The Ireu School for Finance is the only domain-first finance institution in India whose founding faculty includes a veteran of 7 of the world's top 10 investment banks — with live trading-floor experience across New York, Singapore, Baltimore, Mumbai and Bangalore, and over 50 global finance certifications.
Most finance programs in India are designed by academics who last worked in the sector before UPI existed, before Indian capital markets reached their current depth, and before fintech reshaped every layer of BFSI. The Ireu curriculum is designed by someone who was there.
The gap in Indian finance education is not a shortage of degrees. It is a shortage of professionals who can walk into a deal room, a trading floor, a fintech product team, or a fund office and contribute from day one. This school is built to close that gap.
Thejasvi is a Co-Founder of Ireu Group and the academic architect of the School for Finance. His career spans senior-management roles across seven of the ten most prestigious investment banks in the world — with live trading-floor experience in New York, Singapore, Baltimore, Mumbai and Bangalore.
When a finance school is built by someone who ran money at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, the curriculum is not an approximation of the industry. It is the industry.
Direct experience on desks in New York and Singapore means the Capital Markets, Trading, and Derivatives curriculum reflects what actually happens on a live desk — not what a textbook says. Students learn to think the way trading floors think: fast, quantitative, risk-aware, consequence-oriented.
Having operated inside JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, UBS, Citibank, ANZ and Oracle Financial Services at senior level, the founder understands the full institutional stack — risk, compliance, operations, technology, front office. Students are trained for the trajectory of a senior professional, not just a first role.
The CA, CFA, CS, CMA, FRM, NISM and ACCA preparation tracks built into Ireu programs are designed by someone who has cleared these pathways himself — and who understands exactly what differentiates candidates who pass from those who don't.
The investment bankers, fund managers, trading professionals, risk officers and fintech founders who teach here did not respond to a job listing. They are the professional network built across a career spanning Wall Street, Singapore and India's most active financial centres.
The founder is spearheading Ireu's SEBI-registered AIF Category 2 — a ₹250 crore vehicle investing in Ireu cohort startups. A finance school whose founder is also a fund manager produces graduates who understand both sides of the capital table from day one.
Startup cohorts build companies. Launchpad graduates register and incubate them at IIT Madras. Finance students study the VC/PE/fund mechanics of investing in them. Ireu's ₹250 crore AIF deploys capital into the best of them. Finance graduates go on to the funds and banks that co-invest alongside Ireu.
Finance students here don't study venture capital from a textbook. They study it inside an institution that operates an actual fund — deal sourcing, due diligence, term sheets, portfolio monitoring, LP reporting and exits, taught by people executing them live with real capital at stake.
Through the founder's global network and 200+ industry partners per domain, the school is wired into every category of institutional capital and financial intermediary in India. Graduates are placed into them; students learn inside them.
Public, private, small-finance, payment and cooperative banks, plus NBFCs across consumer lending, MSME finance, vehicle finance, gold lending, microfinance and digital credit.
Indian and global VC funds and PE firms — co-investors alongside Ireu's own AIF. Graduates are trained to work inside VC firms as analysts and associates, or to navigate fundraising as founders.
The institutional network built through the founder's senior roles at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, UBS, Citibank, ANZ and Oracle — one of the strongest IB placement networks in Indian finance education.
India's most active fintechs — payment companies, digital lenders, neobanks, account aggregators, insurtech, wealthtech and embedded-finance providers.
Life, health and general insurers, reinsurers, pension funds, wealth managers, PMS firms, AIFs and family offices — the premium end of India's financial sector.
NSDL, CDSL, NSE, BSE, clearing corporations and market-infrastructure participants — the operational backbone of India's capital markets, a dedicated curriculum track.
Every student chooses a primary domain track on day one. Each track is designed drawing on the founder's experience inside global institutions and continuously updated by 200+ advisory-board partners per domain.
Built from direct IB experience at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, UBS and Citibank. Students work on real Indian deal structures, live models and pitch books.
Built from experience across ANZ, Citibank and Oracle Financial Services. Covers the full operating model of a modern Indian and global commercial bank.
Informed by trading-floor experience in New York and Singapore — equity research, fixed income, derivatives, algo trading, NSDL/CDSL ops and live market mechanics.
India is the world's largest fintech market. Built from Oracle Financial Services architecture experience and 200+ fintech industry partners.
The full insurance value chain from actuarial fundamentals to IRDAI compliance to InsurTech platform design, taught by practitioners from India's most active insurers.
India's mutual-fund AUM has crossed ₹60 lakh crore. Curriculum connected to Ireu's own AIF and the broader investment-management ecosystem.
Designed backwards from what CFOs and FP&A heads actually do — informed by operational experience across the financial functions of global tier-one institutions.
The only VC/PE curriculum in India taught inside an institution that operates an actual SEBI-registered AIF. Students study deal mechanics using live Ireu fund cases.
Informed directly by experience operating within the risk and regulatory frameworks of JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays and UBS at senior level.
The foundation of the Indian financial profession — real GST filings, Ind AS reporting, corporate taxation and the full compliance landscape, with CA/CS/CMA integration.
India's financial-inclusion mandate is one of the largest in the world. Ireu trains MFI leaders, cooperative-banking professionals and NABARD officers across development finance.
Informed by Oracle Financial Services banking-technology experience and Wall Street and Singapore trading-floor environments. Embedded across all 12 tracks.
At most institutions, exam prep is a disconnected add-on attempted after the degree. Ireu builds certification preparation into the academic program from year one — so by graduation a student isn't starting her certification journey, she's well into it.
India's most prestigious accounting qualification — Foundation, Intermediate and Final prep built into B.Com, M.Com and MBA Finance, with active CA practitioners as faculty.
Levels I–III preparation, aligned with the IB and Capital Markets curricula and available alongside MBA, BBA and PGDM Finance.
Company Secretary — Foundation, Executive and Professional. Corporate law, governance and compliance, integrated into B.Com, M.Com and PGDM.
Cost & Management Accountancy across all levels — a strong combination with the Corporate Finance and CFO track.
NISM Series certifications — mandatory for brokerage, AMC and advisory roles. Integrated into the Capital Markets and Investment tracks.
Certified Financial Planner — the gold standard for personal finance and wealth advisory, integrated into Wealth Management tracks.
FRM Parts I and II — highly valued at global banks. Curriculum informed by Basel III experience at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank.
The globally recognised qualification for international finance careers — UK, Middle East and Southeast Asia pathways, supported by Ireu's global network.
Ten levels — from a 30-hour certification to a two-year MBA in Investment Banking, Fintech or Capital Markets — each delivered with the support of 200+ industry partners per domain.
Accounting & Tax, Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, Fintech — CA/CS/CMA integration from year one. India's most recognised UG finance credential, at Wall Street-grade depth.
Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Fintech, Wealth, BFSI — management roles with IB-grade finance skills from day one.
All 12 finance domains — a research-informed four-year UG with an extra year of advanced domain learning. Ireu's strongest undergraduate finance credential.
Banking Ops, Insurance, Financial Services, Fintech — a practice-first credential with strong hands-on learning and immediate employability.
Advanced Accounting, Taxation, Corporate Finance, Financial Reporting — for commerce graduates deepening expertise, with CA/CS/CMA integration and IISc research mentors.
IB, Capital Markets, Fintech, Corporate Finance, Risk, Wealth — full two-year PG with IISc mentor access, advisory-board engagement and senior-track placement.
All 12 finance domains — a one-year intensive PG credential and the fastest path to a domain-ready finance career.
IB, Fintech, Capital Markets, BFSI Leadership — institutional MBA credentials for working professionals, with deep specialisation and IISc certification included.
Banking Ops, Insurance, Fintech Services, Compliance — a practice-heavy PG combining advanced domain knowledge with applied project work and industry immersion.
All 12 finance domains — for working professionals upskilling, career-shifters, or practitioners formalising expertise with an Ireu-branded credential.
Advisory boards, placement networks and curriculum co-creation panels — built from the founder's global banking network and Ireu's active industry relationships across banks, NBFCs, fintechs, asset managers, insurers, venture funds and capital-markets participants.
A graduate here doesn't just study finance — they study a curriculum built by someone who ran it at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Barclays. The industry doesn't have to train them. They arrive ready, with access to the network that trained the trainer.
Deal execution, M&A advisory and ECM/DCM roles at full-service investment banks — the path the lead faculty built across 7 global institutions.
Buy-side and sell-side research at mutual-fund houses, brokerages and investment banks — taught by faculty who operated inside the institutions these roles serve.
Trading roles taught by someone who has operated on trading floors in New York and Singapore — a rare educational advantage in Indian finance.
Product, business and operations roles at India's most active fintechs — or founding the next generation of fintech startups, backed by the Ireu ecosystem and AIF.
Deal sourcing, due diligence and fund operations at Indian VC and PE firms — and inside Ireu's own AIF, with live fund experience unavailable anywhere else.
FP&A, treasury and CFO-track roles at listed companies and growth-stage businesses, informed by senior management experience at global institutions.
Qualified professionals holding both an Ireu domain degree and India's most respected finance certifications — designed by a faculty with 50+ of his own.
Risk management and Basel III compliance roles — curriculum informed by experience inside the risk architectures of JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Barclays.
International roles in Singapore, Dubai, London, Hong Kong and New York — backed by Ireu's international partnerships and a globally networked faculty.
Step 1 — Choose your domain track from twelve specialisations. Step 2 — Choose your program level from ten options. Step 3 — Apply at ireu.education. Every student is matched with a domain-relevant mentor from admission day, with access to the curriculum and network built across a career at 7 global investment banks.
