Investment Banking Value Streams
Thirty-seven pre-built investment banking value streams covering origination, deal execution, syndication, research, the trade lifecycle and conflicts clearance, in editable PowerPoint with a guide.
About This Value Stream Collection
Deal Teams Improvise. The Bank Around Them Cannot.
Investment Banking Value Streams is a set of 37 pre-built flows covering how work moves through an investment bank — pitch to signed mandate, mandate to closed transaction, book to allocated deal, trade to settled position — in editable PowerPoint, with a guide to putting them to use.
Every deal is different, and bankers are right to say so. But the bank wrapped around the deal is not: conflicts clearance, KYC, commitment committee, documentation, allocation, settlement and revenue recognition run the same way whether the transaction is unusual or routine.
That distinction is where investment banks lose the argument about process. Attempting to standardize the deal fails and deserves to. Leaving the surrounding machinery undocumented means every deal team rediscovers it, and the control steps — the wall crossing, the conflicts check, the committee approval — become things people remember rather than things the flow requires.
These 37 flows are drawn around the machinery. They are broken into steps rather than shown as a deal timeline, so a team can mark ownership across coverage, product, control and operations, and identify where a control step depends on somebody remembering it.
What a Deal Timeline Does Not Capture
Timelines describe one transaction. These questions are about the hundred around it.
Where do the control steps actually sit? Conflicts clearance, wall crossing and committee approval are obligations before they are steps in anyone's workflow. Flows make them steps, which is the only form in which they can be assured.
What does onboarding a counterparty really take? KYC and documentation routinely become the critical path on a live transaction. Mapping them separates the parts that could have started earlier from the parts that could not.
Where does the pipeline actually stall? Pipeline reviews describe deals; they do not describe the step each deal is stuck in. The second is actionable and the first is not.
Why This Matters Now
Cost pressure and supervisory expectation are converging on the same undocumented machinery.
Middle and Back Office Cost Is Under Scrutiny
Front-office headcount is defended by revenue attribution. Everything behind it has to justify itself by what it does, and the only credible justification is a documented set of steps.
Control Steps Are Expected to Be Evidenced
Supervisors increasingly want to see that information barriers and conflicts processes operate, not that they are written down as policy. Steps are what get evidenced.
Settlement Cycles Keep Compressing
Each shortening of the settlement cycle removes slack from specific affirmation and allocation steps. Banks that mapped them adjust; the rest add night shifts.
The core deliverablesWhat Is Included
Two files:
Who This Is Built For
These flows pair with the Investment Banking Capability Model, which states what the bank does; the value streams state in what order and under whose authority. Neither substitutes for the other.
How to Put It to Work
- Turn control obligations into steps with named owners rather than policy references.
- Identify which onboarding steps can begin before a mandate is signed.
- Mark the steps that lost slack when the settlement cycle shortened.
- Use the flows as the scope document for a middle-office cost review.
Where Banks Typically Start
Evidencing information barriers. Show conflicts and wall-crossing as operating steps rather than as a policy document.
Taking KYC off the critical path. Separate what genuinely needs the mandate from what could have run in parallel.
Reviewing middle-office cost. Scope the review against the steps performed rather than the teams that exist.
Onboarding a new business manager. Hand over a map instead of a tour of the desks.
What You Are Actually Buying Is Time
Mapping 37 flows internally means weeks of sessions with people whose time is billed against live transactions. Most of what emerges is common to every bank of comparable shape.
- You edit rather than originate. The flows are drafted; your effort goes to your product mix, your committee structure, and your control environment.
- Reviewers get something to correct. A business manager corrects a wrong map far faster than they reconstruct a right one from memory.
- It stays useful. The same flows serve a control assessment, a cost review, and a platform change.
Sessions across coverage, product, control and operations, competing with live deals.
A consulting engagement producing a comparable flow set.
Immediate download. Editable. Begin marking it up the same day.
Those first two columns describe what comparable efforts tend to involve, not a quoted benchmark — your figures depend on scope and who does the work.
Built From Real Engagements
We are software entrepreneurs and business consultants who have delivered business architecture and transformation work across financial services firms. These flows are the distilled, reusable output of that work rather than a theoretical exercise — which is also why they carry the limits described below.
Read before you buyAn Honest Note on Fit
These are generic flows designed as a starting point. Customization is expected, not a sign that something went wrong.
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What's Included
At a Glance
- 37 investment banking value streams (PowerPoint, editable)
- Origination and execution through syndication and settlement
- Bonus: A Guide to Value Streams (PDF)
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