MSc in Global Banking & Finance

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MSc in Global Banking & Finance

Regent's American College London
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Overview

Efficient, well-functioning financial markets lie at the heart of every successful modern economy. Bankers and financiers are a vital part of the corporate life cycle.

Banking has always been tightly regulated, but in recent years the industry has undergone big changes in many parts of the world. The trends towards privatisation and globalisation of the financial industry have forced mergers and restructurings. 

The MSc in Global Banking & Finance offers a rigorous academic and practical training in finance. It will ensure that you are up to date with the latest developments in the industry, set within a practical business context.

Programme Aims

The course offers:

  • Essential…

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Overview

Efficient, well-functioning financial markets lie at the heart of every successful modern economy. Bankers and financiers are a vital part of the corporate life cycle.

Banking has always been tightly regulated, but in recent years the industry has undergone big changes in many parts of the world. The trends towards privatisation and globalisation of the financial industry have forced mergers and restructurings. 

The MSc in Global Banking & Finance offers a rigorous academic and practical training in finance. It will ensure that you are up to date with the latest developments in the industry, set within a practical business context.

Programme Aims

The course offers:

  • Essential preparation for a career in the financial world
  • Training in the academic discipline of finance within a global business context
  • Rigorous, critical analysis of issues in banking and financial markets
  • An understanding of the interaction between finance and international financial services, international business and financial economics in the public and private sectors

Completing this programme, will equip you with:

  • The essential analytical skills and techniques to tackle problems in the complex world of global finance and banking
  • The ability to prepare and implement findings directed at the evaluation of corporate, market, investment and risk management situations
  • Business and inter-cultural skills related to the professional workplace in an international context

Programme Features

  • A multidisciplinary and integrative curriculum reinforcing the strategic and international dimensions of global banking and finance
  • Regular lectures, workshops and seminars by specialist practitioners from the corporate financial world
  • Close working within multi-lingual and culturally diverse student teams
  • Small class sizes and individual attention from staff who combine academic credentials with varied, real-world market experience
  • Proactive careers guidance and support

Programme Outline

This is a full-time programme, covering three semesters. You will complete seven core (mandatory) modules, one module of your choice (elective module) and a dissertation.

Semesters 1 and 2

Core Modules

  • Bank Risk Management
  • Banking Regulation
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation
  • Investment Analysis
  • Monetary Policy and Central Bank Operations
  • Research Methods

Elective Modules

Choose ONE of the following:

  • Alternative Investments
  • Bond Market Strategies
  • Financial Engineering
  • Microfinance
  • Trading in Global Financial Markets

Semester 3

  • Dissertation
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