About
Managed credit oversight, from disbursement to maturity.

Basis Partners provides the managed control layer that sits between your credit team and your borrowers. We ensure that borrower performance data, covenant compliance records, watchlist discipline, impairment evidence, and reporting your team needs is always current, structured, and defensible.

Our team has worked across
What we do
We run the credit oversight function so your credit team can run the credit book.

We establish the control framework, maintain it on a structured monthly cycle, and produce the outputs your team needs to act earlier and report with confidence. We work from the information that already exists — credit papers, repayment schedules, covenant trackers, financial statements, and portfolio packs. No new data infrastructure is required before we start.

Our team has worked across IFC, J.P. Morgan, United Nations programmes, National Treasury, and investment funds across Southern Africa.
The difference
How the service is structured.
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A managed control function
We run the monitoring function — the structured, recurring analytical work that keeps your credit oversight current between credit committee meetings and reporting periods. The oversight layer that most credit teams know they need but cannot maintain consistently with existing resource.
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Continuous coverage
Credit oversight requires a consistent inter-period layer. We maintain a monthly cycle — covenant compliance, repayment tracking, watchlist review, impairment evidence build, and exception flagging — so your team is current before every credit committee meeting, not just after the data arrives.
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Evidence-based outputs
Every output we produce is analyst-reviewed and traceable to source data. When your auditor asks about an IFRS 9 staging decision or your LP questions a provisioning position, the evidence is already assembled — not built under the pressure of a question that has already been asked.
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External and independent
Our position external to your fund structure is a deliberate design choice. We flag what the data shows — including early warning signals, covenant pressure, documentation gaps, and watchlist movement — with the consistency that an independent analytical layer provides regardless of internal relationship dynamics.
Credit cycle coverage
From first disbursement to final maturity.

Early post-disbursement. We establish the monitoring baseline — covenant thresholds, repayment schedules, financial performance benchmarks, and document receipt obligations — within the first cycle of a new facility. The control framework is set while the credit basis is still fresh and before the first performance data has arrived.

Active monitoring period. Monthly performance tracking, covenant compliance review, repayment monitoring, watchlist management, early warning signal detection, and document exception tracking. The credit oversight view your team needs without the bandwidth cost of producing it internally at consistent quality.

Impairment and maturity preparation. Continuous IFRS 9 staging evidence build, SICR documentation, ECL support, and audit-ready impairment trails — maintained throughout the credit cycle so the evidence exists before the conversation starts, whether that conversation is at credit committee, with auditors, or with LPs at maturity.

The service
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Covenant compliance, repayment tracking, financial performance, document obligations, collateral status, and management risk — structured and tracked across every borrower in the monitored cohort, each cycle.
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Structured watchlist curation with defined entry and exit criteria, stage migration signals, risk rating review, early warning indicator monitoring across six signal categories, and intervention tracking — maintained on a monthly cycle before deterioration becomes formal.
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IFRS 9 staging evidence, SICR documentation, stage migration tracking, ECL support, forbearance monitoring, and audit-ready impairment trails — built continuously throughout the credit cycle, not assembled when the question is already on the table.
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Monthly credit committee packs, LP and investor reporting, portfolio reviews, watchlist and impairment briefs — prepared as part of the managed service ahead of each deadline, not assembled under deadline pressure by a stretched team.
Start with a borrower diagnostic.