New Sustainable Finance Products
Equip product, risk, and origination teams to design, price, and launch green, blended, and sustainability-linked products.
Development and commercial banks
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Capability building for the people who finance and build Africa.
Practical, practitioner-led programmes for development banks, commercial banks, funds, and corporate teams, designed and delivered by people who have prepared, structured and financed transformative investments. We turn frameworks into capability your teams can use the next morning.
Beyond bespoke advisory, we build capability that stays inside the institution.
Most training tells teams what good looks like. Ours shows them how to do it, using the same models, structures, and judgement we use on live mandates. The result is not a certificate, it is a team that can prepare a bankable project, price a sustainable-finance product, or put AI to work, without us in the room.
We work two ways: with the institutions that finance Africa, development banks, commercial banks, funds, and DFIs, on the technical craft of preparing, structuring, and growing investments; and with corporate teams, on the strategy and digital capability they need to compete. Every programme is built for the room it is delivered to.
Capability that stays in the room
Every programme is taught by practitioners who structure, finance, and grow the deals they teach, using the same models and judgement we bring to live mandates. The measure of success is not the workshop, it is what your team can do without us the next morning.
Programmes
Programmes built around what the work demands.
Our curriculum mirrors our advisory priorities, so the people we teach and the deals we advise on draw on the same expertise.
Rethinking Project & Structured Finance Practices
The structuring, modelling, risk allocation, and lender packaging that move infrastructure and energy transactions to financial close.
Banks, national development banks, and sponsors
SME Growth in the AI Age
Help SMEs, and the institutions that back them, use digital and AI tools to grow and thrive.
SMEs, banks, and programmes
Making ESG Strategy Work for the Business
Move ESG from a compliance exercise to a source of commercial value, with strategy a leadership team can actually execute.
Corporate and institutional leadership
Building the Pipeline Upstream
Build the in-house capability to prepare bankable projects, working hand in hand with sponsors at an early stage.
national development banks and project teams
Who we work with
- Development and commercial banksProduct, risk, origination, and investment teams
- DFIs and fundsInvestment officers, portfolio and credit teams
- Corporate teamsStrategy, finance, and transformation leadership
- Programmes and SMEsCapacity building linked to major investment programmes
How we deliver
- In-house cohortsTailored to your portfolio, your products, and your market
- Executive workshopsFocused sessions for leadership and boards
- Multi-day programmesStructured curricula with live cases and tools
- Virtual or in personDelivered across Anglophone and Francophone Africa
Build the capability your next chapter needs.
Tell us the team, the gap, and the outcome you want, and we will design the programme around it.
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