How to buy a Bank - IT M&A

Name: How to buy a Bank - IT M&A
Rating: 4.1 (7 reviews)

IT, M&A, Integration, Data Migration, Cutover, Infrastructure, Agile, Waterfall, Transactions, Buy, Sell.

Created byPatryk Kones

Last updated 3/2023

English

What you'll learn

What is IT Due Diligence process?
What is the M&A transaction?
What the IT M&A project consists of?
What are the challenges during M&A project?

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 1h 54m total length

Introduction3:41
Please find introduction to the whole course.

See what you can learn and takeaway from course.
How does it work?34:19
During this lecture you will learn basics about integration projects, so:
what is integration project
how does it all start
what are the steps we can have within integration project
how does it end
how long it takes to integrate entities
Organization of M&A11:37
During this lesson we will learn:
how the M&A is organized from IT point of view
what are the management layers & responsibilities
which development approach (Agile vs Waterfall) is best for you
Migration Streams - Data Migration25:23
During this lecture you will learn:
how data migration stream can work
what to focus on
how by example data migration strategy might look like
what is reconciliation toll
why bug fixing will be your main goal
Migration Streams - Cutover20:12
During this lecture you will learn:
what is cutover
why cutover is so important during Integration project
how to organize cutover team and cutover weekend
Migration Streams - Infrastructure19:41
During this lecture you will learn:
how IT infrastructure might be impacted during cutover & right after
what to focus on during infrastructure project
what is penetration testing and which systems should be tested
how to organize performance tests

Requirements

At least basic IT understanding, willingness to learn.

Description

Dear All,

please find course which I have prepared for you. The newest course is about IT M&A transactions but also touching on different aspects of all related activities - like rebranding, TSA or IT Due Diligence process!

I really think you all will enjoy it a lot! I wish this to you as well as to myself.

During course you will learn:

What is IT Due Diligence process, what is this for, what to focus on while doing it or while being under DD process.
What is IT Merge & Acquisition project about,
- what are the key concepts behind
- what is Data Migration stream, what does it consist of, what data migration strategies you may face
- What is Cutover, why its so important to have really good cutover plan along the way
- What are functional gaps, how to identify them and how to approach
- What is TOM (Target Operating Model) and how does it differ from TAL (Target Architecture Landscape)
What are the challenges during integration project, how you can handle them

The course is dedicated to people who are interested in how the transactional projects look like from IT perspective.

Also people from IT background may find a lot of interesting topics which may be seen only during integration project.

Who this course is for:

Course is dedicated to IT people who will be anyhow involved in transactional project.