This module introduces fundamental concepts of economic analysis at both micro and macro level. Microeconomic topics include resource allocation, demand, supply and price, production and costs, market structure, input markets and market failure. Macroeconomics covers inflation, unemployment, economic growth, monetary policy, fiscal policy, foreign exchange, and balance of payments.

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This module provides students with key skills to assist them in their academic study and ensuing prfessional career. These skills include self-management, team work, leadership and influencing, negotiation, self awareness of strengths and weaknesses, career planning, communication (written, oral), and proficiency of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, VBA or Python and selected financial databases.

The module provides an overview of the financial services industry institutions and their role, the risks they face, the need for a legal and regulatory framework, ethical theories, banker-customer relationship, duties to clients and employers, insolvency, professional behaviour and ethical dilemmas, conflicts of interest, insider dealing, money laundering, tax legislation and internal corruption.

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This module exposes students to the key topics in Finance including the time value of money with applications to valuation, portfolio theory and the risk-return concept, efficient markets and behavioural finance, and corporate governance, stewardship and agency. The module also provides an overview of financial markets and instruments, notably bonds, equities, and derivatives.

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This module introduces basic financial and management accounting techniques used in business decision‐making. Financial accounting topics include recording of transactions, preparation of financial statements, and interpretation of financial accounting data. Management accounting topics cover overheads, relevant costing and approaches, cash flows, and budgeting.

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This module provides an understanding and application of numerical techniques used in finance. The first part covers maths - basic algebra and calculus, while the second part covers statistics - collecting and summarising data, Index numbers, probability and selected distributions, sampling, estimation and hypothesis testing, correlation, simple linear regression and forecasting. The module makes use of VBA or Python and statistical/econometrics packages.

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This module provides an understanding of commercial and corporate banking and the products and services that they offer, with a focus on managing the relationship between the financial institution and its MSME and corporate clients, including both legal and practical aspects, as well as bank lending techniques and marketing, credit analysis, how to mitigate risks, and what happens when things go wrong (bad debts, insolvency).

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This module discusses the different types of derivative instruments, characteristics, pricing, and hedging, comprising forwards, futures, options and swaps.

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This module examines the various decisions faced by financial managers, including investment, financing, and dividend policies, as well as more complex themes such as company valuation, strategic advice, and event studies.

This module provides an understanding of retail banking and the products and services that they market to consumers and small enterprises, with a focus on how to effectively manage retail customer relationships, credit assessment, risk, pricing, monitoring, legal and practical aspects, as well as some contemporary issues such as the impact of innovation in digital banking technologies and the rise of challenger retail banks’ offerings.

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This module provides an application of statistical and econometric methods to a range of problems in banking and finance. Topics include a review of sampling, estimation and simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, non-linear relationships, dummy variables, model specification, failure of regression assumptions, limited dependent variables, time-series, non-stationarity and panel data. The module makes use of VBA or Python and statistical/econometrics packages.

This module develops the knowledge and understanding of financial accounting and accounting information within recognised accounting standards and legal requirements. The focus is on principal financial statements, financial reporting systems and quality, analysis of tangibles, inventories, long-lived assets, taxes, debt, off-balance-sheet assets and liabilities and share capital.

This module provides an overview of economic, financial, political, legal, technological, socio-cultural issues and ethical issues pertaining to doing business in emerging markets, focusing on characteristics, development stage and growth, currency, international capital flows, Islamic finance, crises and contagion.

This module discusses one key innovation in finance, financial technologies, namely the development of e-commerce, alongside other modern technologies like social media, the importance of disintermediation, the rise of Challengers, peer to peer platforms (P2P), Crowdfunding, cryptography, cryptocurrency (e.g., bitcoin), blockchain, big data, cybersecurity, RegTech, and ultimately a potentially cashless society. This module is taught as a combination of workshops and guest speakers from the industry.

This module covers the main sources of financial risk in a financial institution as well as risk measurement, monitoring and management, and explores the optimum funding mix for banks, funding risk, and how to structure that funding mix. Topics include bank funding strategy, asset-liability management (ALM) trading and hedging principles, liquidity risk management, credit risk, enterprise risk, market risk, operational risk, interest rate risk, currency risk, systemic risk, technological risk, and regulatory risk including compliance with prudential regulation.

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This module examines international corporate finance within the context of managing a multinational corporation and controlling international operations, including international sources and investment of funds, identification of corporate foreign exchange risks, tax legislation and transfer pricing, and ethical issues.

This module covers key principles underlying strategic and management challenges facing banks today and in the future, including an understanding of why banks may be similar or behave quite differently depending on their home (headquarters) or host (operating) country, how banks choose businesses (sectors; countries) to operate in, and why they change them, impact of law and regulation changes, as well as cultural conflicts inherent in strategy, management and risk taking by banks.

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This module covers financial- and strategic-related client advice, comprising raising financial capital, underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring (including ring-fencing), as well as an overview of services such as market making, derivatives and equity securities trading, and FICC services (fixed income instruments, currencies, and commodities).

This module provides an overview of alternative investments beyond the traditional investment portfolios (equities and bonds). The focus is on vehicles, methods and industries, including Hedge Funds, Commodities, Real Estate, Energy, Distressed Securities and Private Equity.

This module consists of a 5,000 – 6,000, independent, research-based project, which encapsulates learning acquired in the degree as well as work-based, involving collection, interpretation, analysis and presentation of information and data. The module includes sessions on research framework, namely planning, research objectives and questions, literature review, data collection, ethical issues, methodology, analysis and write-up.

This module examines the goals and key elements in corporate strategy formulation and implementation, with a focus on core business definition, internal and external environment and peers’ strategy.

This module provides an overview of private equity and venture capital, including deal-making, fund raising, venture valuation, investment exits, innovation outputs, corporate governance, and ethical issues.