Post-Trade, Custody & Securities Operations
Industrialise the back office where the franchise's trust is settled.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Savings targets for post-trade are met every quarter while total cost keeps rising — because each silo optimises itself and the end-to-end process pays the difference. The quiet cost of weak post-trade delivery is paid in capital tied up, deadlines missed and boards that quietly stop believing forecasts. In five days you diagnose a live project in the Data Lab, defend a delivery decision under board pressure, and leave with a blueprint for your own portfolio.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Govern post-trade programmes so they deliver on time, cost and purpose.
- Negotiate post-trade claims and variations from strength, not hope.
- Stress-test post-trade supply chains and operations for resilience, not just cost.
- Read a post-trade programme from its data — schedule, cost and quality signals — before visiting site.
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™
Sixty Claims and an Election Year
A national modernisation at a consumer-goods manufacturer is 40% over budget and 18 months late. The contractor has filed sixty claims; the board must choose between completion, termination for default, or a negotiated reset — before an election year.
Your decision: Choose the path, the commercial posture and the message to government and lenders.
IPAT Data Lab™
The post-trade operation at an infrastructure contractor works hard and improves slowly — the constraint is the system, not the effort.
Dataset: Synthetic throughput, quality and downtime data from an infrastructure contractor.
Your task: Find the constraints, size the productivity levers, and build the control dashboard that predicts, not reports.
A post-trade control dashboard and a lever-sized improvement plan.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the delivery blueprint for your organisation's most important programme: governance, controls, commercial strategy and the first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • Stage-gate delivery governance
- • Earned value management
- • Lean and Six Sigma foundations
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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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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