Faizel Jeena

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Head of risk support, prudential authority

Biography

Faizel Jeena has over 25 years of experience in banking and finance. He has held a number of roles in the banking sector and as a prudential regulator and supervisor of banks and insurers. He is the Head of the Risk Support Department in the Prudential Authority and has held this role since the Prudential Authority has been established. The Risk Support Department is responsible for providing regulatory, supervisory support and technical expertise on all prudential risk types for insurance, banking and market infrastructures. It also provides quantitative analysis, actuarial analysis and financial institution statistics used in the Prudential Authority. Faizel has represented the South African Reserve Bank at a number of Basel Committee working groups and is currently the South African representative on the Policy and Development Committee of the IAIS and the Risks and Vulnerabilities Assessment Group under the Basel Committee. He is a Chartered Accountant by training and holds the degrees of Bachelor of Commerce (Law) and Bachelor of Accountancy