AML/KYC, regulatory reporting, auditing and governance with a practical data-led perspective.

Services

From raw records to a decision you can sign off on.

AML/KYC & Regulatory Compliance Solutions

Implementation, review and optimisation of anti-money-laundering, KYC and sanctions-screening compliance platforms (including the FICO/Tonbeller Siron suite and NICE Actimize CDD/SAM-R), covering scenario tuning, data-supply gap analysis and staff training.
Client Segmentation, Statistical & Survey Analysis

Development of statistical client-segmentation models, and design, administration and statistical evaluation of structured survey research.
Core Banking Migration & Business Requirements Support

Business requirements analysis, user acceptance testing and quality assurance for core banking system enhancements and migrations, including cross-system data consolidation for single-customer-view reporting.
Credit Risk Modelling & IFRS9/Basel II Advisory

Development and testing of statistical credit risk models under the Basel II Internal Ratings-Based approach and IFRS9/IAS39 impairment methodology, including loss-parameter estimation and stress testing.
Data Quality Management & Remediation

Design and deployment of automated data-quality monitoring systems, bulk data cleansing and correction with full audit-trail traceability, and web-based exception-approval workflows with role-based access control.
ETL, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Reporting

Design and administration of ETL pipelines and data warehouses, and delivery of automated KPI and executive reporting from core banking, compliance and risk systems.
Project Management & Solutions Architecture

End-to-end project management and solutions architecture for technology implementations, from requirements analysis through rollout, budget and timeline delivery.
Regulatory Transaction Reporting (goAML)

Gap analysis and implementation support for automated and manual regulatory transaction reporting in the goAML XML format, including integration with existing AML compliance solutions and central-bank reporting requirements.
Transaction Monitoring & Financial Crime Analytics

Design and implementation of transaction-monitoring solutions that detect unusual customer activity by comparing short- and long-term financial behaviour, including account profiling and alert-development support for industry-standard monitoring platforms.

About

Most organisations
are not short of data.

Established in 2005 in Namibia, Stats & Data Management Solutions is a closed corporation providing specialised advisory and consulting services to the financial industry and other sectors across Namibia, the SADC region and beyond.

We combine domain expertise, data insight and practical implementation to help organisations strengthen compliance, manage risk and achieve their strategic objectives.

Our role is to connect the dots: clarify the question, understand the process, examine the data, design the right solution and help turn insight into action.

Independent, practical advisory perspective
Business-first approach to technology and data
Strong focus on usable outcomes and knowledge transfer
Cross-border perspective across Namibia, SADC and beyond

What makes us different

You get the senior person

The consultant who scopes your work is the consultant who does it. No pitch team followed by a bench of juniors learning on your budget.

Business and technology in one head

The unique combination of business and technology expertise in one person.

Built for handover from day one

Documentation, lineage and training are written into the scope. Our success measure is your team running the system without us.

Our Approach

Delivering value at every step.

Every engagement — large or small — follows the same disciplined process, whether we’re implementing an AML system, reviewing a data warehouse, or supporting a regulatory audit.

Understand

Deep dive into your business, data and regulatory context.

Analyse

Identify gaps, risks and opportunities.

Design

Create practical, data-driven solutions.

Implement

Build, test and integrate with precision.

Support

Provide ongoing support and continuous improvement.

Founder

The face behind Stats & Data.

Principal Consultant

Olaf Reetz

Olaf founded Stats & Data Management Solutions to offer banks and insurers the same calibre of AML/KYC, credit risk and data-quality work he has delivered for more than twenty years inside financial institutions in Namibia and beyond — without the overheads of a large firm.

Education

Diplom-Kaufmann

University of Hamburg · Comparable to a BCom Honours.

Statistics, Applied Bank Management, Operational Data Processing, Economics.

Certifications

Certified Business Consultant, Siron AMLFICO / Tonbeller
MCSA, SQL ServerMicrosoft
Advanced Credit Risk WorkshopStrategic Executive Programs
Risk Management & Basel II TrainingEuromoney Training EMEA

Languages

EnglishFluent
GermanFluent
FrenchBasic

Representative engagements

The shape of the work.

AML/KYC & Regulatory Compliance Solutions
- A banking group operating across several Southern and East African markets — Reviewed and documented the group’s AML and KYC compliance solutions across its subsidiaries, delivered online training to local IT and business teams, and supported sanction-list updates and input-file scoring backlogs.
- A banking group with an asset-management subsidiary — Conducted a comprehensive review and revision of the group’s anti-money-laundering solution, covering customer categories, scenarios and data supplies, and produced a supporting gap analysis.
Client Segmentation, Statistical & Survey Analysis
- A commercial bank — Developed a client segmentation model covering a customer base of approximately 100,000–250,000, based on income contribution.
- An academic research project (pro bono) — Co-designed a structured survey questionnaire distributed across industry establishments, then captured and statistically evaluated the resulting data to support the study’s findings.
Core Banking Migration & Business Requirements Support
- A commercial bank — Compiled business requirements and led user acceptance testing and quality assurance for core banking system bug fixes and enhancements, and constructed a consolidated single-customer-view dataset across core banking, case management, card management and compliance systems.
Credit Risk Modelling & IFRS9/Basel II Advisory
- A commercial bank — Directed the data architecture and ETL build for an IFRS9 impairment model (replacing the prior IAS39 standard), including statistical testing of probability-of-default and loss-given-default parameters, with the process later extended to group level.
- A commercial bank — Built a stochastic credit risk model under the Basel II Internal Ratings-Based approach, applied to the bank’s loan book to quantify expected and unexpected loss, and developed stress-test models assessing the impact of annual fee and charge increases.
Data Quality Management & Remediation
- A commercial bank — Designed and implemented a suite of data-quality monitoring systems that raised KYC data completeness from 24% to 75% over four years, and identified incorrectly waived and modified customer charges recovering approximately N$650,000 and N$2 million respectively per year, supported by a web-based exception-approval workflow with full role-based access control and audit trails.
- A commercial bank — Designed and rolled out data-quality monitoring systems safeguarding home-loan collateral cover and KYC/FIA data completeness feeding into a client risk-rating engine.
ETL, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Reporting
- A commercial bank — Engineered and deployed automated daily and monthly ETL processes consolidating client, product and transactional data into KPI and statistical reporting delivered to business users via Excel and SQL reports.
- A commercial bank — Built and administered a data warehouse with daily calculations of customer financial KPIs and statistics, feeding both automated monitoring systems and executive management reporting.
Project Management & Solutions Architecture
- An education-sector client — Managed and directed the development, implementation and rollout of a web-based e-learning platform with e-commerce functionality, delivering project outcomes within timeline and budget.
Regulatory Transaction Reporting (goAML)
- An international analytics and compliance software provider — Documented data requirements and data-mapping to implement automated goAML regulatory reporting for the foreign offices of a major international bank across five countries.
- A development finance institution — Performed a gap analysis between as-is and to-be data supply to integrate a regulatory-reporting module into an existing AML compliance solution, enabling automated and manual goAML transaction reporting.
Transaction Monitoring & Financial Crime Analytics
- A banking group — Directed the architecture, build and rollout of a web-based transaction-monitoring solution screening approximately 300,000–500,000 transactions per day, with a web-based interface for compliance teams to manage and classify detected alerts.
- A commercial bank — Constructed ETL processes and long-term development reporting for a transaction-monitoring alert platform, and created account profiles based on historical transaction behaviour to support ongoing rule development.

A selection of engagements delivered across the services above. Client names are withheld for confidentiality; scope and outcomes are described as delivered. Detailed references available on request under NDA.