Scale-Up Finance: From Series A to IPO
Finance the growth curve from venture rounds to the listing bell.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Your scale-up finance numbers satisfy the regulator but not the market: margins compress, deposits migrate, and the cost-to-income ratio drifts the wrong way. The institutions being repriced slowest are the ones that mistake technology adoption for strategy. This programme gives you the economics, the architecture and the governance to lead scale-up finance as strategy rather than scramble behind it.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Read the economics of scale-up finance like an operator: unit costs, network effects and risk-adjusted return.
- Present a scale-up finance position to boards and supervisors with evidence they will accept.
- Diagnose where your institution creates — and destroys — value in scale-up finance across the balance sheet.
- Stress-test scale-up finance strategy against rate, FX and credit scenarios before the board or the supervisor does.
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 scale-up 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 scale-up finance partnership — before the supervisor reconciles them for you.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a tier-two African bank cannot see where its book is quietly deteriorating.
Dataset: Synthetic loan-book panel for a tier-two African bank: 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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