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AFRICAN FINANCE & ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE
EST. 2026 · JOHANNESBURG
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The Ledger Academy

Learn What the Textbooks Don't Teach

Practitioner-built courses in agricultural credit risk, banking analysis, IFRS 9 provisioning and data science — grounded in real SSA market conditions.

8
Courses
3
Free to Start
4+
Hours of Content
CPD
Points Available

Course Curriculum — 8 Modules

Modules 1–2 Free
01 What Is IFRS 9 and Why It Changed Everything for Banks 28 min
02 Agricultural Credit Risk: What Makes It Different 34 min
03 📄 Staging Criteria in Seasonal Portfolios: The Rules & the Grey Areas 42 min 🔒
04 Building a PD Model for Agri Borrowers: Data Sources & Pitfalls 55 min 🔒
05 ECL Overlays: When Your Model Doesn't Know About Drought 38 min 🔒
06 📊 LGD & Collateral Valuation in Agricultural Portfolios 44 min 🔒
07 Forward-Looking Information: SAFEX, SAWS and Climate Data 36 min 🔒
08 📄 Audit Readiness: Documenting Your ECL Methodology 30 min 🔒

All Courses

Foundational
Agri Finance

Reading an Agricultural Loan Application: A Practitioner's Guide

What to look for beyond the numbers — cashflow seasonality, crop risk, collateral quality and off-balance-sheet exposure.

★★★★★4.9 (128 reviews)
Intermediate
Banking

How to Read a South African Bank AFS in 20 Minutes

A structured framework for quickly extracting the key risk signals from any SA bank's annual financial statement.

★★★★★4.8 (94 reviews)
Advanced
Agri Finance

IFRS 9 Provisioning for Agricultural Credit Portfolios

Full framework: PD estimation, staging, ECL overlays, forward-looking data integration and audit documentation.

★★★★★5.0 (12 reviews)
Foundational
Data Science

Python for Credit Analysts: From Zero to Portfolio Insight

No coding background needed. Build your first credit portfolio analysis tool using pandas, matplotlib and real SA banking data.

★★★★☆4.6 (47 reviews)
Intermediate
Economics

The MPC Decision: How Monetary Policy Flows Into Credit Portfolios

Trace the transmission mechanism from SARB rate decisions through prime, NII, cost of credit and ultimately to NPL ratios.

★★★★★
Coming Q2 2026
Advanced
Banking

Capital Adequacy & CET1: What Every Credit Professional Should Know

Basel III, SARB Pillar 2, internal capital targets and how they constrain lending strategy — explained without jargon.

★★★★★
Coming Q3 2026
Advanced
Data Science

Clustering Agricultural Borrowers: Segmentation Without Assumptions

K-means, hierarchical clustering and behavioural segmentation applied to agri credit portfolios — hands-on with Python.

★★★★★
Coming Q3 2026
Intermediate
Leadership

Running a Credit Committee: Process, Rigour and Culture

From agenda design to decision frameworks — how high-performing banks structure credit approval to catch what individual analysts miss.

★★★★★
Coming Q4 2026

What Practitioners Are Saying

★★★★★

"The IFRS 9 agri course gave me frameworks I could apply to my portfolio the next morning. Nothing academic about it."

SD
S. Dlamini
Agricultural Credit Manager · Land Bank
★★★★★

"Finally a course that understands that SA agri credit is not Kansas. The SSA context makes all the difference."

AO
A. Osei
Credit Risk Analyst · Standard Bank Ghana
★★★★★

"Python for Credit Analysts got me from zero to running my own NPL trend analysis in under a week. Practical and sharp."

KM
K. Mensah
Portfolio Analytics · Nedbank

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