Syndicated Lending & Club Deals in African Markets
Structure multi-bank facilities where the risks are shared honestly.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The syndicated lending agenda is stuck between two truths: the strategy deck says transform, and the income statement says the legacy book still pays the salaries. A mispriced syndicated lending decision does not show up in one quarter; it shows up in your cost of funding for the next five years. The programme teaches the operator's craft in syndicated lending: 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 syndicated lending across the balance sheet.
- Present a syndicated lending position to boards and supervisors with evidence they will accept.
- Read the economics of syndicated lending like an operator: unit costs, network effects and risk-adjusted return.
- Sequence a syndicated lending 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 Margin That Walked
The most profitable product at a tier-two African bank has quietly migrated to instant-payment rails the institution does not own; deposits follow the customer, not the branch. The board wants a response before the next pricing cycle — and the syndicated lending data is contested in every committee.
Your decision: Build competing rails, partner with the platform, or reprice the legacy book to defend margin — each path changes the institution you become.
IPAT Data Lab™
The syndicated lending unit economics at a development finance institution work in the business case and fail in the ledger.
Dataset: Synthetic product-level revenue, cost and capital data for a development finance institution.
Your task: Rebuild the unit economics, stress them against rate and funding shocks, and recommend what to scale or exit.
A stress-tested syndicated lending economics model and a board-grade summary page.
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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