International Banking and Finance

This programme is for students wishing to develop skills and understanding of international banking and finance. It aims to help students improve their ability to analyse and solve problems in the context of modern financial markets. For their dissertation topic, students are given the opportunity to take the theoretical knowledge they have gained and apply it to a practical application.

Aims of the programme

• To enable students to become competent and thoughtful practitioners in the field of banking and finance.
• To develop students' reflective, critical and evaluative thinking and judgement and to expose them to contemporary issues in the field through teaching that is strongly supported by research and professional practice.
• To provide an intellectually demanding academic programme of study which emphasises the student's ability to synthesise and evaluate key theoretical concepts and practical applications in the accounting and finance subject area.
• To provide a flexible programme which delivers strong theoretical underpinning in banking and finance through compulsory courses and which enables students to pursue coherently related areas of specialism through chosen areas of academic study through option choices and a dissertation title.

Content

• Financial Management (15 credits)
• Economic Context of Banking (15 credits)
• International Corporate Finance (15 credits)
• European and International Financial Institutions (15 credits)
• International Capital Markets (15 credits)
• Bank Management (15 credits)
• Foundations of Scholarship (15 credits)
• Research Methods (15 credits)
• Dissertation (45 credits)

One option (15 credits) from:

• Accounting and Business Ethics in the Corporate Environment
• Financial Modelling
• Risk Management (MSc only)
• Portfolio Management
• Behavioural Finance
• Micro-Finance in International Development
• Project Finance
• Financial Trading Techniques
• Financial Analysis