SCIPIO ACADEMY / SIGNATURE
IT Post-Merger Integration in Banking
Design the integration. Control cost and risk.
Shape a bank’s IT integration through a realistic case, interactive decisions and focused expert coaching. Learn at your own pace, with AI and modern banking platforms woven into the work.
THE SIGNATURE STANDARD
Build your judgement on real project experience.
Built from hands-on banking integration experience, curated into practical decisions, selected working materials and focused expert coaching.
Banking decisions, in context.
Work with core platforms, payments, customer data and service continuity. Follow the dependencies that connect them.
Independent learning. Expert perspective.
Practise at your own pace, then bring your blueprint and questions to a specialist in banking integration.
Useful materials. A clear purpose.
Develop six decision templates into one integration blueprint you can adapt to your responsibilities.
The programme develops your ability to shape and challenge an integration, with AI and modern operating environments addressed throughout.
Explore the collectionYOUR LEARNING OUTCOMES
What you will be able to do.
Integration and transformation leaders, directors, VPs and senior banking professionals taking responsibility across technology workstreams.
- Translate the deal rationale into IT priorities, ownership and a realistic cost envelope.
- Defend platform choices and a migration sequence that protects banking services.
- Challenge readiness evidence, AI outputs and the assumptions behind the savings.
Your own integration blueprint: the mandate, platform choices, Day 1 plan, migration roadmap, readiness assessment and benefits scorecard.
IN PRACTICE
Two banks. One integration to lead.
A retail and commercial bank has acquired a competitor. Their core platforms, customer records and payment interfaces differ. The sponsor wants early savings; operations must preserve service continuity. You need a plan that accounts for both.
Build an individual integration blueprint. As the evidence changes, revise your decisions and explain the impact on customers, risk, cost and timing.
Illustrative learning scenario.
TRY A PROGRAMME EXERCISE
Would you approve the migration?
The programme report says “ready”. You have three pieces of evidence and a decision to make.
A short fictional case · Authored feedback · No specialist software needed
ReconciliationException unresolved
Account totals match at bank level, but 27 individual account balances do not reconcile. The cause has not been established. The case requires every exception to be resolved or explicitly accepted by the accountable business owner.
PaymentsEvidence incomplete
Individual application tests passed. The complete payment journey through the target core platform and clearing interface has not been tested. The agreed readiness criteria require this end-to-end evidence.
ContingencyOwnership missing
A recovery procedure has been drafted, but no decision owner or invocation threshold is named. The agreed criteria require an accountable owner and a rehearsed recovery plan before migration.
Illustrative AI summary: “Balances reconcile and application tests passed. The migration is ready.” Check that summary against the underlying evidence.
CURRICULUM
Your learning path.
6 modules · Individual final case · Learn at your own pace
01Define the integration mandate
Connect the deal rationale, IT due diligence, scope and value assumptions. Separate evidence from inference when using AI to review information.
In practice: Triage a fictional diligence pack and identify the decisions that need an owner.
Your output: Integration mandate and value/risk brief.
Approximately 2 hours
02Choose the target landscape
Compare core banking, payments, customer-data and reporting platforms. Weigh coexistence, migration and modernisation, including inherited cloud and AI services.
In practice: Compare platform options against business, cost and risk criteria.
Your output: Architecture decision paper.
Approximately 3 hours
03Organise the programme and protect Day 1
Set decision rights, workstream ownership and supplier responsibilities. Plan essential services, temporary arrangements, people and escalation.
In practice: Resolve competing Day 1 priorities and assign accountable owners.
Your output: Day 1 readiness and governance plan.
Approximately 3 hours
04Design data migration and the roadmap
Sequence customer or product waves around interfaces, data quality, resources and costs. Validate AI-assisted mappings and retain a traceable evidence trail.
In practice: Revise the migration sequence when a dependency or capacity assumption changes.
Your output: Integrated roadmap and cost envelope.
Approximately 3 hours
05Test readiness and make the go-live decision
Examine reconciliation, end-to-end tests, rehearsals, defects and contingency plans. Establish who can accept risk and what the decision requires.
In practice: Challenge a positive status report and make an evidence-based go/no-go recommendation.
Your output: Readiness assessment and decision record.
Approximately 3 hours
06Deliver value and close the integration
Track dual-running costs, legacy retirement and realised savings. Set the evidence and ownership needed for stabilisation, handover and closure.
In practice: Adjust the benefits forecast when a decommissioning milestone slips.
Your output: Benefits and closure scorecard.
Approximately 2 hours
YOUR FINAL CASE
Defend your integration blueprint.
Combine your six working outputs into an individual integration blueprint and executive recommendation. Allow approximately three hours for the final case.
THE EXPERIENCE
Your pace. An expert perspective.
100% onlineNo in-person attendance required.
Mainly self-paced, with approximately 18–22 hours of learning and case work. Includes one 45-minute expert coaching session, a written review of your final blueprint and one revision check.
Work through the case yourself.
Short explanations, worked examples and interactive decisions. Compare the reasoning, revise your response and continue when you are ready.
One 45-minute expert session.
Meet a banking integration specialist online. Bring your attempted final case and specific questions; book the session around your learning progress.
Written review + one revision check.
Receive concise feedback on your integration blueprint, make improvements and submit one revision for a final check.
Your invitation confirms the expert, booking arrangements and support included. Coaching focuses on the learning case.
ABOUT YOUR APPLICATION
Before you apply.
Are courses delivered online?
Course materials, exercises and any included coaching or live sessions are delivered online. No in-person attendance required.
Each programme specifies its pace and included support. Your invitation confirms any scheduled sessions and their timing.
Can I learn at my own pace?
Yes. The core programme is self-paced. Plan approximately 18–22 hours, with four to six weeks as a suggested rhythm. The planned access period is six months; no weekly live attendance is required.
What expert support is included?
One 45-minute individual coaching session after you attempt the final case, a concise written review of your blueprint and one revision check. The coaching focuses on your learning and case decisions. Your invitation confirms the expert, booking process and availability.
How does AI feature in the programme?
Use AI to assist evidence review, data-mapping proposals and test design, then check its outputs. You also consider inherited models, agents, data pipelines and supplier dependencies when designing the target landscape.
What materials can I take into my work?
Six selected decision templates, worked examples and your own integration blueprint. The full practitioner repository and detailed execution runbooks are not included. Your invitation confirms the terms for internal use.
Do I need to be a software developer?
No. The programme assumes familiarity with banking operations and technology projects. It focuses on integration design, governance and leadership judgment, with the technical context needed to challenge delivery assumptions.
What makes the Signature Collection different?
Built from hands-on banking integration experience, curated into practical decisions, selected working materials and focused expert coaching.
The programme develops your ability to shape and challenge an integration, with AI and modern operating environments addressed throughout. Cases, exercises and expert review help you turn that experience into decisions and materials for your own company.
Can I use the materials in my own organisation?
Yes. The working materials are designed for you to adapt to your own transformation efforts. In this programme, you develop: Your own integration blueprint: the mandate, platform choices, Day 1 plan, migration roadmap, readiness assessment and benefits scorecard.
Your invitation will confirm the materials included and the terms for internal use. Redistribution or resale is not included.
How does this compare with consulting?
If your priority is to build your own capability, Signature gives you access to engagement know-how without commissioning a full consulting project. Learn to lead more of the work internally and make sharper decisions about where external expertise is needed.
The programme provides learning, feedback and working materials. A bespoke advisory engagement or delivery team would be a separate service.
Why do I need to apply?
We review your background and any goals or motivation you choose to share to assess programme fit. There is no payment when you apply.
How do intakes work?
We welcome new participants in intakes over time. Apply for access and we will email you when the next intake opens for this programme.
When can I start?
We will confirm the start date, what is included and the fee when we invite you to join. You can then decide whether to take part. Applying does not give you immediate course access.
What does the fee cover?
Mainly self-paced, with approximately 18–22 hours of learning and case work. Includes one 45-minute expert coaching session, a written review of your final blueprint and one revision check. The €3,450 shown is an estimated fee per person. We will confirm what is included, the final price and any applicable taxes before you decide to join.
Will I receive a certificate?
Your invitation will explain what you need to complete, how your work will be assessed and whether the programme includes a certificate. Any Academy certificate is separate from an accredited academic qualification.
Who is behind the Academy?
Scipio Academy curates this programme from banking integration experience. Your invitation confirms the banking integration experts who teach, coach and review your work.
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