Development Finance & Blended Capital
DFIs, blended finance, guarantees, and structuring bankable infrastructure and impact deals.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Growth in development finance keeps arriving through channels the institution does not fully control — and supervision is asking questions your reporting cannot yet answer. Executives who cannot read the unit economics of development finance end up defending yesterday's business model with yesterday's numbers. The programme teaches the operator's craft in development finance: reading capital, liquidity and unit economics so the next decision is yours, not your vendor's.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Diagnose where your institution creates — and destroys — value in development finance across the balance sheet.
- Present a development finance position to boards and supervisors with evidence they will accept.
- Read the economics of development finance like an operator: unit costs, network effects and risk-adjusted return.
- Sequence a development finance transformation agenda that a board will fund and a regulator will endorse.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Partnership With Two Ledgers
A pan-African insurer has signed a fintech partnership in development finance: revenue is shared one way in the contract and recognised another way in the books, and the partner’s conduct is now a supervisory topic. Nobody has reconciled the two ledgers since launch.
Your decision: Renegotiate, ring-fence, or exit the development finance partnership — before the supervisor reconciles them for you.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a development finance institution cannot see where its book is quietly deteriorating.
Dataset: Synthetic loan-book panel for a development finance institution: 80,000 facilities across segments with vintage and behaviour data.
Your task: Segment the portfolio, find concentration and deterioration, and design the repricing and workout response.
A portfolio decision pack presented to the faculty credit committee.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Produce a digital finance transformation strategy for your institution: where to play, what to own, which partnerships, and the regulatory posture required.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Decision Intelligence Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Value-chain decomposition
- • Risk-adjusted performance measurement (RAROC)
- • Basel-aligned capital and liquidity concepts
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
New dates are being scheduled
Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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